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EU Apple Tax Ruling Stirs Fears of Revenue Loss in U.S.
August 31st, 2016
American politicians have spent years salivating over U.S. companies’ stockpile of untaxed foreign profits, now more than $2 trillion and growing. Europe got to that money pot first. The European Commission’s ruling Tuesday that Apple Inc. must pay $14.5 billion in back ...
China proposes global tax system at G20
August 10th, 2016
China’s Finance Minister Lou Jiwei proposed development of a new international taxation system at a G20 meeting in Chengdu over the weekend, joining a global movement aimed at stopping companies and individuals from exploiting discrepancies in different countries’ laws ...
Greek police arrest 24 in crackdown on tax-dodging cashless gadgets
August 9th, 2016
Greek authorities said on Monday they had arrested 24 people in a crackdown on about 1,000 small businesses suspected of dodging capital controls and value-added tax by using cashless card-processing terminals linked to banks in Bulgaria. Authorities said hundreds ...
Spain To Raise Corporate Tax
July 21st, 2016
The Spanish Government has outlined plans to increase company tax as it battles to keeps its budget deficit in check. Facing the prospect of being the first ever member state to be fined by the European Union for persistently ...
EU and Monaco Sign New Tax Deal
July 14th, 2016
The European Union (EU) and Monaco have signed a tax transparency agreement that will enable them to automatically exchange information on the financial accounts of each other’s residents from 2018. Under the agreement, the EU and Monaco will automatically ...
France seeks €356m in unpaid tax from Booking.com
June 2nd, 2016
French authorities are seeking €356m (£276m) in unpaid taxes from Booking.com, according to documents filed by parent company Priceline. Documents filed with US regulator said French authorities recently completed an audit of Booking.com’s accounts from 2003 to 2012. The ...
Lebanon declared that Tax data to be shared with foreign states in 2018
May 23rd, 2016
Automatic exchange of financial account information to be handled by specialized agency Lebanon has declared its commitment to the international standard of automatic exchange of financial account information, which aims to combat tax evasion and avoidance, according to a ...
EU to compile blacklist of tax havens
May 20th, 2016
European Union finance ministers will agree next week to draw up a common list of tax havens and sanctions against them, according to a draft EU document, part of a crackdown on tax evasion by companies and wealthy individuals. ...
Five States Agree To Adopt New Tax Transparency Standard
May 19th, 2016
Bahrain, Lebanon, Nauru, Panama, and Vanuatu – five territories that were earlier criticized for not following tax transparency standards – have newly committed to sharing financial account information automatically with other countries. With these new commitments, 101 jurisdictions around ...
European Parliament special tax delegation due in Cyprus
April 13th, 2016
A delegation of members of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Corporate Taxation II – or TAXE 2 – will visit Cyprus on Friday to look into the Cypriot corporate tax practice. MEPs will meet with Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, ...
