10/07/2014
New Delhi wants to exert pressure on the Alp nation following a pact between the world's key economies, G20, for sharing information on bank accounts and tax offenders.
10/06/2014
Obama and Osborne have been quick to promise an end to avoidance. But this is best achieved through collective action
10/02/2014
Those administering offshore structures are increasingly exposed to the consequences of moves to increase the level of cross-border tax assistance.
10/02/2014
The tax-take accruing to cantons was 6.6 percent of GDP, up from 6.5 percent. The tax-to-GDP ratio for municipalities was unchanged at 4.1 percent.
10/01/2014
What You Need to Know About Corporate Inversions
09/30/2014
DQ is continuing to see an increased use of undercover agents by the IRS and other tax authorities in offshore jurisdictions.
09/29/2014
Documents offered to the Directorate of Internal Revenue could prove that hundreds of Icelanders are avoiding paying taxes through the use of shelters.
09/29/2014
Tax bureau gets Swiss bank accounts data
The head of the AFIP tax bureau Ricardo Echegaray received yesterday an encrypted CD from the French government containing information on 3,900 undeclared bank accounts of Argentine origin in the Swiss branch of HSBC.
09/29/2014
Australia's top companies have been unswayed by a global crackdown on corporate tax avoidance, with almost 60 per cent of the top 200 listed companies holding subsidiaries in tax havens or low-tax jurisdictions.
09/26/2014
Signatures handed in to protect domestic banking secrecy
On this point, cabinet is set to address the concerns raised by the initiative, as it instructed the finance ministry in July to draw up a revision of the Swiss fiscal code to address tax evasion issues.
09/26/2014
FATCA: What's everyone else doing?
For most managers, this deceptively simple first step has often proved to be the most difficult.
09/26/2014
UAE, Barbados sign agreement
Agreement was signed by Reem Bint Ebrahim Al Hashemi, Minister of State, and Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Barbados
09/25/2014
Mauritius, India in talks to address tax treaty concerns
Dispelling 'misperceptions' that Mauritius is a tax haven, its financial sector regulator has said the island nation is in discussions with India to address concerns and make changes to the bilateral tax treaty.
09/24/2014
This article focuses on the 2014 Australian Full Federal Court decision in Commissioner of Taxation v Resources Capital Fund III LP
09/24/2014
“It will be a costly exercise that will run until spring of next year,” Shelby du Pasquier, a partner at Lenz & Staehelin in Geneva, told the Euroforum private banking conference in Zurich today.
09/23/2014
September 15, 2014 is an important for taxpayer who maintained accounts at any of 106 Swiss banks that are participating in the Department of Justice non-prosecution program.
09/23/2014
In a move tied to budgets, Canada’s Revenue Agency is cutting its top staff focused on international tax evasion.
09/23/2014
If these permanent establishments receive revenue from dividends, interest, or royalty payments from a third state with which Switzerland also has a DTA
09/21/2014
Fighting the $53 billion global tax dodging trends
OECD chief Angel Gurria Saturday handed the G20 recommendations on the biggest changes to international tax rules in more than a century in a bid to tackle corporate tax strategies that are costing countries billions.
09/21/2014
The UK is a 'tax haven', whether we like it or not
Archaic rules mean the world sees us as a tax haven