06/26/2015
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has taken a swipe at Switzerland for providing only limited information about wealthy tax evaders from cash-strapped Greece who are believed to have stashed billions of euros in Swiss banks.
06/26/2015
"Tax avoidance practices therefore are responsible for a significant leakage of development finance and resources," UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi told a news conference.
06/26/2015
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has introduced legislation aimed at preventing offshore tax avoidance by some U.S. hedge fund “reinsurers.”
06/26/2015
The Government of Jersey has signed a Double Tax Agreement with the Republic of Rwanda.
06/26/2015
The current transparency agenda and the harmful tax practices initiative date all the way back to 1998, the year the OECD published its seminal paper ‘Harmful Tax Competition’ an Emerging Global Issue
06/25/2015
While the term “tax haven” has taken on pejorative qualities in modern times, the actual truth about these essential locales is very bullish
06/25/2015
STEP reports a particularly high number of international entries for this year’s awards, with the judges shortlisting only the most outstanding in each category.
06/24/2015
Mauritius denied itself as a tax haven when the Finance Minister of the island visited the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris Tuesday.
06/24/2015
The OECD has criticized the recent blacklisting of the Cayman Islands and other offshore financial centers that are part of OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes
06/24/2015
The Irish Revenue Commissioners have announced an extension to the FATCA reporting deadline for local Financial Institutions (FIs).
06/24/2015
The new treaty does not change the maximum rate of withholding tax on dividends of 5%
06/24/2015
It is the seventh member of the African Tax Administration Forum to join the Convention and becomes the 87th jurisdiction participating to this truly global instrument to fight international tax avoidance and evasion.
06/23/2015
From the Cayman Islands to Jersey, tax havens are busier than ever – a secretive world of offshore accounts and shell companies. Nothing to do with you? Then you win my Hermit of the Year prize
06/23/2015
Tax havens are used for more than just saving money. When companies take advantage of their lack of transparency for more sinister activities, shareholders can lose out.
06/23/2015
Bracken Rothwell is redefining its services using the latest social media storytelling trends.
06/23/2015
This higher penalty was created as part of the June 2014 OVDP reforms
06/22/2015
America’s policy of recovering undisclosed taxes has been slammed as “skewed” by the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations
06/22/2015
The Swiss voters have decided to reject the initiative to introduce a federal inheritance tax by a vast majority of 71.7 per cent
06/22/2015
'Without prejudice to countries' sovereign positions, we are happy to confirm that these jurisdictions are cooperative and we would like to commend the tremendous progress made over the past years as well as the cooperation and integrity of the
06/22/2015
The G20's efforts to crack down on multinational tax avoidance are likely to be defeated by national self-interest, particularly from the United States, one of Australasia's top tax advisers says.