Research and development tax update - RDEC Enhance tax relief for qualifying R&D expenditure has been a feature of the UK tax system for companies since its introduction in 2000 for small and medium- sized enterprises (”SME”s) and 2002 for large companies. A company is large if it has annual turnover of over €100 million, and a balance sheet exceeding…

The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) has introduced transfer pricing (TP) legislation under Section 140A of the Income Tax Act, 1967 (the Act) in 2009 and subsequently issued the Income Tax (Transfer Pricing) Rules 2012 (the TP Rules) and the Transfer Pricing Guidelines 2012 (the TP Guidelines) in 2012 with a retrospective effect from 1 January 2009. Based on the said…

Brexit and implications for UK enterprises The greatest advantage of the European Union is the economical and uninterrupted access to the EU single market. There is a range of benefits that can be mentioned, such as cash flow savings from the absence of VAT charges between businesses for intra-EU provision of services, ‘passporting’ of the licenses financial institutions have from…

On 30 June 2016, the new tax law on implementing automatic exchange of information (AEOI) in Hong Kong has become effective. AEOI is the international standard for automatic exchanging of financial account information in tax matters as published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in July 2014. Hong Kong targets to identify appropriate jurisdictions as its potential…

The Reanda International network is pleased to bring to you the latest issue of PRISM – the quarterly tax newsletter, which is part of Reanda’s effort to stay in touch with our clients by sharing updates and insights on the recent taxation changes and current hot topics. Please click here to download a digital copy of the 3rd quarter 2016…

First, the lag of information acquisition of equity transfer and the low of timeliness in dealing with cases. According to Public Notice [2015] No. 7, both parties that indirect transfer of property and Chinese resident enterprise that indirect transfer its equity can actively or report the transfer to the tax authorities in accordance with the requirement of tax authority and…