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| November 20, 2008 |
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The French National Assembly Finance committee has ratified a parliamentary change
to the 2009 Finance Bill, aiming to impose a global ceiling on tax breaks for any one individual.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Google recently reached an agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association
of American Publishers under which the firm will pay USD125m to resolve
outstanding legal actions against it in relation to its Google Book search service,
which offers full-text searching facilities to users.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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The Chinese government has unveiled a set of value added tax reforms as part of its CNY4 trillion (USD586bn) economic stimulus package.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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The G20 Summit in Washington which resulted in numerous pledges and a broad consensus on the need for international co-operation to minimise the impact the financial crisis, and lessen the repercussions of a looming global recession, has placed renewed pressure on World Trade Organisation agricultural negotiators to square their differences with alacrity, and hence save the Doha round of free trade talks.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Iceland's Minister of Finance, Arni M. Mathiesen, has presented a bill for an amendment to the
Stamp Duty Act to assist people in payment difficulties.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Bookmakers in Ireland are braced for tough times ahead with the Irish government’s decision to double betting tax expected to compound poor results for many companies in the industry.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Macau's government has revealed that it will not be giving a tax concession to the city's gambling industry, despite announcing its intention to cut taxes in other areas.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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The Liechtenstein government has ratified proposals seeking to amend three provisions
contained within its value-added tax law.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Former French President Jacques Chirac has strongly urged the international community
to impose a new international tax on shipping, in a bid to generate long-term
resources designed to finance water projects in developing countries.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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European Commission proposals to allow reduced value-added tax rates for a wider range of services, could provide the United Kingdom government with an opportunity to boost the increasingly pressurised labour market, according to KPMG.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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The World Intellectual Property Organization is a unique organization with an individual contribution to make in meeting the global challenges faced by the United Nations family, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon announced during his first ever visit to the Organization’s Geneva headquarters on November 18, 2008.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Australian Tax Commissioner Michael D’Ascenzo has issued a statement warning foreign residents selling indirect holdings in Australian real property about arrangements that attempt to avoid Australian capital gains tax.
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| November 20, 2008 |
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Malaysia's Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Jacob Dangau Sagan, has announced that Malaysia will continue Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the US.
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