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Greene King takes tax battle to Court of Appeal
August 13th, 2014
Greene King has confirmed it will take its long-running fight with HMRC over a £21m tax planning scheme, known as Project Sussex, to the Court of Appeal. In its latest annual report, the brewery and pub group revealed plans ...
New Tax Threatens to Destroy Gas Production in Ukraine
August 13th, 2014
Independent gas producers in Ukraine are joining forces to pressure the government in Kiev to re-think its new gas tax before everyone makes a run for the border in search of new assets in a more stable environment. Private ...
West TX Oil Drops to 97.30 on Pressure
August 13th, 2014
Brent crude slipped below $103 a barrel on Wednesday to trade near its lowest level in more than a year as ample supplies countered any disruption risks posed by lingering tensions in Iraq and Libya. It was the fourth ...
Cayman Simplifies Customs Procedures
August 13th, 2014
The Cayman Islands is trying to speed up and simplify things for cross-border traders and thus has launched a number of initiatives to achieve it. It has announced a two percent reduction in several duties and as from September ...
Being Pro-West Doesn’t Mean Being Anti-Russian
August 13th, 2014
The recent events in Ukraine and the resulting wave of sanctions, affecting all sides of the conflict, have once again intensified the long-running disagreement in Russia between pro-West and anti-West factions. Facebook is full of passionate arguments as yesterday’s ...
IRS Tried, Failed to Repair Lois Lerner Hard Drive
August 12th, 2014
U.S. Internal Revenue Service told a judge its technicians made repeated futile efforts to save data on a malfunctioning computer hard drive used by Lois Lerner, the former official at the center of a dispute between Congress and the ...
Chinese developer Wanda launches $1.7bn Australian arm
August 12th, 2014
One of China’s biggest developers will launch an Australian arm with $1.7 billion in capital to splash into the nation’s real estate market. In an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today, the Wanda Group revealed it would ...
Royal Bank of Scotland to offload global Coutts arm
August 12th, 2014
Royal Bank of Scotland said it planned to sell the international operations of Coutts, its private bank for wealthy clients including Queen Elizabeth II and David Beckham, just months before the unit is expected to be fined for helping ...
Multinationals Warn Against US Inversion Quick Fixes
August 12th, 2014
The current policy debate on so-called corporate inversions threatens to inadvertently impact all American subsidiaries of foreign multinationals and make the country less attractive for future foreign direct investment (FDI), according to a letter written by the Organization for ...
Pound Bulls Face Day of Reckoning as BOE Inflation Report Looms
August 12th, 2014
This week’s economic forecasts from the Bank of England are shaping up to be decisive for the remaining sterling bulls. The pound strengthened against the euro today as investors prepared for clues from projections due in the central bank’s ...
