When a local government enters into a service contract without knowing that the service is exempt from value-added tax (VAT) and determines and pays the service fee including VAT, the Supreme Court ...
When have you made the right choice by deviating from a longstanding practice? This may be challenging but rewarding if guided by the right principles. Undeniably, this holds true in tax cases decided ...
Hotelbeds UK Ltd operates as a wholesale supplier of hotel accommodation, purchasing rooms from UK VAT-registered hotels and reselling them to travel businesses. Due to industry practice, Hotelbeds ...
Fernando Matesanz of Spanish VAT Services examines how Case C-515/24 clarifies the scope of the VAT Directive’s standstill clause, with ramifications for Spain and beyond ...
Businesses often forgo input VAT credit if the purchase/expense invoice is more than 6 months old (or, 2 months in the case of monthly tax periods). Needless to say, such a tax position results in a ...
Potential fraud such as the “missing trader” scheme, identify-theft tax evasion or claiming input VAT for non-qualifying expenses are probed. To address economic pressures, the government is ...
There have been various changes in the value-added tax (VAT) refund process these past few years, with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) continuously simplifying the requirements and procedure on ...