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COVID-19 Paid Leave Tax Credits – An Update - ECOVIS International

COVID-19 Paid Leave Tax Credits – An Update

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “FFCRA”), enacted by Congress on March 18, 2020, required most employers to provide employees with paid leave in certain situations connected with the COVID-19 pandemic (the “FFCRA Mandate”). To offset the cost of...
International Quality Standards for Auditors: Uruguay - ECOVIS International

International Quality Standards for Auditors: Uruguay

The International Quality Control Standard 1 (ISQC) deals with the responsibilities that an audit firm has in relation to its quality control system of its assignments, whether they are audits, review of financial statements and other assignments related to granting...
Simplification of Administrative Procedures in Guatemala - ECOVIS International

Simplification of Administrative Procedures in Guatemala

The proposal or initiative of Law 5766 for the simplification of requirements for administrative procedures that we hope will be published in May 2021 follows the same philosophy that the most advanced economies in the region have implemented in the...
VAT on foreign services rendered - ECOVIS International

VAT on foreign services rendered

Those who provide services from abroad to residents in Colombia, as a general rule, will have the legal obligation to register with the Colombian tax authority as "service providers from abroad", in addition to passing on and collecting VAT on...
Audit considerations during Covid-19 - ECOVIS International

Audit considerations during Covid-19

Recently the IFAC (International Federation of Accountants), International Federation of Accountants in Spanish, issued certain considerations related to the safe audit of financial statements in times of Covid-19. These are situations that matter to the auditors but also to those...
Mexico Tax Reform 2021 - ECOVIS International

Mexico Tax Reform 2021

For the Tax Reform of the 2021 fiscal year, the Executive presented on September 8, 2020, to the Congress of the Union, the respective Economic Package, which includes proposals for the fiscal Miscellaneous regarding the Income Tax Law (LISR ),...
Presidential Elections, Tax Chaos - ECOVIS International

Presidential Elections, Tax Chaos

The upcoming U.S. election on November 3 will not only seat a President for the next four years, it will also establish which party controls both houses of the U.S. Congress, and with control, the ability of the President and...
The Pareto Principle - ECOVIS International

The Pareto Principle

Let's do an Audit with Pareto Principle. Nowadays, time is conceived as a limited resource and, insofar as it is managed efficiently, it can become an investment rather than an expense, resulting in the generation of returns and tangible value....
Audit in a health emergency - ECOVIS International

Audit in a health emergency

The worldwide health emergency situation, and particularly in Uruguay, has affected practically all activities. The auditors' work is no exception. During an audit, auditors must (to meet the objective of being able to issue an opinion on the reasonable presentation...
Mitigating the impact of GILTI - ECOVIS International

Mitigating the impact of GILTI

Section 962 Election, U.S. Blocker Corporation, or Check-the-box? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 introduced a new IRC section 951A, which requires a United States Shareholder (U.S. Shareholder) of a Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) to include for...
Digital Tax: Chile - ECOVIS International

Digital Tax: Chile

Law 21210 of February 24, 2020 in its article 35 A of the new paragraph 7 bis of the Law on Sales and Services Tax establishes that taxpayers not domiciled or residing in Chile that render services taxed according to...
Use of data analysis for auditing - ECOVIS International

Use of data analysis for auditing

Reality or fiction? It is the beginning of a new year which leads to reflection and goal setting. As auditing professionals, it is important to question performance and how to keep improving in the vocation, which makes us wonder: is...
Modifications to the tax system in Paraguay - ECOVIS International

Modifications to the tax system in Paraguay

According to official data, Paraguay has a total population of 6,873,496 inhabitants. From this total, the total Economically Active Population (PEA) is 3,465,976, which corresponds to approximately 50% of the total population. As of December 31, 2019, the total number...
Market development of the cannabis in Peru - ECOVIS International

Market development of the cannabis in Peru

It has been three years since the incident which altered the perception and use of Cannabis in Peru. It is important to conduct an analysis of the current situation, both inside and outside of the country, in order to take...
Foreign Tax Credits and Various Operating Structures - ECOVIS International

Foreign Tax Credits and Various Operating Structures

For U.S. companies undergoing international expansion, there are a number of important issues to consider prior to commencing operations in a foreign jurisdiction. A principal consideration is the type of foreign entity through which the U.S. company will be conducting...
Investment projects in the Mexican energy sector - ECOVIS International

Investment projects in the Mexican energy sector

The Federal Government has promoted the construction of new infrastructure and the improvement of the existing one in the energy sector, seeking to turn the country into a world-class logistics platform, promoting a balanced regional development, as well as sustainable...
Tax treatment of a non-residential alien - ECOVIS International

Tax treatment of a non-residential alien

Letʼs start by discussing, in general terms, how the U.S. taxes a nonresident alien. A foreign national who has neither a green card nor satisfies the Substantial Presence Test is considered to be a “U.S. nonresident.” As a U.S. nonresident,...
New international standards in auditing - ECOVIS International

New international standards in auditing

The main changes to the International Standards on Auditing (ISA) were not superficial, since they include reforms designed to significantly improve audit reports for investors and other users of financial statements (banks, shareholders, customers, suppliers, the government sector, etc.). In...
Digital transformation at a glance - ECOVIS International

Digital transformation at a glance

Digital transformation is changing entire organizations as it opens the doors for many opportunities. Numerous market forces are driving the need for digital transformation. Many companies have embarked on complex digital transformation journeys, encompassing all aspects of their business to...
Panama: a former tax haven - ECOVIS International

Panama: a former tax haven

On March 13, 2019, after intense analysis and dialogue, the finance ministers from the European Union removed Panama from the list of “tax haven” countries. This means that Panama is no longer categorized under the list of countries labelled “non...
Canada: the great white north - ECOVIS International

Canada: the great white north

Canada has been a very attractive country for foreign investment for a long time. There are many reasons for this including, a very stable political system, successive governments that encourage foreign investments, a stable banking system that weathered the financial...