The world has gone digital in many ways but our tax system seems to be stuck in the Stone Age. Tax compliance rate is very low and one area where there is a high prevalence of evasion is VAT.

Age discrimination law is now in force, completing the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, one of the major pieces of EU legislation in the last five years. Information and consultation laws now exist across Europe. TUPE, also based in EU law, has been updated. So what does Brussels have in store for us next?

Welcome to Uncharted waters: Tackling reinsurers' riskiest exposures. The report explores the most serious risk concerns among the reinsurers that took part in the Insurance Banana Skins Survey 20171, and how to deal with them.

Investment interest in Africa and Nigeria has continued to grow, with Africa often viewed as an investment market with the potential for significant growth and superior returns.

Family businesses are business enterprises - small or large - that are controlled and run by one or more family members.

M&A activity in the global Forest, Paper and Packaging (FPP) industry took a dip in the first quarter of 2016 according to a recently released report (the Report) by Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC).

This publication summarizes the main features of how Canadian oil and gas operations are taxed by the Canadian government and primarily the provincial governments of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

This Tax memo is an update to our August 30, 2012 Tax memo "Asset management industry tax issues: France’s new filing requirements and Canada's prohibited investment rules."

The European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has published two draft reports on the Market Integration and Supervision Package that significantly expand the European Commission's proposals, introducing comprehensive direct ESMA supervision over all EU CCPs and CSDs, direct oversight of significant asset management groups, and a statutory competition mandate for ESMA. These far-reaching changes to EU capital markets supervision architecture will fundamentally impact regulated firms' supe

The European Parliament's ECON Committee has published two draft reports on the Market Integration and Supervision Package that significantly expand ESMA's direct supervisory powers...

Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari today presented the 2020 Budget to the Joint Session of the National Assembly.

The Finance Act (FA) 2019 introduced significant amendments to the Value Added Tax Act (VATA). The FIRS circular seeks to provide guidance on how the FIRS intends to implement the VAT amendments.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has issued the Income Tax (Common Reporting Standard) Regulations, 2019 (CRS Regulations).

According to a global survey by PwC and the Alternative Investment Management Association, more than 80% of firms that have liquid alternatives funds said those products were also growing...

European independence requires financing, agreement on capital deployment, risk allocation and arrangements for when investment, markets or public finances come under pressure. This Client Alert assesses the implications of Commission President von der Leyen's 2026 State of the European Union speech for financial services, examining how banking competitiveness, market integration, industrial capacity, climate resilience and economic security converge into a single policy programme.

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Monitoring Of Compliance With Transaction Taxes The Taxman’s Way - A Review Of The Recent FIRS’ Notice On Nationwide Value Added Tax And Withholding Tax Verification Exercise

The Privy Council gives credence to the concept of "modified universalism" (being the court’s common law power to assist foreign winding up proceedings) and notes some of the circumstances which would permit a "stranger" to a winding up order the opportunity to challenge that order.

The liquidators of two companies wound up in the Cayman Islands (SICL and SHL) sought disclosure of documents relating to those companies from PwC in Bermuda

The EU’s likely endorsement of a wave of standards for 2014 means that IFRS reporters will have to early adopt the standards in 2013 if they need to claim compliance with IFRS and EU IFRS.