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Brussels orders EU countries to claw back ‘illegal’ tax rulings
October 22nd, 2015
Europe’s competition chief ordered the Netherlands to recover €20-30 million in back taxes from Starbucks on Wednesday (21 October) and told Luxembourg to claim the same amount from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The move is a heavy blow to profit-shielding ...
TAX: OECD presents outputs of OECD/G20 BEPS Project for discussion at G20 meeting
October 5th, 2015
Reforms to the international tax system for curbing avoidance by multinational enterprises The OECD presented today the final package of measures for a comprehensive, coherent and co-ordinated reform of the international tax rules to be discussed by G20 Finance Ministers at ...
RAK, UAE, and traditional tax havens
September 25th, 2015
What is the difference between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other popular tax havens? Why more and more international traders and investors find the UAE to be one of the best places to incorporate offshore companies for various ...
Methods of Tax Avoidance: Doubts Grow Over Fight Against Big Business Tax Evasion
September 24th, 2015
Lawmakers in the European Union say they have doubts that the fight against “aggressive” tax saving plans by the likes of Amazon, Barclays, Coca Cola, Facebook and Google can be sustained because of a lack of political agreement. The ...
Egypt faces taxing challenge amid its inaction on cutting fiscal deficit
August 13th, 2015
Egypt’s government in the coming months faces one of its biggest economic challenges since it came to power a year ago: the implementation of the long-planned value-added tax (VAT). The VAT promises to be hugely unpopular among businesses, which ...
OECD updates anti-tax evasion list
August 4th, 2015
Europe’s attempts to clean up tax evasion and money laundering took a step forward yesterday when an international task group said that Austria — a eurozone nation that was until recently falling short —was almost fully compliant with new ...
IMF Report Looks At Tax And Wealth Distribution
June 18th, 2015
High-income households and corporations now face lower effective rates in some advanced economies, and this has contributed to an increase in net income inequality, according to a new International Monetary Fund report, entitled Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A ...
Yahoo shares fall on worries of possible U.S. tax change on spinoffs
May 20th, 2015
Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) shares fell 7.6 percent on Tuesday on concerns that a possible change in U.S. tax regulations would affect Yahoo’s planned spinoff of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N). The change – discussed by a ...
OECD attacks ‘aggressive tax plans’
May 14th, 2015
Technology companies need to stop “extremely aggressive” tax planning, the man charged with reforming global tax rules has told the BBC. He says these “push the boundaries of what is legal”. Pascal Saint-Amans, who runs the OECD‘s Centre for ...
Average tax rate paid by FTSE 100 resumes downward slide, falling to 23.1%
April 27th, 2015
Oil & gas, banks and resources pay highest rates The average effective rate of tax paid as reported by FTSE 100 companies has resumed its downward slide, dropping to just 23.1% of profits last year down from 25.9% the ...