
Israel Issues a Draft QDMTT Law
On October 5, 2025, Israel published a consultation on a draft law for a domestic minimum tax (intended to be a Qualified Domestic Minimum Top-Up Tax or ‘QDMTT’) from January 1, 2026.
Tax transparency is a feature of many domestic tax regimes as a means of applying a single layer of taxation. Tax transparent entities are also used by MNEs for a variety of tax (and non-tax) reasons, not least the ability to maximize double tax relief.
A key feature of the GloBE rules is to try and reflect key features of domestic tax regimes, particularly in the calculation of GloBE income. As such, in many cases, a tax transparent entity would be treated for Pillar Two purposes in the same way as it is for domestic tax purposes, subject to some specific GloBE adjustments (eg to reflect income of non-group members or permanent establishments).
However, where the tax transparent entity is itself the Ultimate Parent Entity (UPE) of the group, this poses some problems in the application of the GloBE Rules.
Income can’t be allocated to the owners, as they would not be within the scope of the Pillar Two GloBE rules. In addition, tax paid by the UPE may be minimal given tax is payable on the income by its owners. This could lead to very low effective tax rates for a tax transparent UPE and substantial top-up tax obligations.
Therefore, the Model Rules include a number of special rules to deal with these situations.
Under the Model GloBE Rules, a flow-through entity is either a tax transparent entity or a reverse hybrid entity.
These three carve outs can be useful for UPEs.
The GloBE income reduction for natural persons, for instance, recognises that whilst identifying the tax position of minority owners may be difficult for a UPE, individuals are generally not subject to special tax regimes for income from a tax transparent entity.
As such, it is reasonable not to require the UPE to determine the tax position of a natural person that holds an ownership interest of less than 5% of the profits or assets of the UPE. This means that a UPE would be required to identify the tax position of no more than 19 individuals.
On October 5, 2025, Israel published a consultation on a draft law for a domestic minimum tax (intended to be a Qualified Domestic Minimum Top-Up Tax or ‘QDMTT’) from January 1, 2026.
On October 3, 2025, Turkey published the Draft Communique on the Minimum Tax Law, and the Draft GIR, for consultation. Whilst Turkey has enacted its Minimum Tax Law, a lot of the detailed application of the GloBE rules was left to a further Regulation. This Communique therefore provides for the detailed rules for the implementation of the GloBE rules in Turkey.
On September 18, 2025, Croatia opened a consultation on a Draft Bill to amend its Minimum Tax Act. The amendments are primarily to amend the QDMTT accounting standard so that the Croatian QDMTT qualifies for the QDMTT Safe Harbour and to provide for the notification deadline for appointing a designated filing entity.
On September 26, 2025, Hong Kong updated its Pillar 2 guidance to include information on its Pillar 2 Portal, applications for Group Codes and mandatory e-filing of profit tax returns for Pillar 2 groups.
On September 29, 2025, the Federal Ministry of Finance opened a consultation on a Draft Regulation for the implementation of the Minimum Tax Act. This provides for compliance rules for the exchange of the GIR and simplified reporting.
We keep track of all domestic Pillar Two forms issued to date, including links to domestic forms and notices for each relevant jurisdiction.
On September 16, 2025, The Netherlands Cabinet issued a Draft Bill for the Second Amendment to the Minimum Tax Act to implement the December 2023, June 2024 and January 2025 OECD Administrative Guidance (as well as the EU DAC 9 proposals).
Japan has launched its Multinational Enterprise Information Reporting Portal for filing Pillar 2 returns.
On 6 September 2025, Nigeria’s Tax Act 2025 was published in the Official Gazette. This includes a DMTT (without any of the detailed GloBE adjustments yet applying).
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