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Saudi Arabia acceded to the Madrid Protocol on 8 July 2026 and the Protocol entered into force for Saudi Arabia on 8 October 2026, so international trademark applications can now designate Saudi Arabia.
Mercosur-EFTA free trade agreement quotas apply in Brazil from 1 October 2026 for goods originating in Iceland and from 1 November 2026 for Norway; Switzerland and Liechtenstein had not completed their national procedures.
Ontario's general minimum wage is CAD 17.95 per hour from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027, up from CAD 17.60.
From 1 October 2026 the time limit for most employment tribunal claims rose from 3 to 6 months, and from 30 October 2026 employers are under a duty to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, alongside trade union recognition and access reforms.
From 1 October 2026, international trademark applications based on US filings are filed through WIPO's Madrid e-Filing service.
A merger must be notified to the CCPC before it is put into effect if, in the most recent financial year, the undertakings' combined turnover in the State is at least EUR 60 million and at least two of them each have State turnover of at least EUR 10 million.
The Information Commissioner's Office as a corporation sole was abolished and its functions moved to the Information Commission, a body corporate with a board, from 30 September 2026.
Rules that take effect in the next six months, from the effective dates in WONE Global's checked guides.
For platform work relationships entered into before and still ongoing on 2 December 2026, the presumption of employment applies only to the period starting from that date.
Under the consumption tax reform, IPI is kept from 2027 only to preserve the competitiveness of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (Zona Franca de Manaus).
A revised Trademark Law was adopted on 26 June 2026 and takes effect on 1 January 2027; until then the law as amended in 2019 applies.
The statutory minimum wage rises to EUR 14.60 gross per hour from 1 January 2027.
Law 526 of 28 May 2026 sets economic substance requirements for Panamanian entities of multinational groups earning foreign-source passive income; entities that fail them pay a definitive 15% tax on that net income instead of 0%.
Royal Decree-Law 15/2025 deferred the Verifactu invoicing-system obligation to 1 January 2027 for corporate income taxpayers and to 1 July 2027 for other obligated taxpayers.
Employees in England, Scotland and Wales usually need 2 years' service to claim unfair dismissal; for dismissals from 1 January 2027 this falls to 6 months for most employees.
The UAE e-invoicing system (Ministerial Decisions No. 243 and 244 of 2025) requires businesses with annual revenue of AED 50 million or more to appoint an accredited service provider by 31 July 2026 and implement by 1 January 2027; businesses below that revenue must appoint by 31 March 2027 and implement by 1 July 2027.
Taxpayers whose VAT-able revenues exceeded SAR 187,500 in 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025 are targeted in Wave 25 and must integrate with Fatoora by 1 February 2027.
The United Arab Emirates acceded to the Singapore Convention on Mediation on 8 October 2026, and the Convention enters into force for the UAE on 8 April 2027.
The law may not have changed; our research about it was updated. Each item is a guide topic whose statements were checked against sources again.
A QFC entity is taxed at a flat 10% on its taxable profit, and the QFC tax regime treats profits as local source if they arise in or derive from Qatar.
The IRS list of the United States income tax treaties does not include Panama, so there is no US-Panama income tax treaty.
The IRS list of the United States income tax treaties includes Mexico.
Foreign-sourced dividends received in Singapore by a resident company are exempt from Singapore tax if they were subject to tax in the source country, the source country's headline corporate tax rate is at least 15%, and the Comptroller is satisfied the exemption is beneficial.
The Thailand-Japan double taxation convention was signed on 7 April 1990 and applies to withholding taxes on amounts paid on or after 1 January 1991.
For tax purposes a UK limited company must keep its records for 6 years from the end of the last company financial year they relate to, and longer in some cases.
The EU stop-the-clock directive postponed CSRD reporting by two years: large undertakings not yet reporting now start with financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027, and listed SMEs with financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2028.
A UK private company that needs an audit must appoint an auditor for each financial year, normally by ordinary resolution of the members within 28 days after the previous year's accounts are sent out or due to be sent out; the directors may appoint the first auditor and fill a casual vacancy.
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board was established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to oversee the audit of companies that are subject to the US securities laws, to protect investors and the public interest.
Under NDRC Order No. 11, outbound investments involving sensitive countries, regions or sectors need NDRC approval before implementation, and other outbound investments are filed; a local enterprise files with its provincial development and reform department where the Chinese investment amount is below USD 300 million, and with the NDRC where it is USD 300 million or more or the investor is a centrally administered enterprise.
The Saudi Arabia-Korea income tax convention was signed on 24 March 2007 and entered into force on 1 December 2008.
Companies governed by the law of an EU Member State whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market in any Member State must prepare their consolidated accounts under adopted international accounting standards (IFRS as endorsed in the EU).
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