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As local and international regulations become more prescriptive and enforcement gathers pace, dealing with the evolving tax landscape in a cross-border context presents you with a significant challenge. The number and complexity of tax investigations conducted by authorities is rapidly escalating and the need for tax adjustments is rising accordingly. Our 350 tax lawyers worldwide are supported by strong technical tax intelligence teams that identify developments in tax law and policy affecting your business. This multi-disciplinary approach helps you develop robust structures that maximise tax effectiveness in alignment with your commercial strategy.  Given the increasing cross-border nature of today's tax issues, top corporates and financial institutions seek our advice in Central and Eastern Europe, given our global tax presence and our in-depth expertise in national tax laws.

Whether you are a financial institution, multinational, fund, investor or high net worth individual, we understand your business and the tax pressures you face. Our teams work together across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond in the key areas affecting your business, including VAT, international taxation, transfer pricing, e-commerce, M&A and investment funds, tax planning and financing.  Our experts can help you manage tax control cases and deal with tax authorities as well as manage tax litigation cases, including challenging tax liability decisions. The right tax advice can make a material difference to transaction costs and, in some cases, avert serious consequences.


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12/01/2023
Bul­garia in­tro­duces VAT ad­just­ments on un­col­lect­ible re­ceiv­ables
As a res­ult of amend­ments to the Value Ad­ded Tax Act (VATA) that went in­to force on 1 Janu­ary 2023, tax­pay­ers in Bul­garia will be able to re­duce the tax base of their sup­ply in the event of total or par­tial...
02/08/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 4 - Ex­pec­ted im­pact of the EU Ar­ti­fi­cial...
Part 4 - Ex­pec­ted im­pact of the EU Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Reg­u­la­tion, the meta­verse as a work­place In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world. The emer­gence...
27/07/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 3 - Data pro­tec­tion chal­lenges, the...
Part 3 - Data pro­tec­tion chal­lenges, the im­port­ance of cy­ber­se­cur­ity, ad­vert­ising reg­u­la­tion in the meta­verse In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world...
19/07/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 2 - Trade­marks and copy­right, NFTs...
Part 2 - Trade­marks and copy­right, NFTs and civil law prin­ciples in the meta­verse In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world. In the meta­verse, trade in vir­tu­al...
01/06/2022
CMS Next
What’s next? In a world of ever-ac­cel­er­at­ing change, stay­ing ahead of the curve and know­ing what’s next for your busi­ness or sec­tor is es­sen­tial.At CMS, we see ourselves not only as your leg­al ad­visers but also as your busi­ness part­ners. We work to­geth­er with you to not only re­solve cur­rent is­sues but to an­ti­cip­ate fu­ture chal­lenges and in­nov­ate to meet them.With our latest pub­lic­a­tion, CMS Next, our ex­perts will reg­u­larly of­fer you in­sights in­to and fresh per­spect­ives on a range of is­sues that busi­nesses have to deal with – from ESG agen­das to re­struc­tur­ing after the pan­dem­ic or fa­cing the di­git­al trans­form­a­tion. We will also share with you more about the work that we are do­ing for our cli­ents, help­ing them in­nov­ate, grow and mit­ig­ate risk.To be able to provide you with the best sup­port, we im­merse ourselves in your world to un­der­stand your leg­al needs and chal­lenges. However, it is equally im­port­ant that you know who we are and how we can work with you. So, we in­vite you to meet our ex­perts and catch a glimpse of what is hap­pen­ing in­side CMS.En­joy read­ing this pub­lic­a­tion, which we will up­date reg­u­larly with new con­tent.CMS Ex­ec­ut­ive Team
20/05/2022
DEBRA – The new EU tax ini­ti­at­ive aim­ing at pro­mot­ing a fair and sus­tain­able...
With­in the EU a wide­spread asym­metry ex­ists between debt and equity fin­an­cing. Usu­ally, in­terest is tax de­duct­ible from the cor­por­ate in­come tax base while di­vidends do not be­ne­fit from such ad­vant­age...
29/03/2022
Ap­plic­a­tion of State aid law to tax meas­ures: 2021 re­view and 2022 out­look
By sev­er­al rul­ings is­sued in 2021, the Court of justice of the EU (CJEU) has spe­cified its case-law on the veri­fic­a­tion of two re­quire­ments for tax meas­ures to fall with­in the scope of State aid: the...
28/03/2022
Ger­many: Cross-bor­der em­ploy­ee as­sign­ments - li­ab­il­ity for wage tax?
The de­cis­ive factor for wage tax li­ab­il­ity in the in­ter­na­tion­al as­sign­ment of em­ploy­ees is not who pays the wage. For the em­ploy­ee, the ques­tion is: in which coun­try must the in­di­vidu­al pay tax on his...
07/03/2022
Bul­garia coun­try tax guide
1. Lan­guages used by the loc­al tax au­thor­it­ies Bul­gari­an. For­eign doc­u­ments should be trans­lated (and leg­al­ized when re­quired) in Bul­gari­an when provided to the Bul­gari­an Na­tion­al Rev­en­ue Agency. ...
14/02/2022
Con­sequences of the Court of Justice of the European Uni­on rul­ing on the...
The Court of Justice of the European Uni­on (here­in­after, “CJEU”) has de­clared the gen­er­al rules on pen­al­ties for tax of­fences re­lated to the in­form­at­ive de­clar­a­tion of over­seas as­sets and rights ...
03/02/2022
Tax treaty between France and Colom­bia: Fi­nally entered in­to force!
France has an ex­tens­ive net­work of tax treat­ies in Lat­in Amer­ica. However, Colom­bia was still a coun­try with which France had no tax treaty entered in­to force, des­pite a tax treaty be­ing signed back in...
30/12/2021
Pil­lar 2: Mod­el rules to im­ple­ment in­ter­na­tion­al tax re­form pub­lished
The OECD pub­lished on 20 Decem­ber 2021 the tech­nic­al de­tails of the im­ple­ment­a­tion of "Pil­lar 2" to es­tab­lish min­im­um tax­a­tion of mul­tina­tion­al groups. The gen­er­al ar­chi­tec­ture of the rules is con­sist­ent...