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07 January 2021
The Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency broadens the tax defin­i­tion of "reg­u­lated mar­kets"
The Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency (“ITA”), with Cir­cu­lar Let­ter no. 32/E, 24 Decem­ber, has prop­erly defined the no­tion of "reg­u­lated mar­kets" in the field of in­come tax. The cri­ter­ia for identi­fy­ing reg­u­lated...
Newsletter Tax
05 January 2021
2021 Budget Law Main Tax Top­ics
Con­tents1. Sus­pen­sion of pay­ments for the am­a­teur sports sec­tor (Art­icle 1, para­graphs 36 - 37)2. VAT on ready-made meals (Art­icle 1, para­graph 40)3. Ex­ten­sion of the re­align­ment of the value of cor­por­ate...
Newsletter Tax
30 December 2020
Stock sav­ings plan and Brexit: Brit­ish stock and some oth­er fin­an­cial in­stru­ments...
As a res­ult of Brexit, both stock or UCITS by a Brit­ish is­suer are dis­qual­i­fied and some EU-based UCITS funds’ un­der­ly­ing Brit­ish fin­an­cial in­stru­ments may also be so. Such a dis­qual­i­fic­a­tion may lead...
Law-Now Mergers & Acquisitions
23/12/2020
CMS al fianco di Coty nella strut­turazione della vendita del ramo Pro­fes­sion­al...
CMS – tra i primi 10 studi leg­ali a liv­ello in­ternazionale - ha coad­i­uvato lo stu­dio amer­icano Skad­den Arps nell’am­bito dell’im­ple­mentazione de­gli as­petti op­er­ativi tesi alla ri­or­ganizza­zione in...
Press release Employment & Pensions
23/12/2020
Tax dis­pute res­ol­u­tion mech­an­isms in the European Uni­on
On Decem­ber 17, 2020 the Rev­en­ue Agency pub­lished the reg­u­la­tion provid­ing some op­er­at­ing pro­ced­ures con­cern­ing some spe­cif­ic pro­vi­sions of the Le­gis­lat­ive De­cree no. 49/2020 that en­acted the Dir­ect­ive...
Newsletter Tax
22 December 2020
The Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency opened the pub­lic con­sulta­tion on the draft...
The Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency pub­lished the draft reg­u­la­tion on di­git­al ser­vice tax, in­tro­duced by the 2019 Budget law and in force start­ing from the 1st of Janu­ary 2020. The long-awaited reg­u­la­tion defines...
Law-Now TMC - Technology, Media and Communications
22/12/2020
OECD takes ac­tion on Cov­id-19 and trans­fer pri­cing
The chal­lenges of COV­ID-19 emer­gency on the in­ter­na­tion­al tax com­pli­ance of the Mul­tina­tion­al Groups are ad­dressed by the re­cent pub­lic­a­tion “Guid­ance on the trans­fer pri­cing im­plic­a­tions of the COV­ID-19...
Newsletter Tax
18 December 2020
The Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency opened the pub­lic con­sulta­tion on the draft...
The Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency pub­lished the draft reg­u­la­tion on di­git­al ser­vice tax, in­tro­duced by the 2019 Budget law and in force start­ing from the 1st of Janu­ary 2020.The long-awaited reg­u­la­tion defines...
Newsletter Tax
17 December 2020
DAC 6 - Itali­an Guidelines
As an­ti­cip­ated in our “Italy im­ple­ments the DAC 6 Dir­ect­ive” Alert dated Au­gust 27, 2020, Min­is­teri­al De­cree of Novem­ber 17, 2020 (the De­cree) and Rul­ing 364425 of Novem­ber 26, 2020 is­sued by the...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
26 November 2020
News on the Itali­an trans­fer pri­cing doc­u­ment­a­tion
On Novem­ber 23, 2020 Italy in­tro­duced rel­ev­ant amend­ments to the rules gov­ern­ing the trans­fer pri­cing doc­u­ment­a­tion re­quire­ments (Ad­min­is­trat­ive pro­vi­sion of the Itali­an Rev­en­ue Agency n. 360494 – the...
Newsletter Tax
24 November 2020
Tax re­gime of for­eign in­vest­ment funds equated to Itali­an funds
The cur­rent Itali­an do­mest­ic rules provide for the ex­emp­tion from cor­por­ate in­come tax only for di­vidends and cap­it­al gains re­ceived by in­vest­ment funds es­tab­lished in Italy, while those re­ceived by in­vest­ment...
Newsletter Tax
16 November 2020
CMS: the Tax and Trans­fer Pri­cing de­part­ment grows with the ar­rival of...
16 Novem­ber 2020 – CMS - among the top ten in­ter­na­tion­al law firms - strengthens the Tax de­part­ment with the ar­rival of Mario d'A­vossa and 5 oth­er pro­fes­sion­als of its Trans­fer Pri­cing team.Mario d'A­vossa...
Press release Tax
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