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Tanzania: Income tax and value-added tax on electronic services – Regulations

In July 2022, the Minister of Finance and Planning (Minister) published the Income Tax (Registration of Non-Resident Electronic Service Providers) Regulations 2022 (Income Tax Regulations) and the Value Added Tax (Registration of Non-Resident ..

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Templars

Nigeria’s Imposition of Excise Tax on Phone Calls, Text Messages and Data Usage – Implications on Businesses

Taxation is not just a tool to generate revenue for the government. It is also deployed to encourage businesses, fight social vices, lift majority of the citizenry out of poverty, and, overall, balance social and economic needs of the society. When a country focuses its a..

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Sal & Caldeira Advogados

Economic Acceleration Stimulus Package - Tax Incentives

We hereby inform the business community and other interested parties that on 9 August 2022, the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, announced 20 measures to stimulate the economy, including tax incentives..

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Mulenga Mundashi

Memorandum on the Tax Appeals Tribunal Rules 2022

On 24 April 1998, the Parliament of Zambia enacted the Revenue Appeals Tribunal Act No 11 of 1998 ("RAT Act"), which established the Revenue Appeals Tribunal to hear appeals under the Customs and Excise Act, the Income Tax ..

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Webber Wentzel

A minefield of taxes lies ahead for crypto asset transactions

​​A gain on the disposal of crypto assets may be taxed as either revenue or capital, in line with the same income tax rules that apply to the disposal of shares or unit trusts.

 

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Templars

The Implications of Nigeria’s Refusal to Endorse the OECD/G20 IF Digital Tax Deal

The internet has simplified communication and eradicated distance; however, it has also brought its own challenges. While the generation of remote income has expanded to continents where companies have neither presence nor jurisdiction, the controversy of digital ta..

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Orison Legal

Finance Bill 2022 – An overview for businesses

On 22 July 2022, the Cabinet approved the introduction of the Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 into the National Assembly. The object of the Bill is to provide for the implementation of the measures announced in the Minister of Finance's Budget Speech 2022-202..

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FB Attorneys

New Tax Regulations Promulgated

Following the enactment of the Finance Act, 2022 (the Finance Act), the Minister for Finance on 1 July 2022 issued three sets of Tax Regulations. These Regulations are the Tax Administration (General) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (the TAA Regulations); the Value Added Ta..

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Dentons Hamilton Harrison & Mathews

High Court finds that Value Added Tax Regulations, 2017 are valid and have the force of law

The High Court on 31 January 2022 delivered judgment in Income Tax Appeal No E84 of 2020: Commissioner of Domestic Taxes v. W. E. C. Lines (K) Limited, dismissing the Kenya Revenue Authority’s appeal and also invalidating the Value Added Tax Reg..

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