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Cyprus approves tax breaks to boost the start-up sector
July 28th, 2016
The government has approved a package of tax incentives to boost the start-up sector and innovation in Cyprus, undersecretary to the president Constantinos Petrides announced on Wednesday. The package includes an up to 50 per cent tax exemption on ...
UHY: Major European economies levy among the highest property purchase taxes in the world
July 26th, 2016
European economies levy some of the highest property purchase taxes in the world on prime real estate, charging on average 4%, or USD 38,356, in tax on a property purchase of USD 1 million, reveals a new study by ...
Austria To Rein In Bank Tax
July 25th, 2016
The Austrian Government has proposed reducing the burden of the nation’s banking levy and calculating it based on a bank’s earnings rather than assets. The change was confirmed recently by Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling, who said that cutting ...
Tax advisers in Uk arrested in suspected £132m tax fraud
July 22nd, 2016
Three tax advisers have been arrested as part of a HMRC investigation into a suspected £132m tax fraud. The arrests were made as a result of a HMRC investigation into a complex scheme involving offshore trusts used by professional financial advisers ...
A paper trail links online traders to tax havens
July 21st, 2016
A paper trail that runs from Okinawa to Canada and from Israel to Italy and France links some unauthorized online traders on the blacklist of Japan’s financial regulator to offshore companies in tax havens, an analysis of files leaked ...
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 Council adopts new rules on Corporate Tax avoidance
July 15th, 2016
On 12 July 2016, the Council adopted new rules addressing some of the practices most commonly used by large companies to reduce their tax liability. The directive is part of a January 2016 package of Commission proposals to strengthen rules ...
Chinese regulator released that paid online searches will be treated as advertising and to be taxed
July 14th, 2016
The recent regulations issued by China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce on online advertising are likely to dent Alibaba’s and Baidu’s earnings, analysts believe. Baidu Inc is set to announce its second quarter of fiscal year 2016 (2QFY16) ...
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 ...
Brexit: Paris urges London to remain tax ‘friendly’
July 12th, 2016
Amid fears of a fiscal “race to the bottom” French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Monday slammed British plans to reduce corporation tax as part of plans to keep attracting foreign investment after last month’s Brexit vote. “You don’t ...
