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   <title>Ireland - Tourism industry to benefit from lower VAT rate until end 2013</title>
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   <pubDate>11 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The Irish government have confirmed that the temporary 9% VAT rate will now be retained on tourism related supplies until the end of 2013. This reduced rate will therefore continue to apply, amongst others, to hotel accommodation and restaurant meals.



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   <title>Spain - VAT rate to be increased in 2013</title>
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   <pubDate>03 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 In the face of one of its most difficult financial periods to date, Spain's Minister of  Economy Luis de Guindos has announced that the VAT rate in Spain will be increased in 2013 to help the country fulfil its deficit commitments. The increase in VAT, along with other proposed changes and cut-ba ...]]></description>
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   <title>The Netherlands - Standard VAT rate to increase from 19% to 21%</title>
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   <pubDate>02 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Following the collapse of the right wing coalition goverment last week, and following 2 days of talks, the newly formed 5 party coalition government in the Netherlands has proposed austerity measures, to include an increase of the standard VAT rate from 19% to 21%. This should come into effect in ...]]></description>
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   <title>Greece - VAT Refunds</title>
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   <pubDate>01 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Recently the Greek Ministerial Decision POL 1090/2012 was published with various details in relation to the automatic VAT refund system, including the process of how refunds will be dealt with (i.e. chronological order), provisional audits (where the refunds are higher than € 100,000), the time i ...]]></description>
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   <title>The Netherlands - Increasing attempts to overcome VAT fraud</title>
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   <pubDate>25 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Netherlands Intensifies Efforts To Combat VAT Fraud

 by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels, 24 April 2012


 "Dutch State Secretary for Finance Frans Weekers has recently unveiled details of plans to give a new boost to the international fight against value-added tax (VAT) fraud."


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   <title>France - Application of reverse-charge for supplies of electronic communication services between taxable persons established and registered in France</title>
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   <pubDate>24 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The French Administration published an instruction (Bulletin Officiel des Impôts 3-A-3-12 dated 04 04 2012) which provides the application guidelines for the reverse charge applicable since 1 April 2012 for the supply of services of electronic communications between “wholesale” suppliers. This wo ...]]></description>
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   <title>France - Recent VAT rulings published by the French Authorities</title>
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   <pubDate>24 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  How to determine the place of taxation of supplies of services of professional training provided to several taxable persons?
 
  Should the payments retained by tour-operators in case of cancellation by a client be subject to VAT?








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   <title>Germany - Changes to the electronic submission of EC Sales Lists</title>
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   <pubDate>20 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The portal for the electronic upload of EC Sales Lists will no longer be available as of 1st January 2013. Due to the change in the legislation relating to the transmission of VAT data. A new secure process is to be used from the aforementioned date for the electronic transmission of EC Sales Lis ...]]></description>
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   <title>Germany - Special VAT audits in 2011 result in almost 2 billion Euro additional VAT to be paid</title>
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   <pubDate>20 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 According to the statistical records of the highest finance authorities of the land, almost 2 billion Euro in additional unpaid VAT was uncovered due to special VAT audits carried out in 2011. The results from VAT auditors taking part in general audits or in tax fraud investigations have not been ...]]></description>
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   <title>Germany - Proposed changes to the Certificate of Entry</title>
   <link>http://www.meridianglobalservices.com/New-Guidelines-Certificate-of-Entry-Germany/</link>
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   <pubDate>19 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 In January of this year, we advised you that the German Government was to introduce new documentation requirements relating to zero-rated exports and the intra-community supply of goods. New guidelines (which may be subject to further alteration) were recently issued relating to this.


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