The Egyptian Tax Authority and the Real Estate Tax Authority have signed a cooperation agreement on Tuesday to exchange data and information in order to create a database that facilitates the collection of taxes. Head of the Tax Authority Abdel Moneim Matar said, in a Ministry of Finance statement, that… – Continue reading
NEW DELHI: India said it was cracking down on attempts to launder black money locally and told people with unaccounted assets abroad that it will become increasingly difficult to conceal these, urging them to make use of a window that shuts on September 30. The government will start receiving financial… – Continue reading
Five days after the emergence of the most serious allegations of large-scale corruption in recent memory, the PSNI has still not opened a criminal investigation. The TUV leader Jim Allister said that, after days of continued revelations about the irregular nature of the sale of NAMA’s – the Republic’s ‘bad… – Continue reading
Silver streaming company Silver Wheaton Corp said it received a proposal from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on Monday to reassess the company under various income tax rules. The CRA is seeking to tax streaming income earned by the company’s foreign units and said that Silver Wheaton’s taxable income should… – Continue reading
Finance Act 2015 has expanded the scope of the agreements meant for avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion to be executed by the federal government. Explaining the Finance Act 2015, Former FBR Member Habib Fakharuddin said that the federal government may enter into an agreement, bilateral or… – Continue reading
BARBADOS is targeting the South American country of Colombia for more international business. A delegation from the island will be spending the next week or so in that country as this island looks to broaden the more than $900 million in domestic contributions by the international Business and Financial Services… – Continue reading
PETALING JAYA: Public Bank Bhd yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Saitama Resona Bank Ltd and Kinki Osaka Bank Ltd to cross-sell each other’s banking products in Malaysia and Japan. Saitama Resona Bank and Kinki Osaka Bank are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Resona Holdings Inc, which also owns Resona… – Continue reading
NEW DELHI: India is likely to sign the inter-governmental pact for the US tax compliance law FATCA on Thursday, a move that will help it fight tax evasion. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is aimed at combating possible tax evasion by Americans through financial entities of other countries. The… – Continue reading
Ian Barlow previously ran UK tax department at KPMG and was close associate of controversial One Hyde Park property tycoons Nicholas and Christian Candy The chair of HM Revenue & Customs has confirmed that he gave advice of a “general business nature” to the property tycoons behind One Hyde Park,… – Continue reading
The present French Tax Update will focus on an overview of several noteworthy French tax court decisions issued during the past few months. BUYBACK AND CANCELLATION OF OWN SHARES The tax treatment of buybacks, from the shareholders’ point of view, has now been simplified through a change of legislation, i.e.,… – Continue reading
With a new government at India’s center and positive macroeconomic fundamentals working in its favor, the private equity industry is expected to invest more actively into India over the short to medium term. In the past year, inflation has steadily tapered, the fiscal deficit has been reduced, domestic demand has… – Continue reading
Against a backdrop of slowing economic growth at home, Canadian companies are actively looking to expand in markets such as the United States, China and Mexico, says Simon Cooper, chief executive of global commercial banking at HSBC Bank Plc. “In Canada, from the companies I’m talking to about how they’re… – Continue reading
Channel 4 documentary shows agents in wealthy districts agreeing to continue with purchase to be made with ill-gotten gains from Russian health budget Top estate agents in Britain’s wealthiest postcodes are willing to turn a blind eye to apparent money laundering by corrupt foreign buyers, according to an investigation by… – Continue reading
Industrial & Manufacturing groups which have operations in Finland, should review their funding arrangements to ensure they remain tax effective following a recent case in Finland which may now be put on a statutory footing. The Finish tax authorities treated a hybrid instrument as equity and the related interest expense… – Continue reading
With the increasing focus by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on offshore activities, it is important to understand the tax return and information return filing obligations that may be associated with such activities. Because application of many of these obligations is not entirely clear in certain common situations, many taxpayers… – Continue reading
The UK Government’s goal is to make the UK the best place in the world to locate an international business; it has one of the most open economies globally, a highly skilled workforce, access to capital markets, a first-class infrastructure, and a highly competitive corporate tax system. UK tax policy… – Continue reading
STELLAR Capital Partners, the newly constituted investment company aligned to retail tycoon Christo Wiese, will acquire an influential stake in industrial supplies and services business Torre for R690m. According to a Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) announcement released on Monday night, an unidentified vendor consortium will sell 133-million Torre shares… – Continue reading
