Tax-News Feature: VAT Review
With governments increasingly coming to rely on revenue from indirect taxation, managing value-added and sales tax exposure has rapidly become one of the most important tax issues facing companies...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Global Tax Topical Focus – Australian Budget
Faced with strengthening economic headwinds, plunging tax revenues and a wider-than-anticipated budget deficit, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan has just performed that manoeuvre so familiar to...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Global Tax Topical Focus - FATCA Is Coming
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is seen by some as a necessary tool to combat unacceptable tax avoidance by US citizens placing money in foreign bank accounts at a time when more ‘patriotic’...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: International Real Estate Taxation
In our previous feature on international real estate taxation, we recounted how governments in Europe in particular were becoming increasingly reliant on higher or new property taxes as part of their...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Staring Over the Fiscal Cliff
Can a deeply divided United States Congress, in an election year, pull the iron out of the fire and agree on a key tax and spending bill that will save America from toppling over the so-called 'fiscal...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Personal Tax Review
In the years preceding the onset of the financial crisis, personal income tax rates were, by and large, on the way down across the OECD member states. However, while some of these countries have...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Tax-News Global Trade
Given that politicians, central bankers and economic commentators frequently tell us that we are in the grip of the worst economic and financial crisis since the 1930s, it is not surprising to see...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Global Tax Topical Focus
As governments attempt to extract the maximum amount of feathers from the goose with the minimum amount of hissing, they are increasingly turning their attention towards the wealthiest few percent of...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Tax-News Corporate Tax Review - Tax Rates
Despite ongoing pressure to increase tax revenues, a lot of governments have realised that when it comes to corporate tax, the best way to boost the tax take is to encourage corporate expansion,...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Cyprus Review 2012/13: Holding Companies
A lot has happened to Cyprus over the past 12 to 18 months as the country found itself caught up in the conflagration of the Eurozone debt and banking crisis. As a result, some taxes have been raised...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Cyprus Review - Banks
After sailing through the initial phase of the global financial meltdown and ensuing credit crunch relatively unscathed, the European debt crisis has, it seems, finally caught up with Cyprus, with its...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Malta Shipping Review 2012/13
With its location in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, a centuries old maritime tradition and a respected and favourable regulatory and tax regime for shipping, it is no surprise that Malta has...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Topical Focus - Transaction Taxes
With the European Union - less than half of it at any rate - having reached a momentous agreement to forge ahead with a tax on financial transactions, in this article we give an overview of transaction...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Tax-News Cyprus Shipping Review 2012/13
The Cypriot shipping industry has experienced strong growth since the creation of the shipping registry in 1963 and several ingredients have combined to make Cyprus one of the most important locations...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Malta Holding Companies Review 2012/13
Malta, like Cyprus, has been obliged to dismantle its old 'offshore' companies regime as a trade-off for joining the European Union. EU membership has, however, brought about certain benefits for...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Malta Review 2012-13: E-Gaming
In the autumn of 2000 the Maltese government passed legislation enabling online betting centres to be set up in the country, and this legislation, coupled with provisions from the Income Tax Act...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Irish Budget Review
Announcing the government's Budget for 2013, Finance Minister Michael Noonan declared that, just two years after the catastrophic near-collapse of the country's banking system and its subsequent...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: International Real Estate
There has been no shortage of events in the area of real estate taxation across the world since our last news round-up on this subject, and, as before, two distinct trends continue: while Western...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Global Trade: The Asian Century
Progress towards the completion of the Doha Round of world trade talks remains stalled, and the World Trade Organization has warned of a lurch towards protectionism. However, the world’s major trading...
View ArticleTax-News Feature: Accounting Standards: Introduction to IFRS
As if tax wasn’t complicated enough in most jurisdictions, businesses must also contend with accounting standards rules that, internationally, are in a state of flux as countries harmonize their own...
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