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Hong Kong enacts legislation to allow a tax deduction for foreign taxes charged on gross income basis

22 June 2021

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Tax Alerts, Legislation & Policy, National/Federal Taxation

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong enacted the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021 (the New Law) on 11 June 2021.1 The New Law allows a tax deduction for foreign taxes charged on a gross income basis and applies to tax years beginning on or after 1 April 2021.Many stakeholders had lobbied the Hong Kong Government to reinstate the Inland Revenue Department’s previous assessing practice of allowing a tax deduction for foreign taxes charged and paid on a gross income basis in respect of all types of income. Stakeholders noted that the reinstatement of this practice, which had applied up until June 2019, would...