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Offshore Tax Crackdown Opens With 30% Penalties for Banks
June 30th, 2014
The Internal Revenue Service is about to get an unprecedented look at bank accounts and investments U.S. citizens hold abroad, through a law that is making it harder to hide assets from the tax collector. Tomorrow, the U.S. government ...
IMF Calls For Greater Global Cohesion In Taxation Of Multinationals
June 30th, 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report on June 25, 2014, which explores the nature and policy implications of cross-border effects from national corporate tax policies. The report, entitled Spillovers in International Corporate Taxation, highlights how these effects ...
Global M&A at seven-year high as big corporate deals return
June 30th, 2014
Investor support for large acquisitions and a desire to trump rivals in consolidating markets have led chief executives to strike big transactions so far in 2014, raising year-to-date global deal volumes to their highest level in seven years. Corporate ...
Shelbourne Markets purchased by ETX Capital
June 27th, 2014
ETX Capital, a London-based financial spread-betting and contracts-for-difference provider, has acquired Shelbourne Markets, Ireland’s largest financial spread-betting firm for an undisclosed sum. Shelbourne, which has 10,000-11,000 clients in Ireland, has been on the market for some months with four ...
EU Set For Tariff Liberalizing Agreements With Eastern Partners
June 27th, 2014
The European Union (EU) is set to ink new Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine that will eventually eliminate tariff barriers to trade. The EU will sign the deals in their entirety with Georgia and Moldova on June ...
New tax reliefs complicate the system and offer more opportunities for tax avoidance’ MPs warn
June 27th, 2014
A committee of MPs has accused the Government of creating more opportunities for tax avoidance by introducing new tax reliefs which cost the country £100billion a year. The Government’s Office of Tax Simplification has introduced 134 new tax reliefs ...
Argentina Tests U.S. Court Order by Posting Interest Payment
June 27th, 2014
Argentina is challenging U.S. Courts to enforce a ruling that will block $539 million of an interest payment and trigger a new bond default. Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said the South American nation complied with its foreign debt obligations ...
Symmetry between prices of gold and crude oil coming apart
June 27th, 2014
A five-year symmetry between international prices of gold and crude oil is coming apart with investors drifting away from the yellow metal as their risk aversion diminishes. Historically, both these commodities had positive correlation, with their prices moving in ...
Ofgem puts big six energy suppliers under investigation
June 27th, 2014
The energy watchdog, Ofgem, fired the starting gun on Thursday on the biggest investigation yet into the energy market by referring the much-criticised power industry to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The big six suppliers will be under ...
Supreme Court enshrines privacy of smartphones
June 26th, 2014
US police must obtain a warrant to search a suspect’s smartphone after the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that constitutional privacy protections apply to the often extensive data people keep on the devices in their pockets. In a unanimous ...
