Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 14-Mar-2016

Canada US Relief Sought For Canadian Tax-Exempt Savings In a March 4 letter, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants pressed the US Treasury Department to adopt recommendations that would provide tax relief to citizens of the United States and Canada who have various cross-border deferred and tax-exempt savings accounts. China China To Meet May 1 Deadline For VAT Switch On March 7, China's Minister of Finance, Lou Jiwei, confirmed that implementation in the service sector of the nation's value-added tax regime, in place of business tax, will be completed on schedule by May 1 this year. EU ECOFIN Approves Automatic Exchange Of CbC Reports On March 8, 2016, the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council reached political agreement on new rules enabling automatic exchange of country-by-country reports between EU member states, subject to UK parliamentary scrutiny. European Insurers Urge Limits To EU BEPS Response Tax measures that go beyond the OECD's recommendations under its base erosion and profit shifting project may potentially harm the EU's competitiveness, Insurance Europe said on March 7, in response to the Commission's Anti Tax Avoidance Directive. EU Invites Feedback On Double Tax Resolution Mechanisms The European Commission has launched a three-month consultation on improving double tax dispute resolution mechanisms. UK Facebook To Restructure UK Tax Affairs Facebook has announced that "UK sales made directly by our UK team will be booked in the UK, not Ireland." Osborne 'Scraps UK Pension Tax Relief Reforms': Reports UK Chancellor George Osborne has reportedly scrapped plans for an overhaul of the pension tax relief regime, following sustained criticism of the proposals. OTS: UK Should Better Align Income Tax And NICs The UK's Office of Tax Simplification has recommended a seven-stage program to better align income tax and National Insurance contributions. Think Tank Calls For Simpler UK Tax Code The Centre for Policy Studies, a think tank, has said the rate at which the UK's tax code is growing is unsustainable, and called for its simplification. Group Of MPs Calls For Reformed Taxation Of Contractors A cross-party group of UK Members of Parliament has written to Chancellor George Osborne to call for the improved tax treatment of flexible workers, or contractors. North Sea Tax Reform 'Crucial', UK Industry Says Industry association Oil and Gas UK has called for a 20 percent reduction in the UK's headline rate of tax for North Sea oil companies and the abolition of the Petroleum Revenue Tax. Think Tank: Scotland Should Retain Same Income Tax As UK Scotland should retain the same income tax rate as the rest of the UK until more substantial tax raising powers are devolved, according to a report by the think tank Reform Scotland. UK SDLT Changes To Depress Housing Market Activity UK property sector activity will slow for three months after a surge in purchases ahead of stamp duty land tax rises scheduled for April, says a survey from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. UK Competition Authority Concludes Banking Tax Investigation The UK's six largest retail banks "will continue to pay higher effective rates of tax than smaller banks" following changes to the bank levy, according to a new report by the Competition and Markets Authority. US IRS Highlights Free Filing Support For US Taxpayers The Internal Revenue Service has issued a statement reminding taxpayers that they may be eligible to receive free tax help at more than 12,000 preparation sites nationwide. CIT Reform, BEPS Top Concerns For US Tax Directors With eight months before the 2016 presidential election, one in five public sector tax directors say that planning for reform under the next president is their primary tax concern, according to BDO's second annual LLP Tax Outlook Survey.