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February 5, 2020

MOSS turning into a OSS

Since 2015, a simplified Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS) system is in place to declare and pay VAT on business-to-consumer (B2C) supplies of telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic (TBE) services in the EU. Following 2021, scope of MOSS will be extended turning it into a One Stop Shop (OSS)

Tax audits in Turkey

Turkey’s Inspection Board of Ministry of Treasury and Finance has initiated a wave of tax audits of nonresident taxpayers engaged in the digital economy by sending an official audit letters to multiple nonresident taxpayers. These letters states that VAT and corporate income tax liabilities of nonresident taxpayers engaged in the digital economy will be audited for the 2015 – 2018 period. This is a concerning situation as tax auditors can retrospectively audit corporate income tax and VAT liabilities of nonresident taxpayers in Turkey.

September 5, 2019

Most Common Myths About VAT

In this our insight we would like to overview the most common myths about VAT.

August 23, 2019

Economic Nexus effect on remote sales

On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the state in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. case. The decision allows states to tax remote sales and changes how companies must view sales tax nexus and when they have a sales tax exposure.

June 26, 2019

The importance of being tax compliant

If you are supplying digital services to consumers (B2C) abroad and if You haven’t registered for VAT/GST and filled VAT/GST returns, in those foreign countries, you might face reassessment of VAT/GST on Your remote sales of digital services going back up to 5 years, penalties from 10% to 300% depending on the foreign country’s legislation, late payment interests from the time when VAT/GST should have been reported and even imprisonment.