02/26/2014
Rising taxes are one of the biggest concerns for investors in Europe according to a recent investor survey from Schroders, which also found confidence is growing among investors.
02/26/2014
Insufficient funding for the Belgian justice system runs the risk that only minor cases of tax evasion are processed, Nouwynck said.
02/25/2014
Cyprus and Norway have signed an Agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Tax Evasion, concerning Income Taxes, as well as a relevant Protocol.
02/24/2014
French Budget Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has told the National Assembly Finance Committee that almost 16,000 residents with undeclared foreign bank accounts have elected to regularize their tax situation in the last eight months, through a voluntary decla
02/24/2014
The tribunal, under Judge Colin Bishopp, described that evidence as "very brief and rather uninformative".
02/20/2014
Group Says its Members Are Willing to Buy More of Government's Debt
02/19/2014
The German deal was originally agreed in principle in 2011, about 10 days before a similar scheme was approved for the UK, in 2011.
02/19/2014
Officials started pushing for the tax in the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis to curb speculation by investors and claw back revenues following the government bailouts of banks.
02/18/2014
Swiss Tax Deal Seen Buried After Prominent German Cases Revealed
A proposed Swiss-German tax accord is dead and buried amid growing public opposition in Germany to any agreement that’s seen as too easy on evaders
02/18/2014
Germany, France seek to revive transaction tax plan
Germany and France will lead a face-saving bid this week to revive a flagging project to tax financial transactions in 11 euro zone countries and allay fears it could hamper economic recovery.
02/18/2014
Wealthy Britons risk leaving their loved ones with an unexpected tax bill after a new report revealed less than half are aware of the inheritance tax threshold.
02/17/2014
The Italian justice is claiming him 39 million euros for an old case pending for an alledged tax evasion
02/14/2014
Skandia has called on the Treasury to extend tax relief on advice for employees given through the workplace.
02/12/2014
The wealth tax limits the Norwegian business sector, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Solberg dismisses that the wealth tax is a tax for the wealthy.
02/10/2014
Amid the spate of cases, the public perception of tax-dodging is shifting from that of a naughty but common misdemeanour to a crime and a moral assault on fair burden sharing in society.
02/07/2014
The treasurer for Chancellor Angela Merkel's party said he would give up his position in April, after facing criticism for transferring money into a Bahamas-registered trust in 1997 and as a widespread debate on tax evasion continues to simmer here.
02/07/2014
U.S. charges Swiss asset manager in offshore tax fraud case
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced they indicted Peter Amrein, a Swiss asset manager, on charges that he assisted U.S. taxpayers in evading millions in taxes by hiding money in offshore trusts at multiple Swiss banks.
02/06/2014
The law also applies to foreign companies that are substantially owned by US taxpayers.
02/05/2014
Revelations that prominent Germans have for years hoarded cash in secret bank accounts have prompted calls from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Social Democrat coalition partners for a clampdown on tax dodging.
02/05/2014
Greece’s chronic difficulties with tax evasion was a topic of discussion today when Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras met his Swiss counterpart Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf in Athens.