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Germany’s €6bn mega-float puts London on notice
September 4th, 2014
Europe’s biggest online fashion player Zalando, a rival to Britain’s Asos, plans to raise more than €500m (£399m) to fund its expansion by listing a stake on the Frankfurt stock exchange. The announcement comes as London’s tech community launches ...
Scammers posing as IRS agents extort $5 million
September 4th, 2014
Callers posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents have stolen $80,000 from Arizona residents since January in a nationwide scam that continues to grow both in volume and in threat. Federal authorities said Wednesday that as many as 1,100 ...
Gibraltar Delays Introduction Of New Companies Law
September 3rd, 2014
Gibraltar has agreed to industry requests to delay the introduction of its new Companies Act and Insolvency Act for a month, until November 1, 2014. The announcement was made in response to requests from the financial services industry and ...
Washington-area business owners’ tax burden mounts as economy rebounds
September 2nd, 2014
A rebounding economy means more customers, higher sales and new jobs. It also means higher taxes. State and local tax bills for companies across the country grew modestly last year as the economic recovery accelerated, according to new research ...
Abenomics, European Style
September 1st, 2014
Two years ago, Shinzo Abe’s election as Japan’s prime minister led to the advent of “Abenomics,” a three-part plan to rescue the economy from a treadmill of stagnation and deflation. Abenomics’ three components – or “arrows” – comprise massive ...
CBO Reduces US Corporate Tax Revenue Forecast
September 1st, 2014
In its latest estimates, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has maintained its forecast for a reduced United States federal budget deficit this year, but has had to increase it from the forecast made in April, mostly because of lower-than-anticipated ...
Japan Abe aide Hamada: Could do next sales tax hike in stages
August 27th, 2014
Japan could soften the impact of a planned sales tax increase by raising it in stages rather than IN a single hike, an outside adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday. Koichi Hamada, professor emeritus of economics ...
Bahamas FM searching for new Financial Services Options
August 27th, 2014
The Bahamas is exploring new financial services offerings as well as the development and expansion of the yachting and maritime sectors. Michael Halkitis, the Bahamian Minister for Finance, reported that all changes need to be undertaken in a fiscally ...
Keeping Corporate Lawyers Silent Can Shelter Wrongdoing
August 27th, 2014
Have you heard of Maritza I. Munich? The answer is almost certainly no, yet she is a central figure in Walmart’s unfolding bribery scandal. Ms. Munich was a Walmart lawyer who advocated an aggressive response to investigating the scandal ...
Canadian corporate tax attracts U.S. companies
August 26th, 2014
Canada has become the latest frontier for U.S. companies fleeing the high cost of business, spurred by low corporate taxes and a policy that keeps international earnings out of the clutches of the Internal Revenue Service. It’s “not fair” ...
