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New Transfer Pricing Law Amendments and Regulations in Cyprus

Transfer Price is a practice in accounting occurring when goods or services are exchanged between divisions (subsidiaries, affiliates, or commonly controlled companies) of the same larger entity On 30 June 2022 the House of Representatives voted on and approved amendments to the Income Tax Law and the Assessment and Collection of Taxes Law (TP legislation). […]

Cyprus: Provisional Tax 2022

IBCCS TAX Cyprus Provisional Tax 2022 First instalment

Cyprus companies are required to apply a temporary tax assessment / calculation of their 2022 chargeable income under the Cyprus Income Tax Law. The temporary tax assessment/estimation is due in two equal instalments on or before following dates: 31st of July 2022, 31st of December 2022. If provisional tax payments were made based on an […]

Non-compliance with UBO reporting – penalties announced

12 March 2022 is the last date when companies or other legal entities incorporated before 12 March 2021 in Cyprus should report data about their Beneficial Owners. According to the Circular issued on 25 January 2022 by the Registrar of Companies – in case of a non-compliance with any of the obligations – the company […]

Cypriot DAC6 Guidelines Decree

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On 29th October 2021 the Cypriot Ministry of Finance issued guidelines in the form of Ministerial decree which clarify key terms of Cypriot Mandatory Disclosure Rules Law (we have already written article about the law itself). Its main target is to provide explanation for the relevant persons influenced by the EU Directive related to exchange […]

EU set to remove Seychelles, Anguilla and Dominica from the Tax Haven Blacklist

The European Union has agreed to remove Anguilla, Dominica, and Seychelles from its blacklist of tax havens. All three had previously been placed on the list because they did not fulfill the EU's tax transparency standards of being assessed as at least "largely compliant" by the OECD Global Forum in terms of information exchange on request. The delisting was preceded by the forum’s decision to grant these jurisdictions a supplementary review on this matter. Nine jurisdictions still remain on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions (Annex I): • American Samoa, • Fiji, • Guam, • Palau, • Panama, • Samoa, • Trinidad and Tobago, • US Virgin Islands • Vanuatu. Anguilla, Dominica, and Seychelles are now included in the state of play document (Annex II) called also “grey list”, which covers jurisdictions that do not yet comply with all international tax standards but have committed to adopting tax good governance principles pending the allowed additional review. Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Malaysia, North Macedonia, Qatar and Uruguay have also been added to this document, while Australia, Eswatini and Maldives have implemented all the necessary tax reforms and have therefore been removed from it. Turkey continues to be mentioned in Annex II. In its conclusions of February 2021, the Council called on Turkey to commit to automatic exchange of information with all member states. Even though progress has since been made, further steps need to be taken. The Council revises its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions and an accompanying state of play document twice a year. This practice was formed in 2017 to promote global good governance in taxes and to alert member countries on which non-EU jurisdictions engage in abusive tax practices. They can then take defensive steps to protect their tax income and fight against tax fraud, evasion, and abuse. The criteria for listing are in line with international tax standards and focus on tax transparency, fair taxation and prevention of tax base erosion and profit shifting. The Council engages with the countries that do not meet these requirements, monitors their progress, evaluates, and updates this list on a regular basis.

The European Union has agreed to remove Anguilla, Dominica, and Seychelles from its blacklist of tax havens. All three had previously been placed on the list because they did not fulfill the EU’s tax transparency standards of being assessed as at least “largely compliant” by the OECD Global Forum in terms of information exchange on […]

DAC6 – Automatic Exchange of Information

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The Council of the European Union has adopted the Directive 2018/822 for amending the Directive 2011/16/EU as regards mandatory automatic exchange of information in the field of taxation. Genesis UE Member States find it increasingly difficult to protect their national tax bases from erosion as tax-planning structures have evolved to be particularly sophisticated. Such structures […]

Employment and HR – Significant Changes in Cyprus

The Council of Ministers issued a set of regulations, published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cyprus on 3 September 2021, announcing that the application of the Social Insurance Regulations of 2017 shall become effective as of 13 September 2021. The said regulations will substitute the Social Insurance Regulations of 2010 as amended. […]

Nowy Ład – zmiany w PIT, CIT, VAT

Polski Ład Polish New Deal IBCCS TAX Cyprus

Przedstawiony projekt przepisów podatkowych w ramach Polskiego Ładu to 225-stronicowy dokument, w którym zawarto zmiany w różnych podatkach (PIT, CIT, VAT). Nowe przepisy, które częściowo będą obowiązywać już od 1 stycznia 2022 r. oznaczają też nowe ulgi podatkowe i modyfikacje tych istniejących. Prawodawca wprowadza również nowe definicje a także doprecyzowuje te już funkcjonujące. Poniżej nasza […]

Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) Rule

Controlled Foreign Company Rules (CFC) were implemented in Cyprus following the approval by Cyprus of the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD), which may affect a variety of companies. Relatively limited number of companies may be affected whose profits are over € 750.000 annually provided their profits are not distributed as dividends up to 7 months […]

Georgia for business

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Attractive transit location with easy access to Europe, the Black Sea coast, and the Caucasus Mountain range, as well as delicious cuisine and wine. These are not the only advantages of Georgia that make more and more companies locating there. Why Georgia? Following a severe economic slump in 2015, the Georgian economy has been able […]