Blogs

Brazil is setting up a tax reform commission to review and consolidate a number of VAT implementation bills passing through the legislator at present. The agreement by leaders of the both houses of th...Continued

Moldovia has postponed until April 2020 extending VAT collection obligations on foreign providers of e-services. The measure was due to come into effect on 1 January 2020....Continued

The French national audit office, Inspection Générale des Finances (‘IGF’), has come out against the introduction of VAT split payments as a method to limit e-commerce VAT fraud....Continued

European Finance Ministers, via their ECOFIN group, have provided the European Council with an update on plans to give member states sweeping freedom to set reduced VAT rates on products and services....Continued

The Czech Republic will not be able to go ahead with the implementation of the anti-VAT fraud reverse charge measure on 1 January 2020....Continued

The Gulf state of Qatar has published its 2020 budget without any plans to implement Value Added Tax. The state is committed with the five other states of the Gulf Cooperation Council to launch a harm...Continued

Romania has delays until 2021 a plan to cut its standard VAT rate from 19% to 16%. This had been planned for Jan 2020....Continued

Spain is to launch in 2020 a pilot offering pre-completed, draft VAT returns to larger taxpayers. These will be based on the Spanish SII (Suministro Inmediato de Información) digital invoice reportin...Continued

Greece has postponed the introduction of digital VAT books and e-invoices. The measures to fight VAT fraud were scheduled for 1 January 2020. However, the Ministry of Finance has now indicated that th...Continued

Ecuador has become the latest state to announce plans to levy VAT on the provision of electronic services by non-resident providers to its consumer. This would be the second attempt to extend the Valu...Continued