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Thursday, 11 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) NZ Govt Consults On Internal Tax Info Sharing Initiative » Source: Mary Swire New Zealand's Inland Revenue could share information with other domestic government agencies as part...
Thursday, 11 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Panama Reforms Tax Authority » Source: Mike Godfrey Panama's National Assembly has approved Law No. 566 for the creation of a new National Revenue Auth...
Thursday, 11 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Repayment Of Italian VAT Credits To Increase » Source: Ulrika Lomas An amount has been added, for the repayment of value added tax (VAT) credits, to the Italian Govern...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Retailers Look for Radical US Tax Reform » Source: Leroy Baker In a letter sent to the Tax Reform Working Group on Income and Tax Distribution set up by the...
Tuesday, 09 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Financial transaction tax will cost City £4bn, study warns » Source: Accountancy Age THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S planned tax on financial transactions will add billions of poun...
Tuesday, 09 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) EU's 'crockery tax' extension riles business » Source: Accountancy Age THE EU's EXTENSION of the ‘crockery tax' has been bemoaned by business representatives....
Tuesday, 09 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) HMRC staff in strike action » Source: Accountancy Age THOUSANDS OF HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS STAFF MEMBERS are taking part in a half-day walk-ou...
Wednesday, 03 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Australian legislation: Pay As You Go Withholding » By Taxvine (Tax Institute Australia) PAYG Withholding - Variation of withholding for personal services income T...
Wednesday, 03 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Australia: decision impact statement issued on Denlay v FCT » By Taxvine (Tax Institute Australia) The Australian Taxation Office has issued a Decision Impact Statement in relation...
Wednesday, 03 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Australia targets alleged tax avoidance by multinationals » By Irish Times (Reuters) Executive summary Multinationals such as Google and Apple will be required to disclose the...
Wednesday, 03 April 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) France's supertax 'to drain country of footballers' » By Henry Samuel (Irish Independent) Executive summary The proposed super tax of 75% will result in France losing its...
Thursday, 28 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Taxing the Wealthy Is Not So Easy » Source: Conrad De Aenlle The French have been making the rich pay since 1789. But when a 75 percent tax rate on i...
Thursday, 28 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Small savers spared in Cyprus deal » By Irish Independent Executive summary British expats with savings under £85,000 have been spared from being...
Thursday, 28 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) UK: Cameron urged to grant tax powers » By Irish Independent Executive summary The CBI has urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to grant Northern I...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Tax burdens on labour income in OECD countries continue to rise » By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) New data show that across OECD countries the average t...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Fiscal and Taxation Reforms for a More Inclusive Growth in China » Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the China Development Forum Beijing, Sunday 24 March 2013...
Friday, 22 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) UK corporation tax to fall to 20% in 2015 » By Reuters Britain will cut the main rate of corporation tax to 20% from April 2015 to try to boost investment and crea...
Friday, 22 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Australia: Taxpayer was a non-resident (Mayhew case) » By Tax Institute Australia (TaxVine) The AAT has held that a taxpayer, who commenced employment with an engineering com...
Friday, 22 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Tax Institute Australia Senior Tax Counsel Report 22 March 2013 » By Robert Jeremenko CTA At last week’s Tax Institute National Convention, much of the discussion and technical output w...
Friday, 22 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Finland to lower corporate tax rate by 4.5pc » Irish Independent (Bloomberg) Executive summary Finland's government agreed to lower the corporate rax rate from 24...
Friday, 22 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) UK budget cuts corporation tax, hikes borrowing and knocks penny off a pint » By Colm Kelpie (Irish Independent) Executive summary UK Chancellor Osborne took aim at Ireland by slashing the corpora...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Uganda throws out MTN tax evasion case » Source: News 24 Johannesburg - A Ugandan court threw out a tax fraud case against the chief executive and other senio...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) New UK Tax Status Test Could Hit Expats » Source: News 24 Cape Town - Expats who spend part of the year in the UK need to reconsider the way they define th...
Sunday, 17 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Hedging through the tax charge: a threat to tax revenue » By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Risk management and hedging are key issues in corpora...
Friday, 15 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) THE RULE OF LAW IN CANADA » Judgment was handed down by Canada's Federal Court of Appeal on 21 February 2013 in the matter of The Minister of Natio...
Friday, 15 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) EU to suspend aviation carbon tax » Brussels -The European Union is set to partially suspend its controversial airlines emissions tax scheme, officials said...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Top Tory in challenge on austerity » By Irish Independent Senior Conservative Liam Fox is expected to bring Tory austerity divisions to the fore with a dir...
Sunday, 10 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Albania signs the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters » By OECD Albania has signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, a multilateral agreem...
Sunday, 03 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Corporates play off EU rules to pay minimal tax » By Tom Bergin (Reuters) Executive summary Irish Finance Minister said that Ireland is a friendly country for invest...
Saturday, 02 March 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Denmark to cut corporate taxes » By AFP (News24) Executive summary Denmark's government is planning a progressive reduction in CIT from the current 25...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) OECD Global Forum on Tax Transparency welcomes Azerbaijan and the Kingdom of Lesotho as new members » By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Azerbaijan and the Kingdom of Lesotho have joined the Global Fo...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Payroll taxes, petrol prices squeeze Walmart’s US customers » By Jessica Wohl (Business Day/Reuters) Executive summary Walmart attributed weak US sales to higher payroll taxes,...
Friday, 22 February 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) Thousands of Greeks take to streets against wage cuts and high taxes » By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas (Business Day/Reuters) Executive summary More than 60, 000 Greek citize...
Friday, 22 February 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) OECD takes aim at software technologies used by businesses to evade taxes » By OECD Executive summary POS systems can be equipped with specialist "sales suppression software" to facilitat...
Monday, 18 February 2013 (0 Comments - view/add) G20 vows to halt tax avoidance » By News24/AFP Executive summary The G20 has vowed to crack down on companies who avoid their full tax responsib...
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