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September 2024 Edition
The latest issue provides a thorough overview of significant tax changes and updates across the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe, focusing on their impact on global reward structures.
In the Americas, Argentina introduces a special regime for an advance payment of the wealth tax to reduce future tax obligations until 2027. Canada's 2024 federal budget proposes changes affecting capital gains and employee stock options, impacting individuals and employers. The United States has passed a stock repurchase excise tax rule effective from January 2023.
For the Asia Pacific region, the focus is on China, where updates to the tax treatment and management of equity incentives have been announced. The preferential income tax treatment for equity incentives granted by domestic listed companies has been extended to 2027, with a 36-month deferral of the income tax payment for eligible plans.
In Europe, highlights include a decision by Germany's federal tax court on the taxation of partners in international law firms, clarifying that certain payments from a U.S. law firm to its German partners are exempt from German income tax under the U.S.-Germany income tax treaty.
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June 2024 Edition
This edition provides a thorough overview of the latest compensation and rewards developments across the globe, with specific insights from professionals in the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe.
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March 2024 Edition
Here is the latest edition of the KPMG Global Reward Services Quarterly Newsletter. This month, we've gathered insightful observations from Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Read about the SEC Settlement Window for Stock Trades in the US, guidelines on foreign-sourced income in Thailand, and changes to IRAS's Voluntary Disclosure Program in Singapore.
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December 2023 Edition
This issue features updates on a range of topics, including changes to tax laws in South Africa, California's removal of disability insurance wage base, and the new employer reporting requirements for equity income in South Korea. We also provide a reminder of the T+1 update in the United States, as well as information on changes to individual taxation in Brazil, Ireland's share options taxation for 2024, and the Netherlands' 2024 Tax plan package.
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November 2023 Edition
The Q3 edition of our Global Reward Services newsletter discusses updates to tax withholding obligations for non-resident employers in South Africa, next day deposit challenges for US payroll, multi-year sourced compensation for FICA purposes and many more updates from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Europe.
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April 2023 Edition
The latest edition of the newsletter includes compensation news from the U.S. on the SEC settlement timelines for equity plans, an update from Indonesia on the taxation of benefits-in-kind, Japan's changes to stock option requirements for start-ups, and more news from the Czech Republic, Germany, and the U.K. Read now.
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January 2023 Edition
This edition of the newsletter brings you updates from the United States on Form 1042-S errors, Employee Share Scheme updates from Australia, and more news from Asia and Europe. Plus, read about how the Global Reward Services team can help your Total Rewards program. Read now.
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October 2022 Edition
The latest edition of the newsletter brings you updates from the United States on the termination of the Hungary Tax Treaty, the latest on SEC's disclosure rules, Hong Kong's decision on equity-based compensation, and more news from the European Union, Finland, Netherlands and Switzerland. Read now.
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July 2022 Edition
The July edition of the newsletter includes news and insights from the United States on the IRS's updates for health savings plans, legislative updates from Australia on the employee share scheme, tax regime updates from Belgium, and more news from the Netherlands, and Poland. Read now.
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May 2022 Edition
Our May issue features the latest developments on the United States' delays for the issuance of ITINs, China's recent developments on IIT Policies, India's 2022 Union Budget adjustments, and more news from Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and the U.K.
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January 2022 Edition
In this new edition of our newsletter, topics covered include the latest news from the U.S. on mobile employee impacts, China's new disclosure requirement for employee share plans, updates on Hong Kong's tax treatment for equity-based compensation, and more compensation and benefits news from Europe.
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September 2021 Edition
The September edition of the Global Reward Services Newsletter looks into South Africa's new process supporting breaking tax residency, Canada's new "hybrid" methodology for Cross-Border RSUs, updates on the U.S. and Switzerland's competent authority arrangement, and more news from Australia, Hong Kong, Finland, and Ireland.
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June 2021 Edition
In the June newsletter, we provide observations on several tax topics from the United States, including multistate reporting of compensation, employer's role in Rescue Act COBRA subsidies, and more. We look into Australia's employee share scheme reporting and South Korea's modifications to income tax rates and tax exemptions, plus the latest in tax and compensation news from Greece, Switzerland, and the U.K.
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March 2021 Edition
The March newsletter looks into Canada's updates to the Tax Treatment of Employment Stock options, the United States' recent compensation and benefits-related provisions in the COVID-19 Relief Bill, China's potential changes to IIT Preferential Treatment, and more news and insights from around the world.
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September 2021 Edition
The September edition of the Global Reward Services Newsletter looks into South Africa's new process supporting breaking tax residency, Canada's new "hybrid" methodology for Cross-Border RSUs, updates on the U.S. and Switzerland's competent authority arrangement, and more news from Australia, Hong Kong, Finland, and Ireland.
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June 2021 Edition
In the June newsletter, we provide observations on several tax topics from the United States, including multistate reporting of compensation, employer's role in Rescue Act COBRA subsidies, and more. We look into Australia's employee share scheme reporting and South Korea's modifications to income tax rates and tax exemptions, plus the latest in tax and compensation news from Greece, Switzerland, and the U.K.
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March 2021 Edition
The March newsletter looks into Canada's updates to the Tax Treatment of Employment Stock options, the United States' recent compensation and benefits-related provisions in the COVID-19 Relief Bill, China's potential changes to IIT Preferential Treatment, and more news and insights from around the world.
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December 2020 Edition
In this latest edition, we look into Canada's T4 reporting requirements, the United States SEC disclosure on Human Capital Management, Australia's tax authorities' plans for data matching compliance, and more news and insights from around the world.
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November 2020 Edition
In the latest edition of the Global Reward Services Newsletter, we look into the United States' generic legal advice memorandum (GLAM) on income inclusion, Brazil's newly published threshold requirements, and more reward-related updates from Asia/Pacific and Europe.
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July 2020 Edition
This edition of the Global Reward Services Newsletter looks into COVID-19 spot survey findings, and provides insights into other top-of-mind tax, compensation and benefits news from the Americas, Asia/Pacific and European countries.
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March 2020 Edition
The March issue of the Global Reward Services newsletter features articles on Canada's proposed changes to the tax treatment of employee stock options, Australia's recommendations for tax residency, plus the latest developments from the People's Republic of China, the European Union and more.
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