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 »
Canada's small businesses urged the Government to cut corporate tax in the 2017 Budget. What they got instead was something entirely unsatisfactory... Read Full Article »
There are many alternative phrases to describe the sharing economy. One of them is the "collaborative" economy. Collaboration seems to be in very short supply, however, when it comes to the taxation of the companies... Read Full Article »
When are changes in taxation a tax "reform," and not merely a tax "change"? Why, when the Government says so of course! But I've noticed recently that there is a discrepancy in what some governments think is a tax reform... Read Full Article »
With a Republican Congress, and a Republican (of sorts) in the White house, opponents of FATCA have probably never had a better opportunity to have the controversial law repealed. Indeed, the anti-FATCA lobbying campaign is already... Read Full Article »
While President Trump's executive order blocking travel from 7 high risk countries makes it's way through our courts, there's a much larger travel ban looming on the horizon. This one will affect up to 16 million American citizens... 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 »
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 »
The shock of the election of e Trump in the United States has rippled through the Mexican economy. The fears related to his negative comments have had a massive effect on the markets, and the Mexican currency pummeled to 13%... 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 »
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