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Tax Inversion: What’s the Real Story?
August 5th, 2014
Tax inversion is turning the country inside out. Although the rhetoric flying back and forth is complex, the basic premise is actually quite simple: Multi-national corporations that are reaping profits after taking advantage of favorable U.S. laws are relocating ...
Walgreens CFO exits ahead of tax inversion news
August 5th, 2014
Walgreens announced Monday that the company is replacing Chief Financial Officer Wade Miquelon, a move that comes just as the Deerfield, Ill., drugstore chain plans to announce a decision on whether they will nominally move its headquarters overseas to ...
Kenyatta Sees Kenya Windfall Tax in Resource Laws in Months
August 4th, 2014
Kenya will impose capital-gains and windfall taxes on oil, gas and mining companies within months to ensure the East African nation maximizes benefits from its mineral resources, President Uhuru Kenyatta said. “This is something that we are very clear ...
Study Compares Tax Freedom Day Across The EU
August 4th, 2014
The Institut Économique Molinari (IEM), which is located in Brussels, based its assessment on data from EY. The think-tank found that tax freedom day – the notional day when taxpayers’ income stops funding state expenditure and is received entirely ...
Corporation tax and CGT
August 1st, 2014
Summarize of the key measures in Finance Act 2014, Andrew Goodall sets out the main corporation tax and capital gains tax provisions in part one of the act. Corporation tax Rates Finance Act 2013 fixed the main rate for ...
HMRC: Tax avoiders have opportunity to settle their issues
August 1st, 2014
Around 16,000 tax avoiders are to be given the chance to settle their outstanding liabilities with HM Revenue & Customs, the department has confirmed. On average, each of the users of the contractor loan schemes covered by this settlement ...
Switzerland, Italy Working To Remedy Tax Disputes
July 31st, 2014
Swiss President Didier Burkhalter has called for a constructive, coherent, and balanced approach to the resolution of a number of outstanding tax issues with Italy. Burkhalter made the comments during a meeting with Matteo Renzi, Italy’s Prime Minister, after ...
EU court to decide on tax-free trading of bitcoin
July 30th, 2014
Tax-free trading of bitcoin is on legal questioning at the European Union’s top court following Swedish authorities request to extend existing levies to virtual currencies. The EU Court of Justice must decide if transactions between virtual and traditional currencies ...
Plans outlined to amend tax rules to enable new simplified reporting of VAT owed for supply of digital services
July 30th, 2014
Proposed amendments to UK tax rules are being consulted on by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to recognise a new simplified mechanism that is being introduced for reporting VAT owed on the supply of digital services following changes to ...
Tories oppose to a “flat tax” system
July 30th, 2014
The Tories have strongly denied they are planning to move to a “flat tax” system – where everyone pays the same rate of tax regardless of income – after the party’s policy chief, Oliver Letwin, was recorded suggesting a ...