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29 Mar 16
Auditors in the United States have raised concerns about the Internal Revenue Service’s handling of financial and taxpayer data, warning that both the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive...
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24 Mar 16
The OECD should no longer be responsible for undertaking reviews of the global tax system, a UK parliamentary group examining changes to the international taxation has been told.
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24 Mar 16
The Africa Tax Symposium will take place in Entebbe, Uganda, from 4-6 May, it has been announced.
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18 Mar 16
Tax revenues in Latin American and Caribbean countries are still well below the OECD average, despite a slight rise in 2014, an analysis has found.
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16 Feb 16
Sri Lanka’s “chronic” revenue shortfalls must be addressed and its economy must become more competitive and inclusive if poverty is to be reduced, the World Bank has said.
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3 Feb 16
India has gone ahead with structural reforms to its tax policy institutions with the formation of two new bodies it hopes will achieve a more coherent and independent approach to analysing new...
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2 Feb 16
A colonial-era tax treaty between Malawi and the UK is costing the African country significant amounts of lost tax revenue and must be reformed, the charity ActionAid said today.
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29 Jan 16
The World Bank is to help Latvia improve the efficiency, equity and competitiveness of its tax system, it was announced yesterday.
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28 Jan 16
More than thirty countries have today signed an agreement that enables the automatic sharing of country-by-country financial reports from multinational companies.
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28 Jan 16
The European Commission has set out new measures to crack down on corporate tax avoidance that seek to push member states to improve coordination of approaches.
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19 Jan 16
European Union member states that infringe tax-related state aid rules should not be able to keep money they recover in unpaid tax, the European Parliament has called.
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13 Jan 16
The European Commission’s top tax official has said countries have “looked the other way” in the face of serious tax avoidance and pledged to take action this year to improve transparency.
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11 Jan 16
The European Commission has deemed a Belgian government tax scheme illegal and ordered around €700m to be recovered from the 35 multinational companies who benefited from it.
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18 Dec 15
The International Monetary Fund has warned that if the Ukrainian parliament rejects the government’s 2016 budget its $17.5bn bailout programme could be disrupted.
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17 Dec 15
China has become the 77th party to an OECD agreement enabling the automatic annual exchange of tax-related information.
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7 Dec 15
Companies caught cheating on their tax bill in Australia will have to repay double what they owe plus interest under news laws to prevent tax avoidance by multinational companies.
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4 Dec 15
Switzerland’s EFG Bank is to pay a penalty of $29m to the US Department of Justice to avoid prosecution for helping its American account holders evade taxes.
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27 Nov 15
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a suite of corporate tax reforms that will ensure multinational companies pay taxes where profits are made and increase transparency.
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24 Nov 15
British parliamentarians are seeking views on international tax reforms following their endorsement by the G20 last week.
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2 Nov 15
Further strides towards greater tax transparency around the world have been made with 13 countries signing up to the international framework enabling the automatic exchange of information.
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22 Oct 15
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has added his voice to international calls for tax reform in the developing world.
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21 Oct 15
Tax breaks offered by two European countries to multinational firms Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler have been ruled illegal by the European Commission, with the companies ordered to pay back taxes they...
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15 Oct 15
Tax officials from across Southern Africa met in Mauritius last week to discuss how to develop fairer systems to deal with large taxpayers in the region.
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12 Oct 15
Developing countries must continue raising more in domestic taxes while taking advantage of wider efforts to combat tax evasion by multinationals, the IMF/World Bank annual meetings were told.
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7 Oct 15
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa must respond to demands for better living standards by taxing natural resources more effectively, an international conference heard this week.