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Articles exploring Tax issues to help you gain trust and stay ahead, enabling you to manage your tax transparently and ethically.

Our head of Tax, David Sandison and Financial Reporting Advisory leader Chetah Hans, will be trying to help businesses decode the fundamental issues around accounting for, and the taxation of, transactions in digital tokens, more commonly referred to as “cryptos".

The webinar will cover remote/distance selling rules across the UK, EU, Australia, Singapore and the US, including: • selling into the UK post-Brexit and new registration requirements for non-UK suppliers of low value goods • the upcoming “One-Stop-Shop” to streamline VAT compliance in the European Union – including the removal of import and distance selling thresholds • the US state tax registration requirements post the “Wayfair” decision and the general economic thresholds • specific indirect tax regimes in APAC including the latest GST requirements for selling into Australia and Singapore

In this session, we will share a checklist of items to consider covering the areas listed below: Corporate tax GST Transfer Pricing Employees

Under this scheme, employers submit the employment income information of their employees to IRAS electronically.

In this session, we will discuss • Types of payments that are subject to withholding tax in Singapore. • The withholding tax mechanism • Interaction of double tax agreements with the domestic withholding tax rules • Common pitfalls

Our tax manager Jeremy O'Neill led a session on GST issues related to cross border services

The IRAS recently issued a set of guidelines that enable tax-payers flexibility in defending their transfer pricing arrangements where their business operations / financial positions have been impacted by Covid-19.

Tax authorities are reviewing and enacting changes to provide relief to affected taxpayers, find out the latest tax changes for Individuals and employers.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, businesses have had to incur additional costs to adjust to new work requirements and facilitate remote working. Recently, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (“IRAS”) clarified the rules on the claiming of input tax in respect of certain COVID-19 related costs.

Our tax manager Jeremy O'Neill led a session on GST issues related to cross border services

Even as restrictions are gradually eased, there continues to be considerable uncertainty over the risks, circumstances and comparables used to determine arm’s length transfer prices.

For Chinese employees working in China and elsewhere, new developments not initially accompanied by an official notice from the China tax authorities raises questions and challenges.

The objective of this webinar is to discuss iterative business models within the industry and explore typical tax issues that could emanate from these operating models that tax heads / financial controllers should be aware of.

The objective of this webinar is to discuss iterative business models within the industry and explore typical tax issues that could emanate from these operating models that tax heads / financial controllers should be aware of.

Our Head of Tax David Sandison will be leading a session on the fundamentals and building blocks for International structuring. To help you navigate tax structuring, David will be covering: what are the different bases of taxation in an international context, and how do they interact? what is the importance (or otherwise) of tax residence? how can tax treaties help me? what are the building blocks of structuring cross-border investments? what are the current trends in tax planning, and does it have a future?