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How to Gain Transparency and Control of Your Tax Engine

Tax is a critical component of your business’ success and should never feel inaccessible. You don’t want your approach to tax to become a black hole where information disappears and is difficult to find. You and your teams deserve full visibility of your data and tax engine information, with self-service tools at your fingertips to […]

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How to Evaluate ROI When Entering New States for DtC Shipping

Whether your organization is just starting out in the direct-to-consumer (DtC) wine shipping channel or you’ve been established for years and are looking to expand into new markets, it can be a challenge to know which states to enter. It’s important to have a sense of the potential return on investment (ROI) before selecting a […]

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Analysis: The Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) Four Months On

The European Commission (EC) introduced the Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) on 1 July 2021 to simplify the accounting for VAT on goods imported into the EU with an intrinsic value below EUR 150. It is not compulsory, and there are alternative methods of accounting for import VAT on such imports. As with any new […]

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Meet the Expert: Menuka Thajali – Senior Compliance Services Representative – IPT at Sovos

Meet the Expert is our series of blogs where we share more about the team behind our innovative software and managed services. As a global organisation with indirect tax experts across all regions, our dedicated team is often the first to know about new regulatory changes and the latest developments on tax regimes worldwide to […]

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Romania SAF-T: New Guidance for Submission Deadlines

In previous blogs, we’ve taken a deep dive into Romania’s new SAF-T requirements. In the latest guidance released this week, the tax authority has provided updated implementation timelines for different sizes of taxpayers and information on the grace period. In addition to clarifying timelines, the tax authority also issued a new version of the schema […]

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Securities Audit – What Holders Need to Know

What is an unclaimed property securities audit? It is an audit of the holder’s equity positions (i.e., common stock) held by the shareholders of a publicly held company. These positions are recorded in an account specific to each shareholder. The accounts are generally administered by the holder’s transfer agent. These accounts include the number of […]

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Saudi Arabia: New Fines for Non-compliance with E-invoicing Rules

Phase 1 of the e-invoicing system will be live in less than three weeks. While many businesses are still implementing a solution, the Saudi tax authority continues to publish more details on their official webpage. One of the most recent announcements is about the fines the government will levy in case of non-compliance with the […]

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Turkey Expands Scope of E-Documents

The Turkish Revenue Administration (TRA) published a Draft Communique that includes significant changes to the Tax Procedure Law General Communique No. 509, which initially aimed to unify all e-document regulations when it was published in October 2019. With the Draft Communique, the TRA will lower the current gross sales revenue threshold for mandatory e-fatura and […]

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Romania E-Invoicing Mandates and Updates

Update: 3 January 2024 by Inês Carvalho Romania Issues Last-Minute Amendments to B2B E-invoicing Regulations After the implementation of Romania’s new B2B e-invoicing regulations, effective January 2024, the country introduced Government Emergency Order No. 115/2023 with last-minute amendments. We can summarise the key amendments from the new legislation in three categories: 1. Exemptions from the […]

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Italy e-invoicing: Are More Requirements on the Horizon?

Italy first introduced its e-invoicing mandate in 2019 and in 2022 they are introducing a new continuous transaction control obligation for reporting cross-border invoice data. In this episode of the Sovos Expert Series, Harri Vivian sits down with Gabriel Pezzato, Senior Regulatory Counsel at Sovos to talk through the 2022 reporting changes coming in Italy. […]

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Filing VAT Returns and Other Obligations

In our previous blog, we looked at how businesses can determine their obligations when they’re registered for VAT in other countries. We will now focus on what is required to meet those obligations. Submitting VAT returns The VAT return is the most obvious declaration that has to be submitted although as we highlighted in our […]

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The Future of Insurance Premium Tax in the UK

Although Rishi Sunak did not mention Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) in his budget on 27 October 2021, one of the consequences of the UK leaving the EU is that HM Treasury (HMT) are conducting a review of the Value Added Tax (VAT) treatment of financial services in the future, and this may have implications for […]

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VAT Obligations for Event Organisers – top tips in 4 minutes

After a tumultuous 18 months due to COVID-19, the events industry is finally bouncing back. When organising events online and in-person it is important to understand the VAT implications to avoid incurring fines and penalties down the line. Join Mathilde Dorance, Consultant at Sovos discusses the VAT implications for the events industry and the challenges […]

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Wine Ecommerce and Compliance: The Perfect Blend

Direct-to-consumer (DtC) shipping compliance has many nuanced regulations that shippers must be aware of as they look to expand their business reach. But what happens when you’re trying to integrate your ecommerce approach? Is there a way to streamline your DtC wine shipping compliance when using ecommerce solutions like Shopify?  The short answer is: yes! […]

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Unclaimed Property Reporting Season Review

This blog was updated on November 8, 2022. Congratulations, you made it through the busy October unclaimed property reporting season. Now what? Sure, you may like to forget about unclaimed property until the next reporting season comes along but that isn’t the best practice as unclaimed property compliance is a year-round job. Perform a review […]

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Is Alaska Adopting a State Sales Tax?

The old mnemonic device for remembering states without a statewide sales tax, “NOMAD” (New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, Alaska, and Delaware) might be dropping a letter. Specifically “A”, with the introduction of HB 3006 and HB 4005 in Alaska. HB 3006 and HB 4005 each includes legislative language that would implement a statewide tax on sales […]

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B2G e-Invoicing and PEPPOL in Europe and Beyond

Electronic invoicing is rapidly becoming a standard business process. Governments are pushing for the adoption of B2G invoicing to optimize the public procurement process and also to provide a boost to the adoption of e-invoicing between businesses. Apart from countries that have introduced general e-invoicing mandates to improve fiscal controls – most of which have […]

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Germany: Mandatory B2B E-Invoicing

Update: 25 June 2024 by Dilara İnal Ministry Publishes Draft Guideline on B2B E-Invoicing The German Ministry of Finance (MoF) released a draft guideline on 13 June 2024, detailing the upcoming B2B e-invoicing mandate which will roll out on 1 January 2025. Although the current law only obliges taxpayers to issue and receive e-invoices for […]

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