Malaysia Budget 2025: Comprehensive Indirect Tax Reforms and Strategic Economic Initiatives On 18 October, the Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance unveiled the 2025 Budget, outlining transformative fiscal strategies aimed at enhancing tax efficiency, encouraging investment, and addressing key socio-economic challenges. The proposed measures underscore the government’s
Is €50 billion fraud in the EU VAT Gap an overestimate The European Commission’s annual VAT Gap estimate is due within the next few days. But is the calculation of missing VAT overestimating the amount of VAT fraud? Last year’s estimate, covering 2021, but the
Spain calls for early option to impose mandatory deemed supplier on ride & accommodation platforms On 5th November 2024, EU finance ministers gave political agreement to VAT in the Digital Age reforms. Spain asked to include a statement in the minutes of its desire to
Updated publication of common German ZUGFerd and French Factur-X standard In October, the respective national e-invoicing standards for Germany and France will simultaneously updated. German e-invoicing is to be mandated between 2025 and 2028. There is also a French e-invoicing mandate starting in September 2026.
HMRC updates obligations for platform operators with regards their sellers VAT activities The UK’s HMRC is updating use of data from digital platform operators in the UK of their sellers activities. This will come into effect in November 2024. The changes will enable HMRC to
Ministry of Finance consultation on draft legislation and FA(3) Schema for Feb 2026 mandatory KSeF B2B e-invoicing The Polish Ministry of Finance has launched on 5 November 2024 a public consultation of latest revised draft legislation and FA(3) logical structures for the 2026 launch of
ViDA 2030 near-live reporting of EU Intra-community supplies replaces EC Sales List The new Digital Reporting Requirements (DRR) , now agreed as part of the EU VAT in the Digital Age package, will retire the EC Sales List (ESL) requirement from 1 July 2030. Instead
1 January 2027 UK CBAM levy on imports of carbon intensive goods Following a summer consultation, the UK government confirmed the introduction of carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from January 2027. CBAM will be a levy on certain carbon-heavy goods being imported into the country.
Jan 2025 next phase Bookkeeping Act: digital booking; e-invoicing; and SAF-T The implementation of the Danish Bookkeeping Act main digital requirements is now underway. Under the 2022 Danish Bookkeeping Act, Danish resident businesses are mandated to record and store their accounting records on approved accounting
