As I posited last week, 2019 is unlikely to go down in history as the year of bipartisanship in Washington. We're barely a couple of weeks into the 116th Congress and look what's happened already... Read Full Article »
What was the real driving force behind the publication of the European Union Commission Blacklist of Non-Cooperative Jurisdictions? I refer to the publication of The Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on a Fair and Efficient Corporate Tax System in the European Union: 5 key Areas for Action, Read Full Article »
Yesterday, the United Kingdom (UK) delivered a letter to the European Union (EU) stating that Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon had been triggered and the UK's intention to leave the EU... Read Full Article »
Economists are already discussing the expected results from BREXIT on the global business, and this is not an unknown fact. Every aspect is put in perspective, before and after one of the largest economies in the World leaves the European Economic Block... Read Full Article »
That the European Commission insists on transparency from member states in the area of taxation, when the EU's executive arm itself is seen by many as an opaque and undemocratic organ of EU governance... Read Full Article »
Costa Rica was recently chastised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for repeated failures to overhaul its tax system and replace its general sales tax with a much more internationally familiar value-added tax system... Read Full Article »
Well, that was certainly an interesting year! Indeed, it's difficult to pick out just three or four tax developments in a year that has been so eventful. But I'm not planning on sitting here until Christmas 2017 writing about what happened in 2016... Read Full Article »
Those who know a bit about English history might be familiar with the rhyme that describes the fate that befell King Henry VIII's six wives: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. The rate at which presidents... Read Full Article »
They say that a week is a long time in politics. It certainly seems to be in Hungary. We have gone from Prime Minister Viktor Orban telling us, on November 10, that he was in favor of cutting corporate tax here and there over... Read Full Article »
There seems to be no limit on the type of information that governments are now willing to exchange with each other. First it was details about people's bank accounts, then it was company transfer pricing information... Read Full Article »
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