The European Commission has extended the scope of its investigation into whether Gibraltar’s corporate tax regime favors certain companies, in breach of EU state aid rules. Related Stories Brussels to accuse Apple over illegal Irish tax deals: FT Reuters EU says Ireland swapped Apple tax deal for jobs Reuters EU watchdog to… – Continue reading
(Reuters) – Tax evasion in Italy costs the country around 91 billion euros (70.91 billion pounds) every year, equal to about six percent of national output, the economy ministry said on Wednesday. Rampant tax evasion is considered one of the biggest problems of the euro zone’s third largest economy, which… – Continue reading
British chancellor George Osborne’s promise to clamp down on a tax avoidance loophole widely used by multinational technology companies could actually result in a reduction in the amount of money the government takes in, the Chartered Institute of Taxation has warned. Patrick Stevens, the group’s tax policy director, admitted the… – Continue reading
American technology companies are suddenly living in fear. European governments are finally standing up to the power of these giants that are happy to talk about the benefits their digital products and services bring to society while being accused of not paying their fair share of corporation tax, not doing… – Continue reading
BRUSSELS : The European Union’s tax investigation of Luxembourg focuses on a single unit of the Italian auto company Fiat. But the implications of the inquiry could in some ways be more far-reaching for multinational companies and their tax accounting than the bloc’s separate Apple-Ireland inquiry, experts said Tuesday. “I… – Continue reading
Billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey says it is “morally wrong” for a company to avoid paying tax in its home country. Weighing into the debate about corporate tax dodging, the owner of Harvey Norman told Fairfax Media he could “dramatically reduce” his company’s tax bill by shifting profits overseas but chose… – Continue reading
The Court of Appeal in Versailles has ordered the elusive international art dealer Guy Wildenstein, to pay a €20 million as a security deposit against tax avoidance allegations which have been levied against him. The funds must reach the court before by 15 October, according to the Le Monde newspaper…. – Continue reading
The cost of renouncing US citizenship has gone up with the introduction of the new Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) tax reporting rules. Many US expats are unhappy with their government because of special tax rules. The US is one of few nations to tax expats on their worldwide… – Continue reading
When the European Commission charged this week that Ireland’s sweetheart tax treatment of Apple amounted to an illegal corporate subsidy, the company said that it had done nothing wrong. Apple executives might have added that whatever they did, they were not alone. Corporate tax strategies intended to minimize global taxes,… – Continue reading
Troubled Italian fashion giant Prada stonewalled questions over its tax affairs on Monday after it emerged that its top two executives are being investigated for allegedly not disclosing many millions in overseas earnings to Italian authorities. Chinese fashion titans look to Italy for value (29 Sep 14) Global fashion circus… – Continue reading
eBay accused of tax avoidance, but insists it complies with letter of the law By Emma Woollacott, Sep 29, 2014Updated: September 30, 2014 7:24 AM Online auction site eBay got away with paying just £620,000 in tax on sales of over £1.3 billion last year, its latest accounts reveal. The… – Continue reading
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) UK will assist Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on tax and customs reform initiatives encompassing development of special skills to identify cases of transfer pricing, techniques to catch tax evaders and use of IT to control tax avoidance. It is learnt on Monday that the… – Continue reading
(Reuters) – Liechtenstein is investigating the main owner of Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank), Tsvetan Vassilev, and have asked for information about him, Bulgarian prosecutors said on Tuesday. Corpbank was hit by a run on deposits in June, triggering Bulgaria’s worst financial crisis since the 1990s. Vassilev was charged with… – Continue reading
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer over here in the UK, has just announced at the Conservative party conference that he’ll be changing the tax laws to make sure that Google GOOGL +0.16% and other tech multinationals (Facebook, Microsoft MSFT -0.17%, possibly Apple AAPL +0.64%, among them) end up… – Continue reading
A federal crackdown and a new act make life tougher for lawyers and accountants. Criminal tax attorney Robert Fink views the conviction and sentencing of his client Dr. Michael Canale—on tax fraud charges in New York state federal court in 2012—as representative of everything that’s wrong with the government crackdown… – Continue reading
The European Commission’s crackdown on the deal between Irish tax authorities and Apple Inc. marks an expansion in the growing global war on tax avoidance by multinational companies. Governments that enable it are now a target. Tuesday, the European Commission said the Irish tax authorities failed to conform to international… – Continue reading
