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Trump renew proposed tax cutting

Published: Sergey Panov | 10.08.2016 |

During his performance in Economic club in Detroyt 8 of August, republican, candidate of president, Donald Trump change his programme of tax cutting, particularly as to previously announced cutting of income tax rate for private individuals. Cutting of tax income, what flow from Trumps tax reforms can put more than USD9.5 trillion over ten years. As this deficit had been created largely at the expense of cutting individual income tax rate. His first proposition can help to cut childcare disbursements, let to parents completely take away the cost average cost of childcare disbursements from them taxes. As to business tax, Trump approved that he will provide tax rate cutting of all business to 15 percent. He said that the small companies would take away maximum profit from this plan. He also would like to take back trillions of dollars from American firms, which at the present has been based abroad. Corporative delay of foreign income will liquidate and corporative income at present time are providing abroad in international corporation by USA taxed at a reduced repatriation rate of 10 percent. Author: Olena Kutova senior lawyer of the Finance Business...

FinCEN expands the US real estate registration

Published: Sergey Panov | 03.08.2016 | news

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), published by the subsequent emission of Geographic Targeting Orders, temporarily will request from the US insurance property rights for companies to identify individuals behind front companies that use "all cash" (without bank financing) to acquisition of high-end residential real estate in six major metropolitan areas. Network remains concerned that all such purchases for cash may be held by individuals, attempting to hide their assets and identity through the acquisition of residential real estate, and as a result, they fall into the category of possible people who abuse their position in order to launder laundering and tax evasion. US Treasury Authority issued a similar deal Global Environment Monitoring (GTOs), issued earlier this year in Manhattan and Miami-Dade County, Florida. These orders have been confirmed, it is already helping to identify potential illegal activities and to help structure the future regulatory approaches to regulation. In particular, a significant portion of transactions under consideration showed a possible criminal activity associated with the persons who reportedly are the beneficial owners of...

In the USA propose tax credit for housebuyers

Published: Sergey Panov | 19.07.2016 |

The main member of financial committee of The USA Rone Wyden introduced an act of returning tax credit which must help to people who buys a new house. According to his propose the first buyer of living residential property will get returning tax credit around USD10,000 and it will be equal to 2.5 percent in the cost of the whole house. This credit will also increasing step by step for private individual who has a year profit more than USD80,000 and for marriage couples with year profit more than USD160,000. But if buyer sold his house within 5 years he must paying a part of credit if has no some important reasons as work replacing or military mobilization. "The housing policy in our country need a reconstruction, said Wyden. We have a lot of people who work hard to provide for a family and can't permit themselves to rent all the more so buy some house. The federal government need to do more to repair housing crisis on all stages with close co-working of state and city governments." He said that this program created after existing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit because of low profit of people. Another words this program of federal government provide of development and...

Consumption tax in the US reduced

Published: Sergey Panov | 12.07.2016 |

In a latest document from the Tax Foundation (TF), it was noted that, the largest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is more inclined to the proceeds from the consumption tax, the United States prefer more personal income tax, while at the raising relatively is differb a little from the consumption tax. TF said that "this difference of political issues, given that consumption taxes raise revenue with less economic damage than individual income taxes" According to the recent data for 2013, consumption taxes were the largest source of tax revenue for the OECD countries, increasing by an average of 32.7 percent of their tax revenues. However, taxes on consumption rose by only 17.4 per cent of revenue for the United States, mainly because the United States is the only OECD country without value-added tax (VAT). Instead, most governments states in the US use the retail sales tax on the final sale of most goods and excise taxes on the production of goods such as cigarettes and alcohol. The United States instead relies heavily on individual income tax, accounting for 38.7 percent of total government revenue in 2013, compared with the OECD average of 24.8...

Global IT tariff cuts

Published: Sergey Panov | 06.07.2016 |

On July 1 the first tariff cuts were implemented under the expanded Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which was agreed at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Nairobi in December 2015. The original ITA was concluded in 1996. The new agreement will eliminate tariffs on an additional 201 technology products. Products covered by the new ITA include video games consoles, GPS navigation systems, magnetic resonance imaging machines, telecommunications satellites, touch screens, and video cameras. It has been estimated that the products involved have a global export value of some USD1.3 trillion per year. Negotiations were conducted by over 50 WTO signatory members, but all members will benefit from the agreement as they will all enjoy duty-free access to the markets of the members eliminating tariffs on these products. It has been said that the tariff cuts will increase annual global gross domestic product by around USD190bn. The first tariff cuts were implemented on July 1, 2016, with successive reductions due to follow in up to seven years. Some countries, such as Singapore, have immediately eliminated all tariffs, but others, including the European...

