Nexia Global Insight October 2019

CON­TENTS:

For­eign Di­rect In­vest­ment

• In­dia’s buoyant M&A land­scape
• UK at the FDI cross­roads
• Af­rica’s gro­wing for­eign in­vest­ment in­flows
• Grea­ter le­gal cla­rity around mi­ning nee­ded to help Gua­te­mala at­tract in­ward in­vest­ment

Glo­bal trade

• Op­por­tu­nities open up af­ter free trade deal agreed bet­ween EU and Mer­cosur coun­tries 
• Pan-Af­ri­can free trade agree­ment will drive eco­no­mic growth

Fo­cus on... Bra­zil

• Re­forms aim to sti­mu­late Bra­zi­lian eco­nomy

In­ter­na­tio­nal ta­xa­tion

• US sta­tes ac­ce­le­rate tax law chan­ges
• In­dia scraps plans for tax hike on for­eign in­ves­tors
• UK land and pro­perty in­vest­ment land­scape is ever-chan­ging for non-re­si­dents

Sec­tor in­sight: fi­nan­cial ser­vices

• The fu­ture of fi­nance: is dis­rup­tion over?

News briefs

• Ride-sha­ring ser­vices – a ta­xing con­tra­dic­tion
• For­eign com­pa­nies re­or­ga­nise sub­si­dia­ries to avoid dou­ble-tax is­sues in Tu­ni­sia
• Malta in­tro­du­ces new pa­tent box re­gime ru­les
• Bra­zi­lian firms look for al­ter­na­tive so­lu­ti­ons to pain­ful ju­di­cial re­struc­tu­ring
• Ame­ri­can po­licy change on French ta­xes
• New Ze­aland to launch ‘Ama­zon tax’