The Swedish Supreme Court has taken up a case concerning a 63-year-old accountant who, through a limited company registered in the UK has helped other Swedish companies abroad to post revenues and expenses. However later the clients’ accounts were audited, several of them were convicted for economic crimes and accounting fraud in Sweden. The accountant…
April 2016 will bring about changes to how dividends are taxed. Dividends are annual cash payments made to holders of certain shares, which provide a vital source of income to many pensioners that rely on savings in retirement – many pick shares solely based on their dividend payouts. With the new system the current Dividend…
The Estonian Parliament passed the Social Tax, Income Tax and other Acts Amendment Act On 15 June 2015. The Act comes into force in stages. The first amendments come into force on 01.01.2016. The main tax amendments The social tax rate will reduce. The social tax will be 32.5 % instead of the current 33…
On numerous occasions the Estonian courts have had to solve disputes where the Estonian Tax and Customs Board requires the company’s tax arrears in Estonia to be paid by the members of the board personally. Today the Estonian Supreme Court’s practice in these disputes is quite substantial and allows to make conclusions about the meaning…
The tax system in the United Kingdom is not easy to explain to foreigners. Arguably UK has the longest tax code in the world since 2009. Then international legal research company LexisNexis revealed their finding that the UK tax code has more than doubled in size since 1997, reaching 11,520 pages. The annual changes to…
When does an Estonian company attract tax residency in a foreign country? The exemption from corporate income tax, a special characteristic of Estonia, attracts foreign entrepreneurs to register companies in Estonia. Estonian entrepreneurs in turn are acting more and more actively in foreign countries while trying to retain a minimal tax burden. This is why…
The changes to the Income Tax Act came to force on 1st January Several changes of the Income Tax Act (abbreviated ITA) came to force from January 2015. 1Office brings out the most important changes of the Income Tax Act for entrepreneurs operating in Estonia. The basic exemption of a natural person increased by 120…
The taxation of non-Community goods in Sweden changes in the new year. From 1st January 2015 a company liable to pay VAT in Sweden needs to declare and pay VAT on import goods in the Swedish Tax Agency. According to the order in force so far VAT on import goods was declared and paid in…
From the 1st of January 2015 the new VAT order will begin to apply to B2C electronic services providers due to directive 2008/8/EC of the European Commission. The specified services will start to be taxed in the country where the recipient of the service is located. Which electronic services will taxation change for? The changes…
Starting from 1st of January 2013, the income tax in Sweden, applied for companies, is 22%, instead of the previous 26,3%. The old tax rate still applies for the companies which financial year started before the 1st of January 2013. In 2014, the income of Swedish companies for the year 2013 will be taxed with…