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – the leading international standards-setter for tax transparency and cooperation – has underlined Guernsey’s reputation as a cooperative jurisdiction, reports Guernsey Finance. Monica Bhatia, Head of the Secretariat of the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes… – Continue reading
Concerns have been raised that there is an anomaly in the Canadian overseas pension schemes system, as under Canadian law savers are allowed to encash them at any age, irrespective of the UK’s pension age test, reports the FT Adviser. HM Revenue and Customs’ pension age test requires schemes to… – Continue reading
The new banking act, harmonized legislation for the OECS being pushed by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank got its first reading in the parliament in Basseterre Tuesday. However the parliamentary opposition is crying foul because the debate which was expected to kick off on the act was put off by… – Continue reading
Around 700 people have applied for Malta’s ‘cash-for-passports’ scheme, described as on the most popular schemes run by Henley & Partners, their vice-chairman Andrew Taylor said during a radio interview on a South African radio station, reports the Maltese Independent. Extolling the virtues of the scheme, Mr Taylor said that… – Continue reading
As chancellor allegedly George Osborne prepares to crack down on non-doms in Wednesday’s budget, experts have recommended offshore bonds as an alternative to those facing an increasing amount to protect their foreign earnings from UK tax. According to The Financial Times, chancellor George Osborne has committed to increasing the annual… – Continue reading
HMRC has delisted thousands of overseas schemes that could previously accept pension transfers from Britain HM Revenue and Customs has launched a crackdown on overseas schemes open to UK expats who want to move their pension abroad, with hundreds being removed from its approved list. Australia is one of the… – Continue reading
A corporate tax reform coalition blasted President Obama’s international tax proposals on Tuesday, saying they would accelerate the sort of offshore maneuvers that Democrats want to eliminate. The Alliance for Competitive Taxation said that the White House’s proposal to impose a minimum tax on multinational corporations’ foreign earnings would only… – Continue reading
There are estimated to be one million Britons living in Spain, with UK expatriates making up the largest group of European foreign nationals. Many Britons arrive with certain misconceptions around the tax and financial make-up of the country. The foreign perception of the Spanish tax system is made up of… – Continue reading
Following the Financial Crisis of 2007-8, there has naturally been a spike in scrutiny of the banking sector. Many of the practices were condemned as traders were found to be conducting illegal practices in certain cases, there is still much debate about what measures can be taken to fully prevent… – Continue reading
Royal Decree No. 26/2015 ratifies the Agreement on Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries (Borders) in Sea of Oman between the Sultanate of Oman and the Islamic Republic of Iran, signed in Muscat on May 26, 2015. Article (1) ratifies the above-mentioned Agreement. Article (2) states that this Decree shall be published… – Continue reading
Booming demand for offshore tax services will trigger a £240m takeover deal involving a unit of Appleby Global, Sky News learns. The booming demand for offshore trust and fund administration services will be underlined in the coming days by a $370m (£238m) takeover deal involving Bridgepoint, the London-based buyout firm…. – Continue reading
Lacklustre earnings growth, low returns on equity and the explosion of self-managed superannuation schemes could prompt the major banks to sell all or parts of their wealth businesses, global bank Citi predicts. Citi analyst Craig Williams noted that the banks’ wealth arms, largely acquired in the early 2000s, had not… – Continue reading
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers will remove Austria from the list of countries transactions with whose counterparties are subject to control under the law on transfer pricing on August 1, 2015. This is stipulated in Cabinet resolution No. 677 dated July 1, 2015, which is available on the government website on… – Continue reading
The business community has criticized the imposition of withholding tax on transactions over Rs 50,000 and urged the government to withdraw this immediately. They also warned if the government and FBR didn’t accept their demand, would compel to take extreme steps, even go for strike and launch protest campaign against… – Continue reading
Kenyans in the US will be protected from double taxation, the Kenyan ambassador to the US, Robinson Githae, has said. Mr Githae said he understood the concerns of Kenyans in the US after a provision of a federal law requiring US citizens and permanent residents (green card holders) to report… – Continue reading
The Republic of Latvia has removed Gibraltar from its blacklist of tax havens, the latest EU country to recognise that the Rock complies with international rules on exchange of financial information, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle. The decision by Latvia comes after the EU last month published a list of the… – Continue reading
