Finance Committee considers hiking Digital Services Tax from 3% to 5% France’s Finance Committee of the National Assembly is reviewing an amendment (I-735) to the 2025 budget to raise the 3% Digital Services Tax (DST) to up to 5% to raise €500m. A separate proposal
Seller, buyer, certified agents and tax authorities in open e-invoice model As global e-invoicing mandates expand, the long-term popularity of 5-corner e-invoicing model is emerging as the end game for most. It’s the eventual landing space for Belgium, and France e-invoicing has recently been overhauled
Call from Parliament tax committee chair for Articifical Intelligence levy The Chair of the EU Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax matters this week called for proposals to tax Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pasquale Tridico, MEP, said: “IA is a source of income (…), that’s why it needs
President signs VAT increase from 20% to 23% 2025; new 19% reduced rate The Slovakian President signed on 18 October 2024 the Act implementing a 3% VAT rise from 1 January 2025. In addition to the standard rate rise, there will also be a new
2025 Budget Law draft ends threshold for 3% DST On 15 October 2024, the Italian government submitted to Parliament its 2025 Budget Law, including a proposal to scrap the two-pronged threshold on its 3% Digital Services Tax (DST). The implementation date would be 1 January
ViDA Pillar 1, Intra-community EU Digital Reporting Requirement & e-invoicing Work progresses for 2030 launch and domestic harmonisation 2035 As part of the EU ViDA reforms, EU Finance Ministers gave political agreement to Pillar 1, Digital Reporting in May 2024. One of the other pillars,
2023 data reveals €26 billion raised from OSS & IOSS 150,000 businesses The 2023 evaluation (published 14 October 2024) of the VAT e-commerce package, particularly focusing on the One-Stop Shop (OSS) and Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) schemes, reflects the substantial progress made in streamlining VAT
Belgium Federal Public Service lists compliant Peppol accounting software for 1st January 2026 B2B e-invoicing The Belgian Federal Public Service Finance (FPS) has issued on 15 October a list of registered accounting software for e-invoicing which becomes mandatory for resident businesses from 1 January 2026.
