News Stories Tagged 'Austria'
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Curacao Signs BEPS Multilateral Instrument
by Mike Godfrey, Lowtax.net, Washington
02 January, 2018
Curacao, the low-tax Caribbean territory, has become the latest jurisdiction to sign the BEPS multilateral instrument to revise tax treaties to counter base erosion and profit shifting.
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Guernsey Decries Its Inclusion On EU Blacklist
by Jason Gorringe, Lowtax.net, London
18 June, 2015
Guernsey's Chief Minister and Commerce and Employment Minister have expressed their astonishment that Guernsey has been included on a new list of 30 so-called 'non-cooperative' non-EU jurisdictions.
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Bahamas Signs New AIFMD MoUs
by Mike Godfrey, Lowtax.net, Washington
03 April, 2015
The Bahamas Securities Commission has signed Memoranda of Understanding with the securities regulators of Cyprus, Austria, and Spain, to open up market access for fund managers under the European Union Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
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Liechtenstein Banks Report Positive Performance In 2013
by Ulrika Lomas, Lowtax.net, Brussels
28 August, 2014
Client assets managed by banks in Liechtenstein grew by around 1.6 percent to CHF120.2bn (USD131.3bn) last year, according to the Liechtenstein Bankers Association's 2013 annual report.
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Guernsey To Adopt New Tax Info Sharing Standard
by Jason Gorringe, Lowtax.net, London
03 June, 2014
Guernsey will share tax information automatically under the multilateral convention on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters from August 1, 2014.
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Swiss Banks Committed To Tax Transparency
by Ulrika Lomas, Lowtax.net, Brussels
21 March, 2014
Thomas Sutter, Head of Communications at the Swiss Bankers Association, has reiterated the Swiss banking industry's commitment to enforcing tax compliance and adopting the automatic exchange of information as the new international standard.
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Luxembourg, Austria Hold Savings Tax Talks
by Ulrika Lomas, Lowtax.net, Brussels
13 February, 2014
Luxembourg's Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna has held talks in the Grand Duchy with his Austrian counterpart Finance Minister Michael Spindelegger, with the discussions focussing on a banking union as well as on European Union savings tax regulations.
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Luxembourg Softens Stance On Revised Savings Directive
by Ulrika Lomas, Lowtax.net, Brussels
11 February, 2014
During a news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel underscored that the Grand Duchy does not intend to block the planned revision of the European Union Savings Tax Directive, while making clear that there are certain provisos.
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Austria, Luxembourg Warned Over "Cat And Mouse" Banking Secrecy Tactics
by Ulrika Lomas, Lowtax.net, Brussels
21 January, 2014
As negotiations between Switzerland and the European Commission officially begin on a planned revision of the EU-Swiss savings tax accord, European Tax Commissioner Algirdas emeta has warned Austria and Luxembourg that there is no more time "to play cat and mouse" on envisaged changes to the EU's own Savings Tax Directive.
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