Press Room: Global Tax and Legal Alerts

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of March. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of February.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of January. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of December.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of November. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of October. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of September. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of August.  

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of July.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of June. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of May. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of April. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of March. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of February. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of January. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of December. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of November. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of October. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of September. 

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of August.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of July.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of June.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of May.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of April.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of March.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of February.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of January.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of December.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of November.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of October.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of September.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of August.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of July.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of June.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of May.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of April.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of March.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of February.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of January.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of December.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of November.

This edition of Global Insights contains tax, legal and business news, insights and perspectives we collected and compiled from our member firms and collaborating firms throughout the month of October.

The version of the Budget Law 2020 approved by the Italian upper chamber (Senato della Repubblica) includes the Italian Digital Service Tax (DST) whose main features are: 

The new Social Insurance and Pensions Law (published in the Official Gazette on 19 August 2019 as Law No. 148 of 2019) aims to grant employees of the private and public sector greater benefits and stability. Similar to other laws recently drafted, the law aims to act as a flexible and adaptive mechanism to changing times.

In 2011 the government of Mexico added a section related to the Income Tax Law which specify that residents abroad (non-residents) who have a Permanent Establishment in the country, with respect to the revenue attributable to said permanent establishment, are required to pay the income tax. It also indicates that any place where business activities or services are performed or provided by a resident abroad could be consider a Permanent Establishment.

On July 17, 2019 a new Double Taxation Treaty (DTT) was signed by the Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, replacing the existing Spain–U.S. treaty (which entered into force in 1990).

The Mexican government launched an amendment to the current customs law, which entered into force on December 22, 2018. This new regulation sets out the obligation to integrate an electronic file for each import and export customs operation.

On April 5, 2019, the Cyprus House of Representatives voted into law the provisions of the EU Directive for the adoption of rules against tax avoidance practices, known as the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD). The EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive aims at preventing multinational companies sheltering their profits in low or no tax jurisdictions.

Similar to many jurisdictions around the world, Egypt has adopted alternative dispute resolution methods, diverging from the more traditional method of litigation. More specifically, it has incorporated arbitration into its legal system through Law No. 27 of 1994 on Arbitration in Civil and Commercial Matters. This law, modelled after the UNICTRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, governs any arbitration proceedings following substantive Egyptian law.

Since the beginning of 2019, a new law in Germany for tenants was enacted that provides stricter regulations on rent increases in regards to apartment modernizations by the landlord. Although this law protects and favors the tenant, there are however still scenarios and rules in which rent increase is possible by the landlord.