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Tuesday, 1 September 2026 Global Indirect Tax · VAT · GST · E-invoicing

The global tax changelog — release notes for indirect-tax systems, sourced from official records

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Aug 31, 2026 · Europe · Middle East & Africa · Asia-Pacific · Americas · 33 updates

Thailand keeps its 7% VAT with weeks to spare, and three 1 October cuts still have no law (Week of August 31, 2026)

Thailand gazetted the decree extending its reduced 7% VAT to September 2027, five weeks before the statutory 10% would have taken over. Uganda's registration threshold turns out to be UGX 300 million, not the 250 million on record. Tanzania's Finance Act yields three further VAT limbs on a full reading. And three separate 1 October measures — the UK's electricity zero-rate, Barbados's threshold rise and British Columbia's PST expansion — still have no legislation behind them.

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Aug 24, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Mauritius adds seven more VAT limbs, the UAE makes you vet your suppliers (Week of August 24, 2026)

Mauritius's Finance Act keeps giving — seven further VAT limbs, most of them live on 1 October; the UAE makes input-tax recovery conditional on checking who you bought from; Botswana quietly made electronic invoices compulsory for everyone; and Maryland's digital advertising tax is struck down.

23 updates

Aug 17, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Mauritius zero-rates e-books and drops the salt promise, Sweden's food VAT falls to 6% (Week of August 17, 2026)

Mauritius's Finance Act 2026 enacts the digital-services easing, zero-rates electronic books and quietly leaves common salt out; Sweden's food VAT is down to 6%; Hungary puts a date on the firewood cut; and Switzerland's VAT referendum is set for 29 November.

37 updates

Aug 10, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Thailand’s 7% rate runs out of road, Egypt cuts medical-equipment VAT to 5% (Week of August 10, 2026)

Thailand’s reduced 7% VAT rate expires on 30 September with no successor decree gazetted; Egypt enacts a 5% rate for production machinery and medical devices; Montenegro replaces its entire VAT statute; and Burundi cuts its registration threshold to a quarter of its old level.

28 updates

Aug 3, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Brazil dates its new VATs to the invoice, France scraps the state portal (Week of August 3, 2026)

Brazil fixes mandatory CBS/IBS start dates for every electronic fiscal document, beginning 3 August; France abolishes the Portail Public de Facturation five weeks before its e-invoicing go-live; and France, Malaysia and Hungary all soften a mandate in the same month.

30 updates

Jul 27, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

ZATCA halves the Wave 25 threshold, South Africa doubles its digital-services trigger (Week of July 27, 2026)

ZATCA cuts the Wave 25 e-invoicing threshold to SAR 187,500 with a 1 February 2027 deadline; South Africa lifts its non-resident electronic-services VAT threshold to R2.3 million while Zimbabwe switches to withholding at source; Utah and California bring SaaS into sales tax.

36 updates

Jul 20, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Sri Lanka's enacted VAT Act corrects the record, Kentucky drops its transaction test (Week of July 20, 2026)

Sri Lanka’s VAT (Amendment) Act No. 14 of 2026 reverses two figures earlier reported at bill stage; Kentucky simplifies economic nexus to a revenue-only test; Tanzania makes marketplaces the deemed supplier of electronic services.

23 updates

Jul 13, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Essentials VAT cuts sweep Europe as e-invoicing regimes get a mid-year overhaul

Austria, Denmark, the Isle of Man and Mauritius cut VAT on everyday essentials; Argentina, Romania, Kosovo and the UAE overhaul their e-invoicing rules; and Gibraltar, Botswana and Moldova bring new indirect taxes into force — each tied to its official source.

13 updates

Jul 8, 2026

EU · APAC · AMER

Compliance tightens in India and the Philippines as Hungary and Illinois ease the load

A quiet early-July week of administrative change — India mandates a new Ship-to GSTIN field in its e-invoice APIs, the Philippines tightens VAT on non-resident digital services, Hungary shelves stricter invoice-level reporting, and Illinois opens a remote-retailer sales-tax amnesty — each tied to its official source.

4 updates

Jul 2, 2026

MEA · APAC · AMER

Egypt cuts medical VAT as a fresh 1 July digital-tax and e-invoicing wave lands

Egypt's parliament cuts medical-equipment VAT to 5%, Sri Lanka taxes non-resident digital services and lifts its financial-services rate, the UAE opens its e-invoicing pilot, and US counties raise sales tax from 1 July 2026 — each linked to its official source.

8 updates

Jun 26, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

Mid-year Finance Acts and a 1 July e-invoicing wave

Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mauritius and Nepal pass mid-year Finance Acts and Norway enacts mandatory B2B e-invoicing, as VAT, GST and e-invoicing changes cluster around 1 July 2026 — each linked to its official source.

27 updates

Jun 18, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

A 25-jurisdiction VAT/GST wave comes into force around 1 July 2026

About 25 confirmed indirect-tax changes cluster around 1 July 2026 — Ireland's 9% hospitality cut, Latvia's 12% food rate, Bangladesh's pesticide zero-rating, e-invoicing go-lives across Argentina, Brazil, Oman, Paraguay, Romania and Denmark, plus a wave of African e-invoicing and threshold changes (Burkina Faso, Congo, Gabon, Lesotho, Uganda) — each linked to its official source.