Greece has proposed a tax amnesty in an effort to collect revenue on billions of euros that its citizens are believed to have quietly stashed in Swiss bank accounts, the NZZ am Sonntag paper reported, reports Reuters. The plan, which still needs Greek parliamentary approval and a final accord with… – Continue reading
Chancellor George Osborne needs to carry out an “ambitious” tax reform agenda in his Budget on Wednesday, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has said, reports the BBC News. Simplifying the “painfully complex” tax system would allow him to “deliver an investment-boosting Budget”, said IoD director Simon Walker. In May, a… – Continue reading
Banks have intensified their calls for George Osborne, the UK chancellor, to give them a break on the bank levy in this week’s Budget by arguing that it has already caused a 13 per cent shrinkage of UK banking assets, reports the Financial Times. Optimism is growing among senior bankers… – Continue reading
PIRAEUS: In Piraeus, the harbour town west of Athens, a group of sailors take turns to squat a ferry they once worked on. Protest banners flutter in the air. “Our money!” says one; “we’re starving” says another. These sailors say they haven’t been paid salaries for more than nine months… – Continue reading
The OECD has backed Guernsey in its fight against tax haven status, describing the crown dependency’s inclusion on the European Commission’s list of top 30 non-compliant tax jurisdictions as “very surprising”. Monica Bhatia, head of the secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Global Forum on Transparency and… – Continue reading
Taxes covered The agreement applies to taxes on income imposed by either country. In Bahrain these are currently the income tax payable under Legislative Decree No. 22/1979 (“the Oil Tax”); in Cyprus they are income tax, corporate income tax, Special Contribution for Defence (known as SDC tax) and capital gains… – Continue reading
The Financial Monitoring Service of Azerbaijan’s Central Bank will send the National Action Plan on the elimination of risks in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing to the World Bank in September 2015. The National Plan was discussed by WB’s experts during a seminar held in Baku between… – Continue reading
Lopez Valdes clarifies that only information given by state bodies The implications of the Law Enforcement Tax Accounts Abroad (FATCA for its acronym in English) adopted by the United States in March 2010, has generated unrest globally, because that nation imposes conditionalities that violate laws local. That legislation provides, among… – Continue reading
WITH the aim of promoting tax culture in the country, the government has resurrected a law drafted in 2012 to encourage citizens to expose tax evaders and induce people who have stashed away their wealth offshore to bring home their money. By extending the legal cover to whistleblowers through the… – Continue reading
Cape Town-based think tank the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) is gearing up for an international campaign to have Lonmin’s mining licence revoked due to a number of reasons. These include the events related to the Marikana massacre during a strike by Lonmin workers and alleged tax evasion by… – Continue reading
The ATO is looking to catch more big-time tax cheats by hiring new specialist public servants, just months after paying more than 400 of them tens of millions of dollars to leave. The Tax Office is advertising technical specialist jobs at APS 6, EL1 and EL2 pay levels in two… – Continue reading
Oxfam, a multinational organisation, says Africa is haemorrhaging billions of dollars because multinational companies are cheating African governments out of vital revenues by not paying their fair share in taxes. This is contained in a statement issued by the organisation, interested in combating poverty, and made available to newsmen in… – Continue reading
Access to company data is vital if policymakers are to understand how changing regulatory requirements influence performance Much focus has recently fallen on the issue of tax avoidance, as research on the subject has increasingly shown that the global economy is losing out on billions of dollars to a byzantine… – Continue reading
VANCOUVER, July 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Silver Wheaton Corp. (“Silver Wheaton” or the “Company”) (TSX:SLW) (NYSE: SLW) announces that it has received a proposal letter dated July 6, 2015 (the “Proposal”) from the Canada Revenue Agency (the “CRA”) in which the CRA is proposing to reassess Silver Wheaton under various… – Continue reading
Draft laws bringing corporate tax and value-added tax (VAT) to the United Arab Emirates are expected to be completed later this year, Gulf News has reported. “The draft of the corporate tax law and the value-added tax law has been discussed with the local and federal governments,” said Younis Haji… – Continue reading
The gross revenue generated from the system of tax retention on interest payments made in Switzerland to European Union (EU) taxpayers was down from CHF510.1m (USD542.9m) in 2013 to CHF317m in the 2014 tax year. In compliance with the agreement with the EU on the taxation of savings, in force… – Continue reading
As far as Sebi’s role goes, it might spread itself too thin if it chases every whiff of a tax scandal Lately, there have been a string of orders by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) alleging misuse of stock exchanges for tax evasion. The market regulator’s investigations… – Continue reading
