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Accountancy Profession Adapting To Digital Age: Survey
November 10th, 2016
A recent survey of accountants in the UK has found that 83 percent believe understanding technology is equally as important to their job as understanding accountancy. The survey, undertaken by Xero, an accounting software company, found that 71 percent ...
TD Ameritrade is expanding its digital advice offerings with Robo-Advisor
November 3rd, 2016
TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (Nasdaq:AMTD) is expanding its digital advice offerings with the soft launch of Essential Portfolios1 – an automated, low-cost advisory service for digital-first investors. The national launch of Essential Portfolios is expected in early calendar year 2017. Research has shown ...
Italian Corporate Tax Rate To Fall In New Budget
October 18th, 2016
In a press conference on October 15, following approval by the Government of the draft Italian 2017 Budget, Premier Matteo Renzi announced that it contains the promised business tax cuts, and underlined that “tax burdens continue to go down.” ...
Low tax Zug aims to become Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’
September 8th, 2016
Zug town hall now accepts bitcoin More than a dozen crypto currency firms operating there so far Government looking at changing regulation to attract more firms The small Swiss canton of Zug, famed for the low taxes that have ...
China proposes global tax system at G20
August 10th, 2016
China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei proposed development of a new international taxation system at a G20 meeting in Chengdu over the weekend, joining a global movement aimed at stopping companies and individuals from exploiting discrepancies in different countries’ laws ...
New global tax rules are ‘just a sticking plaster’
August 5th, 2016
New international rules to tackle global tax avoidance will not work properly until tax secrecy is swept away, a report released by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on responsible tax has found. The failure to introduce full transparency ...
Deloitte announces new Managing Partner for Tax
June 8th, 2016
Deloitte has announced Matt Ellis as new managing partner for tax in the UK and Switzerland. He assumes the role from Andy Hodge, who has led the practice for the past five years and is retiring from the firm. ...
HM Revenue & Customs continues quest to develop digital presence by ditching IT contract that cost it £10bn
March 31st, 2016
The UK’s tax authority made another move in its mission to go fully digital today by dropping an IT contract worth £10bn. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has agreed a phased exit from a contract with IT suppliers Aspire ...
OECD:All interested countries and jurisdictions to be invited to join global efforts led by the OECD and G20 to close international tax loopholes
February 25th, 2016
The OECD today agreed a new framework that would allow all interested countries and jurisdictions to join in efforts to update international tax rules for the 21st Century. The proposal for broadening participation in the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting ...
EU proposals will force multinationals to disclose tax arrangements
February 8th, 2016
Large US firms such as Google and Amazon will be required to disclose tax bills in Europe under draft legislation from European commission US multinationals such as Google, Facebook and Amazon will be forced to publicly disclose their earnings and tax ...
