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South Africa

A Critical Analysis of Tax Avoidance in theSouth African Income Tax Act 58 of 1962, as Amended

Paper by: Jean Chrysostome Kanamugire “Tax avoidance connotes stratagems which are prima facie lawful, i.e. which are lawful unless…

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OECD: The Global Revenue Statistics Database

The Global Revenue Statistics Database provides the largest public source of harmonised tax revenue data, verified by countries and regional

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South Africa

Tax Administration Act: Fulfilling human rights through efficient and effective tax…

Paper by: Dr Fareed Moosa Public finance is vital for enabling effective governance, maintaining law and order, promoting peace and

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Challenging SARS audits in light of the Constitution by Prof. Dr. Daniel N. Erasmus

ABSTRACT This thesis deals with the relevant law up to 30 September 2012, but the principles are still relevant to

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The AEOI Standard and Tax Transparency

Source: OECD 2019 is the third year in which jurisdictions have been undertaking the automatic exchange of information on financial

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Kenya

Africa Regulatory ENSight

Paper by: ENSAfrica Insight into regulatory changes in the following countries: Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritania, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South…

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Malaysia

Fraudulent Financial Reporting and Companies’ Characteristics: Evidence from Tax Audit

Paper by: Norsiah Ahmad, Juahir Mohd-Nor and Norman Mohd-Saleh Fraudulent financial reporting has become an important issue in accounting…

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Israel

How the Israel tax authorities are interpreting intergroup intangibles exports – ISRAEL TP CASE

Article by Henriette Fuchs (Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz) Unlike the taxing authorities in many other countries, the tax authorities

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OECD | Tax revenues have reached a plateau

Source: OECD Tax revenues in advanced economies reached a plateau during 2018, with almost no change seen since 2017, according

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Kenya

Kenya Revenue Authority: Citizen Service Delivery Charter

Published by Kenya Revenue Authority

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United Arab Emirates

Federal Tax Authority issues public clarification on transfer of business in the UAE

Article by: Reggie Mezu, Bastiaan Moossdorff and Laya Aoun-Hani (Baker McKenzie) The UAE Federal Tax Authority (FTA) has published Public

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International Taxation of E-commerce Business Income

Article by: Dr. Dennis Ndonga (Lecturer, Murdoch University Australia) The rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce has challenged the…

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The Nexus between Tax Treaties, Transfer Pricing and BEPS. Lessons for African Tax Policy…

Paper by: Cephas Makunike Tax is a sustainable tool for domestic revenue mobilisation for governments to fund public services. Revenue

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Tanzania

Assessment of the Taxpayer Compliance Strategies Used by Tanzania Revenue Authority

Paper by: Tshepo Banda Tanzania has made considerable investment in legislative tax reforms, taxpayer education programs, tax enforcement…

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Double Tax Treaties: An Introduction

Paper by: Reuven S. Avi-Yonah The existing network of over 2,500 bilateral double tax treaties (DTTs) represents an important part

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Argentina

ANTI-AVOIDANCE MEASURES OF GENERAL NATURE AND SCOPE-GAAR AND OTHER RULES

Paper by: Guillermo O. Teijeiro Most countries have either judicial or statutory general anti-avoidance rules (GAAR); Argentina enrols in…

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Nigeria

THE UTILITY OF ADVANCE PRICING AGREEMENTS (APAs)

Paper by: Olamide Akinla Nigeria introduced Transfer Pricing Regulations in August 2012. One of the innovations of the Regulations is

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OECD – Revenue Statistics 2019

This annual publication presents a unique set of detailed and internationally comparable tax data in a common format for all

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Tax Controversy – Impact Of ‘Disruptive’ Digitalization Processes on Taxpayers

In a world that is moving at a fast pace in the light of the “disruptive” digitalization processes happening at

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Nigeria

NIGERIA – Tax Appeal Tribunal delivers landmark decision on threshold for exported service…

The Tax Appeal Tribunal, Lagos Zone (“TAT” or the “Tribunal”), recently held thatservices which flow from service providers in Nigeria

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South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA – Tax revenues from the digital economy – Peter Dachs (ENSAfrica)

International tax law principles deal with the allocation to various jurisdictions of taxing rights in respect of the business profits

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PARAGUAY – “Tax treaty overrides: tension between Paraguayan Constitutional Law and the Vienna…

DTC are binding agreements between usually two States and thus are governed by Public International Law. In the majority of

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ETHIOPIA – Revisiting Ethiopian Income Tax law on Tax Evasion and Avoidance: Special emphasis…

The one that should have to be in the problem is the one that is included in the spectrum of

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South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA – The Taxation of International (non-resident) Sportspersons in South Africa –…

A critical analysis of the relevance of the OECD Model article 17 in Double Tax Agreements from a South African

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