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Press release - 2012 Benchmarking Survey on VAT/GST   Despite the continued shift to indirect taxation globally, a majority of businesses still don’t have effective global VAT/GST management practices in place: KPMG International   Zagreb, 18.05.2012.- Despite the shift to indirect tax globally a new survey released by KPMG International shows that businesses are simply not keeping pace. In fact, according to KPMG International’s 2012 Benchmarking Survey on VAT/GST, VAT/GST continues to be under-resourced, under-managed and under-measured by the majority of global businesses.

Press release - Global Transfer Pricing Review 2012   Heightened government scrutiny leads to rapidly evolving transfer pricing rules and regulations Zagreb, 18.05.2012. - Long-term growth in international trade, combined with the challenging global economic environment and growing fiscal deficits, has many governments focused on tax base protection. According to KPMG International’s Global Transfer Pricing Review, this trend has heightened government scrutiny of transfer pricing matters, including issues such as attribution of losses, business restructuring, intellectual property migration and intercompany financing transactions.

KPMG studija: Individual Income Tax and Social Security Rate Survey 2011   Croatia maintains high personal income tax and employee social security rates 20-10-2011 - Of the 96 countries from around the world surveyed by KPMG in the 2011 edition of its Personal Income Tax and Social Security Survey, on gross income of USD 100,000 Croatia recorded the third highest effective combined personal income tax and social security rate of 45.2%.

CEE Property Lending Barometer 2010   “Are banks more willing to finance real estate in CEE?” 20-12-2010 - The financing of Central and Eastern European real estate has shown signs of improvement over the last 12 months but the situation remains uncertain. There has been a significant increase in real estate investment transactions compared to 2010, but the performance of real estate has varied greatly across the different countries and asset classes.