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S.Africa: South African Tax Court confirms application of the most favoured nation clause in…

By DLA Piper In our Global Tax Alerts in February 2018 and January 2019 we discussed the Dutch Court of Appeal’s decision which held

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GHANA: TP Country Summary

An excellent Ghana TP Country: For further information please send a request to Daniel@TaxRiskManagement.com

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Canada: Two fairly recent transfer pricing cases

Cameco Corporation v. The Queen The Tax Court of Canada ruled on Cameco Corporation v. The Queen on 26th September

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S.Africa: Grounds of assessment held to be unreasonable

… the grounds of assessment were unreasonable in two respects, namely the incorrect utilisation of the Net Asset Value (NAV)

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KENYA: The Kenya/Mauritius DTA declared invalid – why?

VI. Conclusion It is astounding to this writer that in the aftermath of the decision in TJN-A v KRA, the

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Malawi: Tax issues – TREASURY FAULTED ON INVESTOR TAX BURDEN

STEVE CHILUNDU Staff Reporter Economists and tax experts have faulted Treasury for introducing tax policies that are not favourable in

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Digest of Important Judgments on Transfer Pricing and International tax – 2018

http://www.fitindia.org/downloads/digest_of_1350_it_and_tp_cases_2018.pdf The Digest contains 1350 important judgments which were…

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ZIMBABWE: Income tax (transfer pricing documentation) regulations 2019 issued

The Minister of Finance and Economic Development issued the Income Tax (Transfer Pricing Documentation) Regulations 2019 by Statutory…

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Mauritius 2019 Budget Speech

The Prime Minister of Mauritius presented the Mauritian Budget Speech for the 2019/20 year yesterday. The important tax proposals, insofar…

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Nigeria

Tax risk management free pdf book

by Dr Daniel N Erasmus PhD EA USTCP Int’l Tax Attorney Tax Risk Management is more relevant than

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TP articles in DTAs being used as “tax charging sections”

Here are the recent cases where the courts have considered whether or not Article 9 Associated Enterprise or it’s equivalent

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TP: A short course in drafting TP related Agreements

Not only is theory important on TP. But how does this translate into practice. Here is a useful short course

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UN TPGs

Here are the latest UN TPGs:…

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Nigeria

Supporting documents to the TP Introduction and Update Seminar

The Continuing Education Questions are at the bottom of this page. Seminar recordings: Lecture 1 –…

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KENYA: High Court ruling on Mauritius treaty

By ENS Africa update – KENYA: High Court ruling on Mauritius treaty On 15 March 2019, The High Court of

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India

Anwar & Co. v. CIT: Understanding Permanent Establishment in International Taxation

The case of Anwar & Co. v. CIT is a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of India that delves deep into Permanent Establishment (PE) and…

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Nigeria

The IFA MAURITIUS 13th ASIA/AFRICA CONFERENCE 2019

POEM Panel notes: http://iitfconnect.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Poem-Panel-IFA-Mauritius-2019.pptx POEM notes:…

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India: Recent Transfer Pricing cases – over case 900 summaries

Application of Transfer Pricing provisions not against “non-discrimination” clause of DTAA; DCF valuation subsumes goodwill: In the…

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S.Africa: The “Expat Tax” and Financial Emigration

29 April 2019 In the wake of another budget deficit, SARS looks toward South Africans living abroad to help close

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Africa is being left out of the digital tax loop – by Daily Maverick

Google parent company Alphabet reported recently its full-year results for 2018, announcing income of $30-billion off a revenue of…

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Ghana: Pay some tax before filing tax appeal

GHANA: High Court rules that payment of minimum disputed amount is a prerequisite for filing an appeal The Commercial Division

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S.Africa: Country by Country reporting

Country-by-Country Reporting and Transfer Pricing SARS issued a public notice on 20 October 2017 which stipulates the requirements and…

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TP Zambia: Nestle Zambia Trading Ltd v ZRA

Here is a FULL copy of the case. Although there is a useful summary below, read the full case for

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Nigeria

A creature of statute: A decision about the Tax Court’s power to increase understatement…

In the recent judgment of Purlish Holdings (Proprietary) Limited v The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (76/18) [2019]

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