Blogs

Italy’s government is attempting to reach a consensus on budget deficit reduction measures to avoid a scheduled increase in its VAT rate from 22% to 24.2% in January 2020....Continued

India has delayed the roll out this month of the new, simplified Goods and Services Tax returns. This is due to ongoing technical developments. There is no indication yet of when the new submissions w...Continued

The UK’s HMRC has provided guidance on who can reclaim import VAT on goods entering the UK from outside the EU. Post-Brexit, this will include goods coming from the remaining EU 27 states....Continued

EU leaders have agreed to delay again the UK’s exit from the EU until 31 October 2019. The UK may leave earlier if its Parliament passes the draft Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with EU states last y...Continued

Poland is to delay the introduction of mandatory VAT split payments until the start of 2020. It has already been delayed once this year. Optional split payments has been in operation since July 2018, ...Continued

Zambia has postponed the replacement of its existing VAT regime with a Sale Tax until 1 July 2019. The original plan had been 1 April....Continued

Chile has dropped plans to impose a 10% turnover tax on digital services provided by the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, Google and Spotify to its consumers. Instead it will levy 19% VAT....Continued

Portugal has delayed the imposition of electronic invoices on all B2G transactions to 1 July 2019....Continued

Romania has dropped the requirement for mandatory VAT split payments following a November order from the European Commission. ...Continued

Germany has committed to introducing legislation to reduce the VAT rate on e-books, online journals and newspapers from 19% to 7%....Continued