Gender inequality in the VAT system and wider tax sphere Does the VAT burden unfairly fall more heavily on women than men? There is lots of proof it does resulting from gender differences in consumption expenditures. For example, Akram- Lodhi and Van Staveren study in
175 countries have implemented VAT or GST – January 2025 Since the first introduction of a Value Added Tax in France in 1954, it has now been adopted by 175 countries around the world. The latest is Guinea-Bissau, implementing VAT on 1 January 2025. You
2025 Budget Law withdraws €5.5m Italian revenue DST threshold Italy has gazetted its 2025 Budget Law which includes the withdrawal of one of the two thresholds for its 3% Digital Services Tax. The change will bring more non-resident providers of digital services into the Italian
Standard Audit File for Tax SAF-T Harmonised transactional data schema for simplified exchange with tax authorities The countries below have implemented (or propose) the OECD’s Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T). This is an harmonised XML schema of company transaction data from accounting records for
