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The EU given time to fix of the budget deficit

Published: 12.08.2016 |

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#EU #Spain #Taxation

The European Council overturned the fines for Spain and Portugal for infringement of excessive deficit rule and established a new "fiscal path" for each country, which will have to follow. Such action follows from the preceding Council decision on the fact that Spain and Portugal have not taken effective measures to correct its excessive deficit and will now have to implement the recommendations made by the European Commission in their respective fields. In July, the Council confirmed that Spain and Portugal have not been able to reduce its deficit to below three percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for the time. Once provided financial assistance amounting to 78 mrad euros (86.9 billion dollars) from the EU, the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2011, Portugal was not able until 2014 to bring its deficit in line with EU expectations. For this reason, in June 2013. The Council further extended to 2015 and set targets deficits of 5.5% of GDP in 2013, 4% in 2014 and 2.5% in 2015. Portugal was able to achieve a given economic restructuring program in June 2014, but in 2015 the general government deficit was 4.4% of the country. The July decision of the...

Australia has made prejudice for a big corporation

Published: 11.08.2016 | news

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#Australia #Taxation

Australian Tax Organization announced a range of alerts for taxpayers that bi companies will be caution in use tax avoidance system. The firs alert as to agreement, where Australian consolidation group all the time use offshore constitutions, which are in inner operation. Deputy Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn said: "With help of this mechanism their true income can be low and in that fact the take-outs will be incorrect. "Taxpayers must provide returned taxable income properly, because it reflects the economic substance and significance of the operations carried out under the principle of arm's length. ATO in the present time investigate the cases when this mechanism and also structure in the answer for multinationals against Tax Avoidance Law which had made to increase tax for goods and services. ATO in a similar way to warn against deliberate calculation of debt capital for the purposes of the thin capitalization rules. Conza said: "In some cases, taxpayers are not able to include the cost of debt interest, which has been treated as equity for accounting purposes of debt capital As a result, adjusted average debt of the taxpayer understated, allowing them to...

Trump renew proposed tax cutting

Published: 10.08.2016 |

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#Taxation #USA

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...

HMRC publishes guidance on a tax-free trade

Published: 09.08.2016 | Без категории

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#United Kingdom #VAT

The tax authority and the Tax and Customs Service of the United Kingdom released a practical guide by the UK's special scheme which allows to non-EU countries taxpayers to reimburse VAT on goods purchased in some UK stores. VAT Notice №704 / 1, issued August 7 discusses how those who live outside the European Union may return the value added tax (VAT) paid for goods purchased in stores of Great Britain, which in turn provide retail products without VAT. Tax free retail trade allows individuals traveling to the European Union (EU) to obtain a VAT refund on goods bought in the UK and take home. However, it can not be used for any service. In most instances store or refund from the company will charge a payment for use of the taxpayer in its stores and tax-free goods can take the fee out of the money paid to the VAT refund. The manual discusses the right to use this circuit, which products satisfy the set requirements, the time required for export, as well as the requirements for receiving the refund. Author: Sergey Panovmanaging partner Finance Business...

DTA entered into force between Russia and Hong Kong

Published: 08.08.2016 |

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#Double taxation #Exchange of tax information #Hong Kong #Russia

Comprehensive agreement for the avoidance of double taxation (CDTA) was signed in January of this year between Hong Kong and Russia, which came into force on 29 July 2016. According to the sources, this agreement shall remain in force for Hong Kong each year since its signing to double taxation, which took place on or after April 1, 2017. The CDTA is informed about what is required to support efforts to expand the tax obligations undertaken by the two countries in the framework of the «Belt and Road», which is a project of the Chinese government for the economic development aiming at the integration of trade and investment between the approximately 60 countries in Eurasia. In the absence of the CDTA program, of Hong Kong companies income, which conduct their entrepreneurial activities with the help of permanent missions in Russia and taxed in both places if their earnings was received in Hong Kong. On this basis, in the new agreement, double taxation is eliminated, and now any Russian tax paid by the companies on their earnings, will be allowed to tax payable in Hong Kong. Besides, in accordance with this agreement, the rate in Russia on income tax on royalties, up to the...

