Lowtax Features Tagged 'United States'
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15 Sep, 2014
To listen to United States President Barack Obama and members of Congress rail against "unpatriotic" companies using corporate "inversions" to escape America's high 35% rate of corporate tax, you'd think that tax was the sole factor in a company's...
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29 Aug, 2014
Research tends to inform us that as individuals we pay much more in tax then we actually need to. However, when it comes to tax planning, it is difficult in the current climate to know where the line between...
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27 Aug, 2014
In recent times, exchange of information for tax purposes between governments has largely relied on the text of Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention, which standardises the means by which information...
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19 Aug, 2014
With the corporate inversion debate having hijacked the political agenda in Washington over the past couple of months, triggered it seems by Pfizer's ambitious bid for Britain's AstraZeneca, this edition of LATN Monthly...
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12 Aug, 2014
The Republic of Panama lies in Central America between the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean and is probably best known for its eponymous canal, which remains a vital artery for trade in goods between East and West...
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23 Jul, 2014
The location of about a quarter of the worlds assets under management, Switzerland is a landlocked, independent country strategically located at the heart of continental Western Europe and measuring 15,941 square miles...
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10 Jul, 2014
Described by the US Government as a "major milestone" on the path to eradicating offshore tax evasion, but branded by its critics as "the worst law that most Americans have never heard of", the Foreign Account...
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03 Jul, 2014
As in many countries, the tax code in the United States attempts to encourage people to save for their retirement by providing various tax incentives. However, as many savers, retirement plan providers and lawmakers have observed...
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24 Jun, 2014
Double tax avoidance agreements rarely generate controversy. Indeed, dozens of them are approved by legislatures around the world on an almost weekly basis with few people actually noticing. In the United States however...
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28 May, 2014
On March 14, 2014, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published its Discussion Draft on Action 6 of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, on preventing treaty abuse. However, as with many other aspects of the OECDâs work in relation to BEPS, respondents have warned that the proposals threaten to punish innocent taxpayers and disrupt global investment flows.
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