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Bitcoin Is Paying Out Dividends Now — Just Not to Everyone
October 25th, 2017
On top of stupendous capital gains, investors in bitcoin are also getting a dividend — if they’re lucky. A split in the blockchain created a new offshoot in the form of bitcoin gold on Tuesday, with bitcoin holders receiving ...
French Finance Minister Outlines French Corporate Tax Cut Plans
September 1st, 2017
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has confirmed that the Government will legislate for several tax measures designed to increase France’s tax competitiveness in the upcoming Budget for 2018. In a speech to France’s main employers’ union, MEDEF, on ...
USA reveals tax proposals
April 28th, 2017
How Trump’s new tax reform proposal may affect every income bracket Rates differ from Trump’s campaign tax plan. The AMT would go away. Deductions for state and local taxes would be eliminated. President Donald Trump’s new proposal to reform ...
Two Trends That Will Force The Fed To Start Buying Stocks
March 27th, 2017
While the Japanese and Swiss central banks have turned themselves into hedge funds by loading up on equities, the US Fed has stuck to supporting the stock market indirectly, by buying bonds. It’s worked, obviously, with all major US ...
Israel Tax Authority probing 30,000 more Israelis’ US accounts
February 28th, 2017
Information from the IRS will be cross-checked with reports by Israelis about their overseas assets. The Israel Tax Authority today announced that in recent days, it had obtained additional information about 30,000 accounts at US financial concerns belonging to ...
Gold – a primer for 2017
January 22nd, 2017
You know when to buy gold: it’s when nearly every trader and commentator tells you that gold is going lower and you should sell it. This is Harry Dent on 10th January: “I still see gold landing somewhere between ...
Israel Welcomes Tax Info On Israelis in US
January 19th, 2017
The Israel Tax Authority (ITA) has confirmed that there have been reciprocal exchanges of information, on both American citizens in Israel and Israeli citizens in the United States, under the countries’ Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) intergovernmental agreement ...
Israel to Tax Digital Currency Sales as Property
January 17th, 2017
In a statement released this week, the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) announced that it has decided to treat digital currencies like Bitcoin as assets rather than as foreign currencies for the purpose of taxation. That announcement has come more ...
Italy introduces new tax system to attract high net worth individuals
January 9th, 2017
Italy has introduced a new territorial system of taxation for ‘newly resident’ individuals, with the aim of attracting high net worth individuals (HNWIs), including sportspeople and celebrities, who could be interested in relocating The new measure is contained in ...
Swedish government proposes tax changes for startups
December 30th, 2016
The Swedish government says it has listened to criticism from flagship startups like Spotify and will now change the rules regarding employee share schemes for small companies in the country. Startups have long argued that they were struggling to ...