Five Ways to Create an Optimized Withholding Tax Recovery Process
For institutional investors, withholding tax recovery is one of the most overlooked ways to unlock additional portfolio value. Despite its potential, many funds suffer avoidable withholding tax leakage due to fragmented recovery processes, administrative burdens or a lack of expertise.
Dual-Listed Shares: Market Trends and Tax Recovery Updates for South African Investors
For many South African funds, dual-listed shares form the backbone of offshore equity exposure. As such, they continue to represent a core area of withholding tax leakage, especially for collective investment schemes (CIS).
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How WTax Leverages AI to Deliver Faster, Smarter Withholding Tax Reclaims
At WTax, we’ve long recognized that withholding tax recovery is a process defined by complexity: heavy documentation, varied eligibility criteria and shifting regulatory environments across jurisdictions. Rather than being held back by this complexity, we’ve made it the focus of our innovation.
Sweden Proposes Withholding Tax Exemption for Foreign State Entities Following Landmark CJEU Ruling
June 2025 marked a potential shift in Sweden’s approach to taxing foreign state entities. The Swedish Ministry of Finance has published a legislative proposal to amend the country’s dividend withholding regime - specifically the Coupon Tax Law (Swe: Kupongskattelagen, 1970:624) - to bring it in line with recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) rulings.
When One Company Drives the Numbers: Dividend Concentration and Reclaim Exposure
In certain markets, a large share of total dividends may come from a small number of high-dividend-paying companies. This kind of concentration shapes the overall dividend landscape, influencing payout cycles and the flow of cross-border income.