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20 Sep 16
Indonesia is launching a criminal case against Google's parent company Alphabet with hopes of obtaining five years’ worth of back taxes, a senior government tax official has told Reuters.
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20 Sep 16
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of the GDF Suez group, over concerns it may have given the company an unfair advantage and breached EU...
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16 Sep 16
Pakistan has become the latest nation to sign up to the OECD’s international cooperation initiative to combat tax avoidance and evasion, the think-tank has announced.
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16 Sep 16
The European Commission has compiled a list of nations that could one day find themselves on the first common European Union blacklist of countries that do not adhere to good tax practices.
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13 Sep 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has called on governments to make globalisation more inclusive.
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13 Sep 16
The US Securities and Exchange Commission should require greater tax disclosure from multinational companies in order to protect investors as well as the public, according to the Financial...
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12 Sep 16
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has said Laos must maintain “the momentum of fiscal consolidation” to safeguard its transition to a lower-middle income country.
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7 Sep 16
A United Nations report has unveiled the “staggering” cost of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, where the economy might otherwise be twice its current size.
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6 Sep 16
Greece looks set to have another €2.8bn in bailout funds frozen amid reports that its European creditors will withhold the cash for the rest of the year due to lack of progress with reforms.
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6 Sep 16
The European Union lost a "staggering" €160bn in value added tax revenues in 2014, according to European Commission data released today.
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5 Sep 16
The G20 have vowed to make the most of flexible fiscal policy to boost sluggish global growth, as well as to strengthen economic governance through transparency and international tax collaboration.
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5 Sep 16
Chinese president Xi Jinping has warned his fellow G20 leaders from allowing their latest meeting to become an empty “talk shop” as rising protectionism, sluggish investment and geopolitical risks...
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2 Sep 16
Millions of workers across India are on strike today to protest what they see as anti-labour policies driven by prime minister Narendra Modi.
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1 Sep 16
Ahead of this weekend’s G20 summit, the International Federation of Accountants is calling for a host of accounting issues to rise higher up the global agenda
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31 Aug 16
The World Bank has approved a $15m technical assistance project to help Ghana improve its public financial management, it was announced yesterday.
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30 Aug 16
Apple has been ordered to repay up to €13bn in back taxes plus interest after the European Commission ruled that tax breaks granted to the company by Ireland for over two decades were illegal.
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30 Aug 16
Over 100 countries are now participants in an OECD international cooperation initiative to combat tax avoidance and evasion, the think-tank has announced.
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23 Aug 16
The global crash in commodity prices presents an opportune moment for local governments in Africa to make their areas more attractive to oil and gas investors, PricewaterhouseCoopers has said.
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22 Aug 16
Former French economy minister Arnaud Montebourg has announced his candidacy for next year’s presidential elections, and accused incumbent François Hollande of betraying the “ideals of the left”.
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8 Aug 16
Eastern Africa should look to fund development using domestic savings and remittances rather than debt, foreign direct investment or aid, the United Nations has said.
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8 Aug 16
Tougher international tax laws around foreign trusts have been proposed in New Zealand in line with recommendations made in an inquiry set up in response to the Panama Papers.
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4 Aug 16
The European Union has hit Chinese and Russian steel producers with anti-dumping tariffs, including retroactive levies on imports registered before February.
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4 Aug 16
An historic tax reform that will help create a single market in India has been backed by the country’s parliament.
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4 Aug 16
An all-party parliamentary group in the UK has claimed the international proposals to combat global tax evasion do not go far enough and may create new loopholes that could be used to avoid paying...
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3 Aug 16
The OECD has praised the recent introduction of “game changing” anti-corruption laws in Mexico, which it said would substantially transform the nation’s graft-fighting architecture.