Winter has arrived and with it Christmas is getting closer and closer. Most of all, it means having a good time with family and friends. At the same time, the holidays can also be very busy: the last gifts need to be wrapped, Christmas dinner is on the stove, pets have to be kept away from the Christmas tree and at the same time children try to steal cookies. We, Schmidt & Schmidt, traditionally summarize the past year on the eve of the new year and at Christmas and define plans for the future. The year 2021 offered our company a multitude of opportunities for further development and became a year full of successes, new achievements as well as challenges and difficulties overcome.
Almost nine months after parliamentary elections in the Netherlands were held, the parties that were part of the previous government agreed on a new coalition agreement. The new coalition government's plans include various tax reforms.
The Crown Court of Southwark (London, UK) fined NatWest (formerly Royal Bank of Scotland) £ 264 million for failing to prevent money laundering in the total amount of about £ 365 million. This case was the first of its kind in modern British history.
The technical regulation relates to the requirements for marking and regulations for their use as well as forms, schemes and procedures for conformity assessment in the form of, for example, EAC certification or EAC declaration
The Cyprus Ministry of Finance is preparing a comprehensive tax reform, the corporate tax rate will increase from 12.5% to 15%, taking into account the global tax reform of the OECD.
From March 1, 2022, official documents of Uzbekistan can be certified with an electronic apostille. The corresponding regulations have been developed by the government of the country.
Employees of the Ministry of Justice of Moldova now process an average of about 1000 applications for apostilization per day, while earlier this figure was about 300 applications.
The US Treasury Department has proposed creating a special registry that will help close loopholes that allow organized crime, terrorists and corrupt officials to launder dirty money through shell companies.
Sworn translators in the Netherlands are demanding higher wages and criticizing the policy of the country's authorities on issues related to official translation.
