On 19 October 2026 the UAE Ministry of Finance announced Ministerial Decision No. 197 of 2026. Transactions inside a VAT tax group are excluded from e-invoicing for 24 months from 1 January 2027, and e-invoice data no longer has...
On 19 October 2026 Ireland's Department of Finance published the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2026. It writes the...
Read moreA Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs, released on 19 October 2026, finds that only 13% say their enterprise has...
Read moreOn 14 October 2026 MAS kept the slope, width and centre of the Singapore dollar policy band unchanged. Core...
Read moreOn 16 October 2026 Hong Kong gazetted a bill that allows profits tax deductions for IP...
Read moreOn 30 September 2026 the Ministry of Finance put 2027 spending at about SAR 1,392 billion...
Read moreOn 7 October 2026 the Reserve Bank of India raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to...
Read moreOn 16 September 2026 the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds target range by 25...
Read moreThe 2027 draft budget, presented on 7 October 2026, cuts corporate income tax from 16% to 15% and the SME rate from 14% to 13%, raises the investment tax credit to 21% and targets a 0.6% deficit.
On 15 September 2026 the Dutch government presented its 2027 budget: a 2.9% deficit, debt rising to 46.9% of GDP, EUR 1.4 billion of fuel excise relief and a EUR 1.5 billion purchasing power package.
The Chancellor delivers the Budget on Wednesday 28 October. No measures are confirmed, but HMRC's June tax update shows which changes are already in the pipeline.
The Swiss Transparency Register opened on 1 October 2026. Companies have between one month and two years to report the people who control them, depending on their type.
In February 2026 the Central Bank of the UAE issued guidance on responsible AI and machine learning for licensed financial institutions. It is not legally binding, but supervisors will use it, and it sets clear expectations on board accountability, bias testing, customer disclosure and human review.
Budget 2027, announced on 6 October 2026, widens the standard rate band to EUR 46,500, raises the main tax credits by EUR 125 and introduces a 7% derelict property tax.
On 19 October 2026 the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority published examples of good and poor practice in the use of AI by regulated firms. It flags governance added after deployment, weak records and box-ticking human review. The FCA also said incident reporting should cover significant AI failures and near-misses.
IRAS and IMDA will bring all GST-registered businesses onto the InvoiceNow network in four yearly phases from 1 April 2028 to 1 April 2031, starting with the smallest.
On 17 September 2026 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised the Base Rate to 4.25%, following a 25-basis-point rise in the US federal funds target range.
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