09/20/2012
Managers at Swiss bank UBS turned a blind eye when traders exceeded their agreed limits as long as the bank was making money from their deals, a lawyer for accused "rogue trader" Kweku Adoboli told a London court on Thursday.
09/18/2012
The Spanish government will keep a tax on the wealthiest in the 2013 budget as the country aims to cut its deficit down to 4.5% of the gross domestic product next year, reports Expansion in its Wednesday Internet edition, citing unidentified sources close
09/18/2012
Despite having originally planned major wealth tax reforms, the French government is now resigned to the idea of merely re-establishing the previous wealth tax scale of between 0.55% and 1.8%, and to introducing a fiscal cap of 80% of income to accompany
09/16/2012
The state of North-Rhine Westphalia has helped Germany recover more than 3 billion euros ($3.9 billion) from German tax evaders after buying compact discs with details of Swiss bank accounts, according to the region's finance ministry.
09/16/2012
Property entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz has been released from bail, leading to a growing belief that the Serious Fraud Office is preparing to drop its long-running investigation of his business activities.
09/16/2012
On September 12, the United States and the United Kingdom governments announced the signing of a bilateral agreement to implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions within the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
09/16/2012
There have been renewed calls for the Belgian government to honour its pledge and reform the current system of taxation in Belgium, to remove the current disparity between the taxation of labour and the taxation of wealth, and in so doing shake off the co