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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 ...
Financing IMF Transactions Quarterly Report
May 13th, 2015
IMF credit is extended to its members in both foreign exchange and SDRs. Credit extended in foreign exchange is financed from the quota resources made available to the IMF by members, and essentially involves a transfer of foreign exchange ...
Financial transaction tax unlikely before 2017-Austria finmin
May 12th, 2015
Europe is unlikely to impose a financial transaction tax before 2017, not in 2016 as earlier planned, Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling told Reuters. The tax, first proposed in the 1970s to penalise currency speculators, was seized on ...
Tax rulings: “We need a common corporate tax base”, says Commissioner Vestager
May 6th, 2015
Why did the EU Commission take so long to launch investigations into member states’ tax rulings? Is its strategy to go only after small countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland? Will the instruments available to it ...
Euro area annual inflation up to 0.0%
April 30th, 2015
Euro area(1) annual inflation(2) is expected to be 0.0% in April 2015, up from -0.1% in March(3) , according to a flash estimate(4) from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Looking at the main components of euro ...
Allen & Overy announces 33 Counsel promotions
April 27th, 2015
Allen & Overy today announces that 33 lawyers have been promoted to Counsel across the global network. The promotions are in 15 offices across Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region and include lawyers in the Banking, ...
Europe to Pull Trigger on Google Antitrust Charges
April 15th, 2015
Case would be EU’s biggest competition battle since pursuit of Microsoft a decade ago Europe’s antitrust regulator plans to file formal charges against Google Inc.for violating antitrust laws, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday, stepping up a five-year investigation ...
OECD Taxing Wages 2015 Report
April 14th, 2015
Taxes on wages have risen by about one percent for the average worker in OECD countries between 2010 and 2014, even though the majority of governments did not increase statutory income tax rates, according to the Organisation for Economic ...
EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google
April 2nd, 2015
Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google Inc. in the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday, setting the stage for charges against the ...
Switzerland, EU to tackle tax evasion
March 20th, 2015
Bern and Brussels have clinched a deal to exchange bank account data in an effort to tackle tax fraud. The agreement comes after a recent report exposed the global economic damage caused by offshore accounts. Switzerland and the European ...