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26 Jan 18
German chancellor Angela Merkel has said Europe should not complain when countries, like the US, change their tax systems but instead respond by reforming its own.
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25 Jan 18
The European Union has officially removed eight countries from its blacklist for tax havens, leaving the list to just nine jurisdictions outside the bloc.
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24 Jan 18
The UK must remain an international leader in the fight against tax dodging as it leaves the European Union next year, an all-parliamentary group heard yesterday.
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23 Jan 18
The US Congress voted yesterday to end the three-day government shutdown, approving a short-term funding bill until 8 February.
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23 Jan 18
The US shows countries are running the risk of increasing their debt to levels where they will not be able to borrow anymore, warns the University of London’s Professor Michael Ben-Gad.
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18 Jan 18
The European Union may remove eight countries from its tax haven blacklist after the jurisdictions offered to change their tax rules.
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12 Jan 18
A likely German coalition plan would provide tax relief for citizens of €10bn over the three years to 2021, a draft agreement has said.
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10 Jan 18
US tech giant Apple has been forced to pay an extra £136m in tax to the UK after an “extensive audit” of the company’s business arrangements.
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8 Jan 18
The UAE administration has agreed 70% of revenue from its new value-added-tax will be distributed to local governments.
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8 Jan 18
Italy’s right-wing parties pledged to cut taxes, tackle the issue of migration and reverse planned increases to the retirement age, in a manifesto outline released yesterday.
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5 Jan 18
Hungary and Ireland have expressed opposition to harmonise tax rules across the European Union, saying it undermines competition within the single market.
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19 Dec 17
The Dutch government has said it will cooperate with the European Commission investigation into Ikea’s tax arrangements in the Netherlands, as part of an EU crack-down on aggressive corporate tax...
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19 Dec 17
The Philippines has ratified a bill that will lower income taxes while increasing taxes on sweetened beverages, petroleum products, cars and tobacco next year.
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19 Dec 17
Austria’s centre-right People’s Party and the anti-immigration Freedom Party have agreed to form a coalition government.
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12 Dec 17
Finance ministers across Europe have called on the US to rethink its tax reform proposals, arguing they are discriminatory and could harm both the financial sector and international trade.
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8 Dec 17
The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
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6 Dec 17
The European Council has published its ‘blacklist’ of 17 countries classified as tax havens, which could lose access to funds from the bloc.
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5 Dec 17
The US Senate has narrowly approved plans paving the way for the president’s “massive tax cuts”, which could see more than a trillion dollars added to the national debt.
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4 Dec 17
European governments are leading the ‘race to the bottom’ as tax rates globally are heading towards zero by 2052, a study has found.
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29 Nov 17
A number of European Union member states would be blacklisted as tax havens according to the bloc’s own rules, NGOs have said.
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21 Nov 17
El Salvador has been hailed as a “stand-out tax reformer” as it climbed up 22 places on an annual World Bank index ranking countries according to where it is ‘easiest to do business...
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8 Nov 17
The UK government should take action to increase transparency and tackle tax dodging, which is costing the world’s poorest regions $170bn every year, Oxfam has said.
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6 Nov 17
World leaders have come under pressure to address tax avoidance as leaked documents revealed global official figures and businesses have invested their wealth offshore.
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3 Nov 17
The United States has unveiled the new legislation for its “historic tax cuts and reforms”.
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20 Oct 17
The US Senate has passed a budget blueprint that paves way for president Donald Trump’s tax cuts.
26 Jan 18German chancellor Angela Merkel has said Europe should not complain when countries, like the US, change their tax systems but instead respond by reforming its own.
25 Jan 18The European Union has officially removed eight countries from its blacklist for tax havens, leaving the list to just nine jurisdictions outside the bloc.
24 Jan 18The UK must remain an international leader in the fight against tax dodging as it leaves the European Union next year, an all-parliamentary group heard yesterday.
23 Jan 18The US Congress voted yesterday to end the three-day government shutdown, approving a short-term funding bill until 8 February.
23 Jan 18The US shows countries are running the risk of increasing their debt to levels where they will not be able to borrow anymore, warns the University of London’s Professor Michael Ben-Gad.
12 Jan 18A likely German coalition plan would provide tax relief for citizens of €10bn over the three years to 2021, a draft agreement has said.
10 Jan 18US tech giant Apple has been forced to pay an extra £136m in tax to the UK after an “extensive audit” of the company’s business arrangements.
8 Jan 18The UAE administration has agreed 70% of revenue from its new value-added-tax will be distributed to local governments.
8 Jan 18Italy’s right-wing parties pledged to cut taxes, tackle the issue of migration and reverse planned increases to the retirement age, in a manifesto outline released yesterday.
19 Dec 17The Dutch government has said it will cooperate with the European Commission investigation into Ikea’s tax arrangements in the Netherlands, as part of an EU crack-down on aggressive corporate tax...
19 Dec 17The Philippines has ratified a bill that will lower income taxes while increasing taxes on sweetened beverages, petroleum products, cars and tobacco next year.
19 Dec 17Austria’s centre-right People’s Party and the anti-immigration Freedom Party have agreed to form a coalition government.
8 Dec 17The EU’s tax blacklist is just another toothless, empty list, argues George Turner of the Tax Justice Network.
5 Dec 17The US Senate has narrowly approved plans paving the way for the president’s “massive tax cuts”, which could see more than a trillion dollars added to the national debt.
21 Nov 17El Salvador has been hailed as a “stand-out tax reformer” as it climbed up 22 places on an annual World Bank index ranking countries according to where it is ‘easiest to do business...
6 Nov 17World leaders have come under pressure to address tax avoidance as leaked documents revealed global official figures and businesses have invested their wealth offshore.