OECD recommends US tax hikes

Published: Sergey Panov | 21.06.2016 |

In its latest review of the US economy, which was published on June 16, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recommended that increased long-term government spending on infrastructure and education should be funded by higher tax revenues. In particular, the OECD suggested that work towards putting a price on carbon, such as by implementing President Barack Obama's proposal for a USD10 per barrel tax on oil and his Clean Power Plan, would provide additional funds, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Worsening income inequality in the United States could, the OECD suggested, be countered if the Administration was to "expand the earned income tax credit … and make tax expenditures less regressive." For US businesses, the OECD also recommended making the research tax credit refundable for new firms, which are not able to take advantage of the existing non-refundable credit because of low profitability. Such a measure aimed at increasing productivity in the economy would be an alternative to the current congressional patent box proposals that are not favored by the OECD. Few of the OECD's proposals are likely, in fact, to be...

US corporate tax reform

Published: Sergey Panov | 23.05.2016 | Без категории

Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch held a hearing on the question of integrating the new corporate tax reform. The reforms will allow US corporations to deduct dividends paid from their tax calculations. Hatch said that "under the current system the income obtained only once on behalf of the shareholders is taxed twice because of fiction created by the law which considers the business and its owners as two separate taxpayers. In particular, the income is taxed at a rate of 35 percent. " Hatch is also noted that "the current system of double taxation has led to a number of unpredictable economic distortions which might not exist in a more integrated system" - including the bias in the selection of a business entity in relation to the corporate model. There are two main ways to integrate corporate and individual tax code to allow shareholders for the corporate tax credit or allow corporations to deduct dividends. One of the reasons why Hatch chose to follow the latter option is that it will allow companies to reduce their own effective tax rates. It is also necessary to establish the relationship between debt and equity which may help with certain...

Is it possible to get away from double taxation?

Published: Sergey Panov | 18.05.2016 | blog

In our article today we will try to found an answer for a popular question - how multinational companies of innovation technologies avoid a taxation? Also we will talk about one of the biggest international company nowadays. This company started with з producing PC in 1998 and pocket music player with rigid disk in 2001, this company has been developed technologies what we used to use in our daily life. Not even creative and challenging character helped them to get a success but also clever way in questions with taxation. Parliament proceeding on 2014 was announce that in period from 2009 to 2012 they could cover more than USD 44bn. Even do not pay attention that the general director said that they had any violations by their side. With that this occasion was beginning of a lot revolts as in the USA as in other countries, where this company have has an essential profit and pay misery tax. Fundamental in international taxation is based on such principle of "all income should be taxed only once." In other words, the rules relating to international taxation should not only allow to avoid double taxation, but also to avoid double tax evasion. After a short analysis of the tax...

The third international business forum in Kharkiv

Published: Sergey Panov | 21.04.2016 | news

Attorneys of our company attended the third international business forum in Kharkiv which was held on 7 April this year. This forum is a response of Ukrainian business community to the situation in our country. Each year, this event is visited by more than three hundred and fifty directors and managers of different companies. Forum raised topical issues of the transformation of the Ukrainian business. Key issues of the forum - best practices for attracting investment, obtaining grants, development of business in crisis and access to the European market. Business Forum provided two program’s format in the usual forms, it is the speech of speakers and discussions, as well as have been introduced two new formats - "Investment Salon", where Ukrainian companies asked questions about raising grants and "projects Battle", where entrepreneurs present their startups. Also Ivan Miklos delivered a speech for the first time in Kharkov - he is the ex-finance minister of Slovakia and one of the authors of the "Slovak economic miracle". Its main purpose of a speech was a desire to share its experience and help Ukrainian businesses to successfully adapt to the economic transition. At the...

Switzerland, US Agree FATCA

Published: Sergey Panov | 03.03.2016 |

Switzerland and the United States agreed on a new Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), with the exception of accounts belonging to lawyers and notaries. In accordance with the provision of the agreement, an account maintained for specific purposes by lawyers and notaries to their customers (ie accounts that are for certain activities) will be excluded from the scope of the new law. The financial institution account management will not be required to identify interested customers by providing written confirmation of a lawyer or notary that the accounts fall under the scope of the exemption clause. According to the Swiss Federal Council, this will ensure that professional confidentiality of lawyers and notaries will be maintained under Swiss law. Swiss Bankers Association will amend the relevant processes documentation to allow banks implement new products. Negotiations on the introduction of the new agreement are underway. In contrast to the current transaction, the new agreement will provide for the automatic exchange of information between the tax authorities. Author: Olena Kutova senior lawyer of the Finance Business...

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