Japan is increasing sales tax

Published: 05.08.2016 |

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#Japan #Taxation

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced to continue previously started process of increasing gradual consumption tax. The eight percent rate of gradual consumption tax in Japan first time was planned to increase it for 10 percent in October 2015, but because of current plans, it won't working in near feature to October, 2019. IMF in its 2016 Article IV consultation report for Japan said that the country need to repulse of previously planning rate for 2019 year and instead of to start with previously announced rate, step-by-step increase as fast as possible. IMF said that gradual increasing of consumption tax at least for 15 percent with 0.5-1 percentage point after several time could help to balance targets of objectives of supporting growth and achieving fiscal sustainability in the long run. In the report noticed that the structure of one rate must be save for a long time and worrying about tax impact on low-income households addressed by targeted cash transfers. The stable budget consolidation of 1.5 percent in gross domestic product (GDP) per year to 2030 year will be enough to put the public debt-to-GDP ratio on a downward path, the Fund said. ...

Luxembourg reviewing verdict on LuxLeaks

Published: 04.08.2016 | Без категории

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#Luxembourg #Taxation

Luxembourg public prosecutor lodged an appeal against the verdict on the recent so-called scandal "LuxLeaks", arguing that the sentences imposed by the court was too lenient. Earlier this year, Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet, both former employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) consulting firm, received suspended sentences by the court 12 and 9 months, respectively, for their role in the disclosure of thousands of documents detailing the private tax ruling between multinational companies and the tax authority of Luxembourg. They also had to pay a fine of 1,500 EUR (1,680 USD) and 1,000 EUR, respectively. A third defendant, a French journalist Edouard Perrin, who made the initial discovery of LuxLeak and the first to publish the story on French television, was acquitted of all charges. Let us recall that in this scandal for the exemplary data were involved 340 major transnational and national companies from around the world. It is believed that the defendants, with the support of the local authorities thought out and implemented an elaborate scheme of tax evasion, in some cases, reducing the payout to just 1%. The defendants face various charges during the trial, which...

London companies are concerned about overpriced business tariffs

Published: 03.08.2016 |

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#England #United Kingdom

According to the new survey of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), 44 percent of London businesses are concerned about the forthcoming reassessment of business rates in the UK (the property tax). Business rates are generally remeasured every five years when the government adjusts the value of the business rates to reflect changes in the real estate market. The new rates will be determined and announced on October 2016 and come into force from April 2017. In addition, according to the changes announced in the 2016 fiscal year, the administration of the business rates will be simplified, as from 2020 a mechanism for increasing the power will be switched from the index of retail prices in the consumer price index. Greater London Authority will move towards the full retention of business rates since April 2017. LCCI stated that among the companies that have in its structure 10 or more people, 55 percent of respondents were concerned about the forthcoming adjustments. Half of the respondents said they do not know whether they will be able to benefit from the additional business rates. Furthermore, 42 percent of respondents said they believe that the transferred...

FinCEN expands the US real estate registration

Published: 03.08.2016 |

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#Real estate #USA

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...

EU signed tax agreement with IOTA

Published: 01.08.2016 |

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#EU #Exchange of tax information #Taxation

The Intra-European Organization of Tax Administrations (IOTA ) has signed tax agreement with European Commission to develop the solution of more effective way to common targets which this two brunches are working on and also one kind of them activity to prevent double tax avoidance. According to announce of IOTA 26 of July the main brunches of co-working in agreement frames include battle against swindle, information exchange, alternate support, support of tax departments to increase the level of maintenance by taxpayers. The agreement was signed between IOTA and the Taxation and Customs Union Directorate General (DG TAXUD) of the European Commission 7 of July. Edery said: «Commission has get a support IOTA from the day it start exist and attentively watching it progress. We have common target to support European states in development and modernization of tax administration. Based in Budapest, IOTA is a non-profit intergovernmental organization, created to promote using the best practice in tax administration direction and more effective co-working with 46 tax authorities’ members. Author: Olena Kutova senior lawyer of the Finance Business Service...

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