Swiss banking giant UBS AG (UBS: Quote) is poised to pay a 1.1 billion euros or $1.4 billion security deposit in a French tax-evasion case as it challenges the allegations and bond demand, according to Bloomberg report citing a person familiar with the matter. The company is reportedly proceeding with… – Continue reading
Troubled Italian fashion giant Prada stonewalled questions over its tax affairs on Monday after it emerged that its top two executives are being investigated for allegedly not disclosing many millions in overseas earnings to Italian authorities. Chinese fashion titans look to Italy for value (29 Sep 14) Global fashion circus… – Continue reading
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Brussels has challenged Luxembourg over a tax ruling offering potentially illicit support to a Fiat subsidiary, opening a… – Continue reading
The European Union has accused Ireland of swerving international tax rules by letting Apple shelter profits worth tens of billions of dollars from revenue collectors in return for maintaining jobs. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the Dublin government in a letter published on Tuesday that tax deals agreed in… – Continue reading
Swiss private bank Julius Baer is cooperating in a French investigation into suspected money laundering and tax fraud by a former client involved in the European carbon allowances market, a spokeswoman said, following French media reports. News agency AFP said last week the bank is suspected of receiving funds in… – Continue reading
Canada is not a tax haven but its government is always looking to make the country more attractive to foreign investors, Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver said on Tuesday. Corporate tax laws have come under scrutiny following a spate of international deals structured to benefit U.S. companies by shifting their domiciles abroad…. – Continue reading
Tax attack Bill Shorten accuses the government during Tuesday’s question time of going soft on corporate tax avoidance; Tony Abbott says Labor did nothing in government. Autoplay ONOFFVideo feedbackVideo settings Bill Shorten: Corporate tax avoidance costs Australian business The Pulse Live: Judith Ireland blogs live from Parliament The Abbott government… – Continue reading
NEW DELHI: India’s largest realty firm DLF today said it has not received any findings from authorities on alleged service tax evasion of about Rs 30 crore. The company was replying to the clarification sought by stock exchange NSE on reports that DLF has come under the scanner of central revenue officials for… – Continue reading
The United States and Brazil have signed a “Model 1” intergovernmental agreement (“IGA”) with respect to the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”). The Brazilian IGA is intended to simplify FATCA information reporting and reduce compliance burdens for Brazilian financial institutions.
MUMBAI: The Isle of Man appellate court last week rejected builder Niranjan Hiranandani’s appeal, challenging its jurisdiction over a case of fraud and misconduct filed against him by Hirco Plc. Hirco, a property investment fund, had raised Rs 3,000 crore from global investors in 2006, to be invested in Hiranandani’s… – Continue reading
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) are conducting their business operations in India. Former BJP leader, Govindacharya has filed a case, raising concerns against the usage of e-mail services by offshore providers for official purposes by government officials. His Public Interest Litigation (PIL) also mentioned the tax evasion by… – Continue reading
Almost a third of Australia’s largest companies are paying less than 10¢ in the dollar in corporate tax, a report that exposes a gaping hole in government revenues over the past decade shows. As Australia prepares to host world leaders at the G20 summit in Brisbane in November, where a… – Continue reading
The European Commission is expected to announce today that Apple, now one of the world’s biggest listed companies, got special treatment from the Irish authorities, when the American company sought assurances on tax issues in 1991 and 2007 – – from the latter year, Apple’s foreign tax rate tumbled compared… – Continue reading
Discussion began heating up again about the “internet tax” last week when lawmakers pushed back the moratorium on Internet access taxes—set to expire on Nov. 1—until mid-December during the lame-duck session. In the meantime, let’s call it out for what it really is: a revenue grabber masquerading as “fairness”. Last… – Continue reading
Expats are shunning banks in the United Arab Emirates in favour of keeping their cash back in their home countries. Almost half of expats questioned for a survey stated they preferred banking their cash outside the UAE as they had more confidence in banks that they know at home. UAE… – Continue reading
Prada shares have also lost 30% of their value this year because of weak investor sentiment Continue reading the main story Related Stories Prada profit hit by fall in sales Prada shares fall on luxury warning The fashion business Prada’s two chief executives are being investigated by Italian authorities for… – Continue reading
While it’s said that death and taxes are inevitable, enough money and clever maneuvering can apparently help sidestep the latter. Witness the so-called dividend arbitrage, which is raising concerns from regulators thanks to its ability to allow big banks to create $1 billion per year in revenue, according to The… – Continue reading
