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China to Waive Capital-Gains Tax for Foreigners on Link
November 14th, 2014
China will waive capital-gains taxes for foreign stock investors using the Shanghai-Hong Kong (HSCEI) bourse link, clarifying its rules three days before the program’s debut provides unprecedented access to mainland shares. Chinese individuals who buy Hong Kong equities through the link get a ...
Labour vows to double fines on tax avoidance
November 14th, 2014
THE LABOUR Party yesterday pledged to double the fines on people who aggressively avoided tax, if it won the next election. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said this would be a “tough and genuine deterrent”. Balls said Labour had supported ...
IRS Scanning 10-Ks for Tax Data, Report Finds
November 13th, 2014
When CFOs and accounting standard-setters refer to the “users” of corporate 10-Ks, they usually mean investors, research analysts and rival companies. But new research suggests that another kind of user has been taking a keen interest in their companies’ ...
HMRC letters warning of £1m fines hit tax firms
November 12th, 2014
The first batch of avoidance experts who could be both publicly denounced by HM Revenue & Customs and forced to reveal their clients’ names has been written to by the tax department. The advisers, who HMRC regards as potentially ...
Japanese stocks soar to seven-year peak on tax-hike delay talk
November 12th, 2014
Japanese stocks scaled seven-year highs on Wednesday, putting the rest of Asia in the shade, buoyed by expectations Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will postpone a planned sales tax hike to avoid damaging a fragile economic recovery. MSCI’s broadest index ...
Tax Reform Not Included In Obama, Congress Meeting
November 11th, 2014
While there had been some hope of immediate moves towards United States corporate tax reform after the mid-term election results, the first joint meeting on November 7 between President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers, who will now control both ...
HMRC recovers record £3.65bn in unpaid taxes
November 10th, 2014
A record amount of unpaid tax has been recovered from avoidance schemes, evasion and fraud by HMRC’s top team of specialist investigators – up by almost a quarter in the past year, says Pinsent Masons, the international law firm. ...
Luxembourg’s Tax Rulings Discussed By New EU Commissioner
November 10th, 2014
The European Commission has not yet formed an opinion on two contested tax rulings provided by the Luxembourg Government to multinational companies, and it has yet to formally respond to the recent leak of previous rulings, the new Competition ...
HMRC: 10 tax avoidance danger signs
November 10th, 2014
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has alerted people to the tricks employed by tax avoidance scheme promoters. The note sets out the risks people face when they sign up to tax avoidance schemes with these including not only the ...
Ireland Vies to Remain Silicon Valley’s Low-Tax Home Away From Home
November 10th, 2014
In a sprawling conference center on the outskirts of the Irish capital, more than 20,000 people from the global tech industry gathered last week to sign deals and swap contacts. Despite the throngs of start-ups, American heavy hitters like ...
