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Irish FM Criticizes EU Demand For Apple Taxes
August 21st, 2017
Ireland’s new Finance Minister, Paschal Donohoe, has described the EU’s demand for the collection of up to EUR13bn (15.3bn) in “unpaid” taxes from Apple as unjustified, according to reports. Donohoe made the comment in an interview with German newspaper ...
Individuals and their companies ordered to pay millions in restitution for defrauding investors
August 21st, 2017
Federal Court Orders Jeffrey Slemmer, Christian Dorrian, Adam Roth, and Their Florida-Based Companies to Pay over $5.4 Million in Restitution and a Penalty in CFTC Precious Metals and Diamonds Anti-Fraud Action Slemmer Enterprises, Dorrian Enterprises and Roth Investment Group ...
The fiscal benefits of free trade
August 18th, 2017
The fiscal benefits of free trade Western governments have an overriding problem, and that is they have reached or exceeded the bounds of taxation, at a time when legally mandated welfare costs are accelerating. Treasury departments in all ...
American business leaders break with Donald Trump
August 17th, 2017
“I’VE never known it to be an embarrassment for a business leader to be associated with an American president,” declares Max Bazerman of Harvard Business School. Donald Trump, in particular, has positioned himself as a businessman-president, whose corporate acumen ...
Sanctions against senior auditor and PwC
August 16th, 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and reporting to foster investment, has issued today an announcement to inform that: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and Nicholas William Edward Boden, Senior Statutory Auditor ...
Costco made $3.7 million selling ‘Tiffany’ rings. Now it must pay $19 million to the real Tiffany
August 16th, 2017
Costco must pay the storied jewelry company Tiffany & Co. more than $19 million for selling about 2,500 diamond rings falsely identified on store signs as “Tiffany” rings, a federal judge ruled Monday. Costco’s management “displayed at best a ...
Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees
August 11th, 2017
Google cancelled a company-wide meeting on Thursday after several of its employees became targets of a Gamergate-style campaign of harassment by internet trolls angered by the firing of an engineer who had written a controversial memo about diversity. “We ...
Uber investor sues Uber’s former chief executive for fraud
August 11th, 2017
Travis Kalanick, who built Uber into a transportation behemoth, was ousted as chief executive of the ride-hailing company in June by unhappy investors. Now, one of those investors has escalated the battle by suing Mr. Kalanick, claiming fraud and ...
Singapore warns of potential risks of virtual currency-related investment schemes
August 10th, 2017
The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have observed the emergence of initial coin (or token) offerings (ICOs), and other investment schemes involving digital tokens, in Singapore. Members of the public are advised to ...
‘Robo-Lawyer’ launched for property investing
August 10th, 2017
Legal and fintech startup Bootstrap Legal, brainchild of seasoned lawyer and crowdfunder GC Amy Wan, has launched software that automates the drafting of complex legal paperwork for those raising capital for property projects of $2 million and under. The ...
