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Ex-Jefferies Trader Deserves 9-Year Sentence, U.S. Says
July 1st, 2014
Ex-Jefferies & Co. Managing Director Jesse Litvak, who was convicted earlier this year of fraud in the trading of mortgage-backed securities, should be sentenced to nine years in prison, the U.S. said. Litvak was convicted in the only criminal ...
Not guilty plea for Philippine senator
June 30th, 2014
A Philippine anti-graft court entered a not guilty plea Monday for the second of three prominent senators arraigned in the country’s biggest corruption trial in more than a decade. Senator Jinggoy Estrada, son of former president and now Manila ...
Sex Video Is New Twist In GSK China Bribery Scandal
June 30th, 2014
GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L on Sunday confirmed the existence of an intimate video recording of its former China head, Mark Reilly, which the Sunday Times reported kicked off a bribery investigation that has damaged the drugmaker’s business in China. The Sunday ...
Offshore Tax Crackdown Opens With 30% Penalties for Banks
June 30th, 2014
The Internal Revenue Service is about to get an unprecedented look at bank accounts and investments U.S. citizens hold abroad, through a law that is making it harder to hide assets from the tax collector. Tomorrow, the U.S. government ...
IMF Calls For Greater Global Cohesion In Taxation Of Multinationals
June 30th, 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report on June 25, 2014, which explores the nature and policy implications of cross-border effects from national corporate tax policies. The report, entitled Spillovers in International Corporate Taxation, highlights how these effects ...
Global M&A at seven-year high as big corporate deals return
June 30th, 2014
Investor support for large acquisitions and a desire to trump rivals in consolidating markets have led chief executives to strike big transactions so far in 2014, raising year-to-date global deal volumes to their highest level in seven years. Corporate ...
Former investment manager jailed
June 27th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published the following announcement after a series of investigations: A former investment manager with links to the failed firm Trio Capital (Trio), was today sentenced to 25 months jail for making ...
EU Set For Tariff Liberalizing Agreements With Eastern Partners
June 27th, 2014
The European Union (EU) is set to ink new Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine that will eventually eliminate tariff barriers to trade. The EU will sign the deals in their entirety with Georgia and Moldova on June ...
New tax reliefs complicate the system and offer more opportunities for tax avoidance’ MPs warn
June 27th, 2014
A committee of MPs has accused the Government of creating more opportunities for tax avoidance by introducing new tax reliefs which cost the country £100billion a year. The Government’s Office of Tax Simplification has introduced 134 new tax reliefs ...
Supreme Court enshrines privacy of smartphones
June 26th, 2014
US police must obtain a warrant to search a suspect’s smartphone after the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that constitutional privacy protections apply to the often extensive data people keep on the devices in their pockets. In a unanimous ...
