Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has expanded if tax coverage to more than 200 countries. International tools include a VAT Navigator that provides covers global VAT, GST, and sales tax laws and practices on a country-by-country basis.
There are Country Guides that offer country-specific overviews of direct tax regimes. These are written by in-country experts and cover topics such corporate taxation, important miscellaneous direct taxes, special tax regimes, and mandatory disclosure rules.
An International Withholding Tax Chart Builder compares withholding tax consequences of investing or providing services in multiple countries. The tool displays domestic and treaty rates for different types of income streams and payments and also provides direct links to relevant treaty articles.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind