Moody grants Malta A2 ‘stable’ rating
Moody’s had raised Malta’s rating to A2 ‘stable’ last July after 11 years.
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- registered as Auditors in Malta
- registered as Accountants in Malta
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DM Europe TAG Alliances Ranked 3rd Globally
DM Europe’s international alliance of independent accounting and professional services firms, TAG Alliances®, has been recognized by Accountancy Age as one of the top three accounting alliances in the world. This is the eighth consecutive year that TAG Alliances has been ranked in this elite position.
Tax & Compliance Bulletin 53
EU: Tax Policy Key to New European Green Deal:
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen presented her ambitious climate-change related policy proposal ‘New Green Deal’, under which every aspect of the EU economy will be re-evaluated to address the shortcomings of the European framework, which are compounded by the climate emergency. The European leaders endorsed the policy goal of making Europe a climate-neutral by 2050, with a dissenting opinion from Poland could not commit to this goal, as a result of which the EU leaders will re-evaluate the matter in June 2020.
Bulletin 52
OECD – As a follow-up of BEPS Action 13, the OECD /G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS has released updated guidance on the implementation and operation of Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR). The new guidance includes the treatment of dividends, the operation of local filing…
Bulletin 51
EU: The Council of the EU has reached an agreement on the amendments to the VAT Directive in relation to SMEs. The objective of the amendments is to reduce the administrative burden and compliance costs for SMES, and in particular addresses SMEs operating in a cross-border context.
Bulletin 50
EU’s Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) considered on 10 October further harmonisation of the EU Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regime by upgrading the present AML directives to a regulation, an EU law instrument which is directly enforceable in all EU Members states without further implementing acts at …
Bulletin 49
SWITZERLAND: European Union finance ministers agreed to white-list Switzerland as compliant with all required tax cooperation commitments. The United Arab Emirates has also been removed from the EU blacklist, having enacted satisfactory economic substance legislation. Nine jurisdictions remain on …
Bulletin 48
INTERNATIONAL TAXATION: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a detailed work plan to develop a consensus solution to the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the global economy. The 129 countries participating in …
Bulletin 47
CRYPTOCURRENCIES: Social media company Facebook plans to launch its own virtual currency, GlobalCoin, next year. It will be used as a worldwide digital payments system, and will be available initially in around a dozen countries by the first quarter of …
Bulletin 46
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP: The UK Minister for the Commonwealth and the United Nations, Lord Ahmad, has assured British Overseas Territories (OTs) that they have until 2023 to establish publicly available registers of beneficial ownership, during which time the UK will be campaigning to have …
Bulletin 45
SPAIN: The European Commission has requested Spain to impose equal taxes on rental income received by resident and non-resident individuals. Landlords receive a 60 per cent tax exemption for renting their properties out as a tenant’s main residence, but non-resident individuals with real estate properties in …
Bulletin 44
IRELAND: The Irish government has again postponed its plans to revalue domestic property for the purposes of local property tax (LPT), this time from 1 November 2019 to 1 November 2020. Property prices have increased sharply but unevenly across the Republic of Ireland since the last valuation in …
Permanent Establishment
(1) For the purposes of this convention the term “permanent establishment” means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.
(2) The term “permanent establishment” includes especially…
Bulletin 43
CYPRUS: The finance ministry has circulated a draft Bill to transpose the EU directive on the mandatory disclosure and exchange of cross-border tax arrangements (DAC 6) into national law by the end of 2019. The Bill includes no additional provisions beyond those required by the directive. It exempts …
Bulletin 42
PORTUGAL: Law No. 17/2019 was formally enacted in Portugal, requiring banks to report residents’ financial accounts above EUR50,000 by 31 July of each year. Transitional deadlines allow 60 days for reporting of accounts existing before …
