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Switzerland, France Discuss Tax
April 24th, 2015
French President François Hollande has met with the head of Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, to talk tax. The meeting was held during Hollande’s state visit to Switzerland, the first by a French President since 1998. The ...
MarketAxess Reports First Quarter 2015 Record Revenues
April 23rd, 2015
MarketAxess Reports First Quarter 2015 Record Revenues of $76.8 Million, Record Pre-Tax Income of $38.5 Million and Record Diluted EPS of $0.65 First Quarter Financial Highlights* Record revenues of $76.8 million, up 21.1% Record pre-tax income of $38.5 million, ...
Britain’s bank tax jump threatens to push HSBC, StanChart to new home
April 20th, 2015
HSBC and Standard Chartered are looking at the viability of quitting London for a new home in Asia because a big jump in a tax on UK banks makes staying in Britain increasingly painful. Several investors told Reuters they ...
OECD Taxing Wages 2015 Report
April 14th, 2015
Taxes on wages have risen by about one percent for the average worker in OECD countries between 2010 and 2014, even though the majority of governments did not increase statutory income tax rates, according to the Organisation for Economic ...
China’s taxman is coming for Alibaba
April 8th, 2015
China stands to collect billions of dollars in taxes as Alibaba insiders unload shares held under lock-and-key since the tech firm’s record-breaking market debut last year. Two of the company’s “lock up” agreements have now expired, releasing an additional ...
Russian tax law change offers opportunities
April 7th, 2015
Significant changes to Russia’s tax code could lead to an increased use of corporate and trust entities based in the Channel Islands in the structuring of Russian corporate and private wealth arrangements. The changes, dubbed the ‘de-offshorisation law’, are ...
Cairn India takes Indian authorities to court over $3.3 bln tax demand
April 7th, 2015
Cairn India Ltd, India’s largest private-sector oil producer, said on Monday it had moved the Delhi High Court against a $3.3 billion tax demand from Indian authorities related to its listing in 2007. The company, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources ...
AICPA Makes Suggestions on How Business Income Tax Can be Simplified
April 6th, 2015
In a letter submitted on Tuesday to the Senate Finance Committee Tax Reform Working Group on Business Income Tax, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) made the following four recommendations about how to simplify business income tax. 1. Cash method of ...
OECD launches tax avoidance mandatory disclosure plan
April 2nd, 2015
OECD publishes consultation on the mandatory disclosure of tax avoidance structures in multinational companies as part of BEPS work As part of its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, the OECD has launched a public consultation on Action 12 ...
Baker & McKenzie is a winner at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards
March 31st, 2015
Baker & McKenzie was awarded as “Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year” at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards which took place in Milan on March 24, 2015. The award was assigned by an external jury made up ...