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KPMG claims that UK is one of the most attractictive place to do business from a tax perspective
March 15th, 2016
KPMG: The Home for Business? Assessing the Competitiveness of the UK Thought leadership publication based on market research among tax decision makers in 167 UK and non UK companies. In this year’s study, Ireland retains its place as the most ...
Economy puts aside post-mining boom blues
March 2nd, 2016
Australia finally appears to be getting over the end of the mining boom as new figures showed the economy growing at its fastest pace in nearly two years. The latest national accounts showed the economy expanding at a healthy ...
Euromoney:Private Banking and Wealth Management Survey 2016
February 25th, 2016
UBS Wealth Management voted best global private bank; revenue outlook dimmer this year; asset management competition heats up. In Euromoney’s 13th annual private banking survey for 2016, UBS Wealth Management has made its way back to the top of ...
Fighting tax evasion: The European Union and the Principality of Monaco initial new tax transparency agreement
February 24th, 2016
The EU and Monaco have today initialled a new tax transparency agreement marking another major step forward in the fight against tax evasion. The agreement provides that Monaco and EU Member States will automatically exchange information on the financial accounts of ...
Google Isn’t Paying the ‘Google Tax’
February 19th, 2016
Close to four years ago, Europe began to notice that some of the world’s biggest technology companies were paying minimal tax on the billions of dollars they earned across the continent. Among those the U.K. and other governments criticized ...
Bloomberg BNA Introduces BEPS Tracker
February 16th, 2016
Bloomberg BNA released its new BEPS Tracker, enabling international tax professionals to quickly determine the status of a country’s response to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action plan. With the BEPS ...
OPEC expects rivals to pump out less oil in 2016
February 10th, 2016
Oil cartel OPEC has cut its forecasts for how much its rival producers will produce in in 2016, while the 12-member group continues to ramp up its own production levels. According to the latest monthly report from the group, ...
IEA releases Oil Market Report for February
February 10th, 2016
As signs of a demand slowdown surface, higher OPEC output only partly offsets non-OPEC decline Having peaked, at a five-year high of 1.6 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2015, global oil demand growth is forecast to ease back ...
EC focuses on monitoring, not regulating, virtual currencies
January 29th, 2016
The European Commission is examining whether virtual currencies need to be regulated in the wake of last November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, but is currently more focused on monitoring the likes of bitcoin than on rushing out new rules. ...
European Commission presents new measures against corporate tax avoidance
January 29th, 2016
European Commission has issued a press release to inform on a proposal for Fair Taxation. As stated, proposals aim for a coordinated EU wide response to corporate tax avoidance, following global standards developed by the OECD last autumn. New ...
