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We are delighted to share with you another edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

After a short hibernation, we are back and delighted to share with you another edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance. In this month’s edition, we have included the following articles: 1) Hybrid Disclosures - new requirements; 2) Withholding taxes and Pillar 2; 3) Temporary Customer Compliance Manager ("tCCM") Scheme; 4) Short Term Business Visitors (“STBVs”); 5) General Court Decision on UK CFC State Aid; 6) Substantial Shareholding Exemption and Joint Ventures; and 7) Introduction of a federal corporate tax in UAE.

The Handbook has been designed to help navigate and explain the myriad of specific life insurance tax legislation. It is to provide an introduction to the many and varied rules relating to the taxation of life insurance businesses.

Welcome to another edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

In this month’s edition, we have included the following articles: 1) European Commission publishes 'Business Taxation for the 21st Century’; 2) As optimistic CEOs eye a return to growth, what does this mean for tax compliance? 3) Life Insurance Tax Handbook –2021 Refresh; and 4) Getting value from R&D Tax Credits: The Importance of Competent Professionals.

Welcome to our latest edition of Keeping up with Tax for Insurance.

Welcome to our latest edition of Keeping up with Tax for Insurance.

After a challenging 12 months, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered the much anticipated 2021 Budget.  A summary of the proposed measures and potential impacts for the Insurance sector are detailed in this article.

Welcome to our latest edition of Keeping up with Tax for Insurance.

For this month's edition, we have included the following articles: 1) Making Tax Digital for Corporate Tax - Consultation Document Released; 2) How to stay ahead of the game and prepare for increasing scrutiny on intra-group arrangements; 3) BlackRock HoldCo 5 LLC v HMRC - A “just and reasonable” approach to main purposes; 4) ‘Tis the season to be jolly? The tax considerations for throwing a (virtual) Christmas party; 5) Updates to the Specified Supplies Order (1999): VAT on Financial Services Provided to the EU; and 6) Corporate Governance Update.

In this month’s edition, we present the following articles to keep you up to date with latest developments: 1) Operational Transfer Pricing; 2) IR35: Back on the agenda - are you ready; 3) Tax governance and risk management; 4) The R&D tax incentives regime - trends and important changes; 5) Solvency II - summary of the call for evidence; and 6) Intra-group financing and the OECD financial transactions paper.

Welcome to our summer edition of KUWT for Insurance. I know that many of you are still working from home, but we are starting to see the path out of lockdown, and some of our team have now started to return to the office.

In this month’s edition, we present the following articles: Senior Accounting Officer: do you have a deadline on the horizon? Corporate governance response to COVID-19 and its future The benefits of real time R&D claims Operational Resilience: How to deliver on your tax needs and remain resilient Update on non-resident capital gains tax HMRC Time to Pay (TTP) Update

We've attached our latest edition of KUWT for Insurance. As usual, we have a packed edition this month covering the latest updates on a number of open technical issues.

We’ve attached our latest edition of KUWT for Insurance. Needless to say, the last month has been extraordinary and I’m sure many of you, like us, have had to transition to new working environments and practices.

The Budget highlighted a number of fiscal measures which will affect both businesses and individuals and we have highlighted key issues affecting the Financial Services industry below. Given the potentially wide range of changes, please do let us know if you would like a meeting or call to discuss any of the topics or consultations below further.

Welcome to our international edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance. As promised in our previous edition, we have broadened our horizons this month and asked our PwC network of firms to provide you with updates on topical tax matters in key insurance territories around the globe. This is our most comprehensive international edition yet, and we hope you find the breadth of content in here informative and helpful!

We are pleased to present the February edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance. As we write this, the UK has just exited from the European Union. The long term implications of this change are still emerging, but we will of course provide insights on the implications for insurers as these become clear starting with an article this month on the transfer pricing implications.

We are pleased to present the December edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Welcome to our November edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance. As usual (or at least usual right now!), it’s been another very busy month in UK politics. We had originally intended to make this edition a ‘budget special’ to provide full coverage on what promised to be a fascinating Budget 2019, with a Halloween Brexit already a memory. However, Parliament had other ideas, and the UK is now heading into a general election on 12 December. In the meantime, there's been plenty going on in the world of tax and insurance and we have as usual highlighted key developments. In particular, the recent issue of the GRI reporting standards for tax and further clarifications on the proposed EU public country by country reporting standards may impact significantly on tax (and wider) reporting required/advised for insurance groups. We have summarised the headlines from these measures and steps insurers may wish to take. Otherwise, this edition includes a number of articles on recent or shortly upcoming developments in tax, including further guidance on IR35, the Irish finance bill and a number of developments on stamp taxes. Our articles are as follows: Public CbCR and GRI Standard IR35 - 5 months to go Irish Finance Bill 2019 The life insurance protection gap - is auto-enrolment the answer? Portuguese Stamp Tax new reporting obligations PRA Consultation Paper 26/19 I hope you enjoy the articles that we have put together, and as always please get in touch with me or your PwC team if there is anything that you would like to discuss further, or if you would like to attend one of our events.

Welcome to our October edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance, and what could be our last edition with the UK as a member of the European Union (although we have said that before!).

Business structures and the process of value creation have evolved in part through the digitalization of the global economy. Such evolution has posed broad tax challenges which the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is currently evaluating. Sometimes referred to as BEPS 2.0, the OECD is examining various proposals concerning changes to current profit allocation and nexus rules, as well as a global minimum tax, which were first detailed in a consultation document. Additionally, on 31 May 2019, the OECD released a work plan, Programme of Work to Develop a Consensus Solution to the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy, stating that it expects to provide a long-term, consensus-based solution in 2020. A further document, as well as a public consultation, are expected later this year. In addition to the OECD’s efforts, separate unilateral measures addressing the digitalization of the economy have been introduced by a variety of countries, including France and the United Kingdom.

Welcome back to the September edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance!

Our summer FS tax accounting update covered current affairs topics including an update from half year reporting, IFRS 16 and IFRIC 23. If you would like to discuss any of these areas in more detail, please get in touch with any of the contacts listed in the attached slides or your usual PwC contact.

As previously trialled in the 2018 Budget, the Taxation of Regulatory Capital Securities Regulations  (“the Regulatory Capital Regulations”) have been revoked and replaced with new tax rules introduced by Finance Act 2019 with effect from 1 January 2019 (the “Hybrid Capital Instrument Rules”). 

The old Regulations allowed banking and insurance groups to obtain certainty as to the deductibility of coupon payments on regulatory instruments.  These Regulations also contain a stamp duty exemption, and also dealt with a number of other issues discussed further below.

We are pleased to present you with our exciting June edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Our May tax accounting update covers topics ranging from tax transparency to the increased focus on governance and controls.

Our May 2019 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Our March 2019 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Our February 2019 international edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Our January 2019 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Our December 2018 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance

Our November 2018 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

hilip Hammond delivered the Autumn Budget this afternoon, highlighting a number of fiscal measures which will affect both business and personal finances. We have highlighted key issues affecting financial services businesses

Our October 2018 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurance.

Our first September 2018 edition of Keeping Up with Tax for Insurers.

In addition to the launch of our recent report – Mandatory UK gender pay reporting – the story so far, which explores the detail behind the headline statistics and the positive actions that companies are taking to improve their gender pay gap, this Insight summaries our gender pay analysis for the insurance sector.

Our November tax accounting update covered topics ranging from VAT in financial statements to the impacts of structural reform and Brexit.