India’s Union Budget includes Goods and Services Tax rate changes and simplifications India’s Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, published the 2024 – 25 budget on 25th July. Aside from a range of GST simplifications, it also included wider administrative changes for the Finance Bill 2024. India
January 2025: annual sales threshold for mandatory VAT registration increases from €35,000 to €50,000 Luxembourg has proposed increasing the annual threshold for Value Added Tax registration in January 2025 from €35,000 to €50,000. The Bill 8406 to implement is now in the Chamber of Deputies.
e-facturation Finance Law to introduce centralised e-invoicing platform The East African island state of Madagascar is set to become the latest country to mandate the use of centralised e-invoicing. The latest Finance Law changes include the introduction of an e-facturation platform to collect structured VAT
Switch from 19% standard to 7% reduced VAT rates January 2025 The Value Added Tax rate on the sales of art work in German will fall from 19% to 7% from 1 January 2025. This is a return to the reduced rate reverses the hike
5 tax agencies Phase 2 EU ViDA Digital Reporting Requirements transaction data technical challenges Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden tax authorities have completed a second phase of their pilot technical trial of exchanging VAT invoice data based on the EU ViDA Digital Reporting Requirements proposal.
BC retrospectively broadens PST net on software The Canadian province of British Columbia has retrospectively widened the Provincial Sales Tax net on software. The change removes the limit of sales tax obligations from just ‘software programs’ to software. This means many digital services that did
HMRC changes scope of VAT due to changes in carbon credit market In the UK, the sale of carbon credits are outside of the scope of VAT as there was no secondary market for onward supply. The UK’s HMRC is changing this from 1 September
Government considering VAT and other tax rises to fund military spending Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Lithuania is looking at a 1% VAT increase to 22% to help meet additional military spend. Estonia VAT increased at the start of this year to
Anti-fraud measures to help close VAT Gap The Slovak Republic government has put out to consultation two changes to the VAT law to help reduce the Central European country’s VAT Gap. Slovakia has made great strides in cutting the deficit between expected and actual VAT
World Bank recommends Pakistan consolidated GST regime The World Bank is advocating for Pakistan to merge its federal and provincial revenue agencies into a unified General Sales Tax (GST) collection entity, as recommended by the World Bank. However, this entails significant legislative hurdles and potential