25 updates

Jun 16, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC

Europe's e-invoicing wave firms up, and the EU sets a low-value parcel duty

Saudi Arabia, France, Spain and Poland lock in e-invoicing deadlines, the EU sets a €3 duty on low-value parcels from 1 July 2026, and Bangladesh's FY2026-27 budget proposes halving appliance VAT — each linked to its official source.

7 updates

Jun 9, 2026

EU · MEA · AMER

Spain's energy VAT reverts to 21%, and Botswana taxes remote services

Spain lets its electricity and gas VAT relief expire back to 21%, Botswana brings non-resident digital services into the VAT base, and Guatemala switches VAT filing to its Agencia Virtual — each linked to its source.

4 updates

Jun 2, 2026

APAC · AMER

Argentina defers e-invoicing to August; Uzbekistan adds an optional 6% VAT and lifts its threshold

Argentina's ARCA postponed its new CAEA-as-contingency-only e-invoicing regime from 1 June to 1 August 2026, while Uzbekistan introduced an optional 6% VAT and raised its VAT registration threshold to UZS 5 billion from 1 June — each linked to its official source.

3 updates

May 24, 2026

Two summer VAT cuts — UK family days out, Austrian groceries

On the same day, two governments cut VAT to ease household costs: the UK drops to 5% on children’s meals, tickets and family attractions, and Austria introduces a 4.9% rate on staple foods. Each linked to its official source.

4 updates

May 19, 2026

EU · MEA

Poland extends fuel-VAT relief; DR Congo and Eswatini move on e-invoicing

Poland extends its temporary 8% fuel VAT to 31 May 2026, DR Congo ends its normalised-invoice moratorium with sanctions from 15 May, and Eswatini launches its TaxCore e-invoicing programme — each linked to its official source.

3 updates

May 10, 2026

MEA · APAC

Qatar moves on e-invoicing

A quiet week with one signal worth marking: Qatar's Cabinet approved a draft e-invoicing law and its executive regulations, laying the legal groundwork before any technical rollout. Linked to its official source.

6 updates

May 3, 2026

EU · MEA · APAC · AMER

A 1 May reset — Liberia's GST rises, Belgium rewires its VAT chain

Two 1 May milestones: Liberia lifts its services GST from 12% to 13% on the road to a 2027 VAT, and Belgium switches its VAT current account to the new provision account. Each linked to its official source.

11 updates

Apr 26, 2026

EU · APAC · AMER

Compliance plumbing — POS pairing, tariff refunds and offline GST tooling

No rate changes this week — instead three tax authorities shipped the plumbing: Italy pairs cash registers to card terminals, US CBP opens consolidated tariff refunds, and India ships an offline GST invoice tool. Each linked to its official source.

5 updates

Apr 19, 2026

MEA · APAC · AMER

Fuel-tax relief from Nairobi to La Paz

Kenya halves fuel VAT, the Philippines suspends LPG and kerosene excise, and Bolivia restores the full fuel VAT credit — three governments reaching for the indirect-tax lever to cool energy costs, each linked to its official source.

5 updates

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Last Week in Taxes

Thailand keeps its 7% VAT with weeks to spare, and three 1 October cuts still have no law (Week of August 31, 2026)

Mauritius adds seven more VAT limbs, the UAE makes you vet your suppliers (Week of August 24, 2026)

Mauritius zero-rates e-books and drops the salt promise, Sweden's food VAT falls to 6% (Week of August 17, 2026)

Thailand’s 7% rate runs out of road, Egypt cuts medical-equipment VAT to 5% (Week of August 10, 2026)

Brazil dates its new VATs to the invoice, France scraps the state portal (Week of August 3, 2026)

ZATCA halves the Wave 25 threshold, South Africa doubles its digital-services trigger (Week of July 27, 2026)

Sri Lanka's enacted VAT Act corrects the record, Kentucky drops its transaction test (Week of July 20, 2026)

Essentials VAT cuts sweep Europe as e-invoicing regimes get a mid-year overhaul

Compliance tightens in India and the Philippines as Hungary and Illinois ease the load

Egypt cuts medical VAT as a fresh 1 July digital-tax and e-invoicing wave lands

Mid-year Finance Acts and a 1 July e-invoicing wave

A 25-jurisdiction VAT/GST wave comes into force around 1 July 2026

Europe's e-invoicing wave firms up, and the EU sets a low-value parcel duty

Spain's energy VAT reverts to 21%, and Botswana taxes remote services

Argentina defers e-invoicing to August; Uzbekistan adds an optional 6% VAT and lifts its threshold

Two summer VAT cuts — UK family days out, Austrian groceries

Poland extends fuel-VAT relief; DR Congo and Eswatini move on e-invoicing

Qatar moves on e-invoicing

A 1 May reset — Liberia's GST rises, Belgium rewires its VAT chain

Compliance plumbing — POS pairing, tariff refunds and offline GST tooling

Fuel-tax relief from Nairobi to La Paz

Validate tax IDs in 100+ countries