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (Unity) met with the economy minister of Qatar Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, during which the two sides signed an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation, LETA was informed by the… – Continue reading
On September 24, 2014, the government of Brazil announced it had signed an intergovernmental agreement with the United States as part of its adoption of the requirements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The agreement was signed on September 23 by Finance Minister Guido Mantega and U.S. Ambassador… – Continue reading
FATCA, or the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, has been in effect for several months. The global tax law is aimed at rooting out Americans living outside of the United States who are not paying their U.S. taxes. But many expatriate Americans in Canada are fighting back. There are more… – Continue reading
(AFP) The European Union is to accuse US tech giant Apple of taking illegal aid from the Irish state through sweetheart tax deals over two decades, the Financial Times reported Monday. A European Commission investigation into Apple’s tax affairs in Ireland, where it has enjoyed a rate of less than… – Continue reading
European regulators are set to examine whether Apple violated EU law by striking special tax deals with the Irish government. The European Commission opened an initial investigation into Apple’s tax affairs in June, looking at whether the company’s two percent tax rate in Ireland — far less than the standard 12.5… – Continue reading
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has signed a multilateral agreement to boost its efforts in fighting tax evasion and improving compliance of taxpayers. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares, through special authority from the Office of the President, signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters… – Continue reading
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Port Louis: Pitching itself as the gateway for Africa, the scenic Mauritius is looking to attract more Indian investments across diverse sectors, including education and deep sea mining segments.The island nation provides “liberalised investment procedures and ease of doing business” while film shooting is another area that offers benefits for… – Continue reading
(Reuters) – British finance minister George Osborne said on Monday he was examining changes to clamp down on tax avoidance by multinationals which the government says are depriving Britain’s public coffers of hundreds of millions of pounds each year. “Some technology companies go to extraordinary lengths to pay little or… – Continue reading
Inland Revenue has gone shopping for a database to help it fight erosion of the tax base and “profit stripping” by multinational corporations. The database will help the taxman to independently assess the level of profitability companies should be returning for tax purposes by benchmarking the prices multinationals charge their… – Continue reading
Korean companies and individuals have invested more than 25 trillion won (about $23 billion) in 50 tax haven countries over the past seven years, according to a report submitted Sunday by the National Tax Service (NTS) to the National Assembly. “Investments by small-and medium-sized companies and individuals are in decline… – Continue reading
The Delhi High Court has sought clarification from the Union Government on the issue of tax evasion by Internet companies with regard to their business operations in the country. The Court also asked whether the recipients of services would be liable to pay tax if the service provider was outside… – Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — AbbVie Inc. is examining plans to raise additional financing to complete its takeover of Shire Plc, after U.S. officials imposed new obstacles to so-called tax inversion deals, people with knowledge of the matter said. AbbVie may seek to borrow as much as $7 billion more than it originally… – Continue reading
There is nothing illegal about tax planning. Yet some things are legal while others are not, and the lines can sometimes get fuzzy. Add to that the fact that some people go to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying taxes, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Increasingly, if you… – Continue reading
David Beckham, cricketer David Gower and Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell are among those set to receive tax demands totalling millions of pounds after investing in potential tax avoidance projects. HM Revenue & Customs is understood to have been sending out letters to investors in film finance schemes set up by… – Continue reading
Leicester City defender Matthew Upson is being linked to a scheme that is currently being investigated for tax avoidance. According to the Leicester Mercury, the 35-year-old could end up paying out thousands of pounds as a result of the investigation. The former England international reportedly invested in the Inside Track fund, which gives benefits… – Continue reading
Canada should not count on building its economy by luring U.S. multinationals over the border with low tax rates in light of an announcement from the U.S. Treasury Department this week. The department outlined new measures to block companies from escaping U.S. taxes by moving earnings outside the country. This… – Continue reading
