ZURICH, Sept 24 - Switzerland will sign a 12th new double-taxation treaty later on Thursday, thus fulfilling criteria to be taken off an international tax haven list, the country's Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz said. "I...
* U.S., Swiss formally sign new dual tax treaty * Swiss agree to international standard on data exchange WASHINGTON, Sept 23 - The U.S. and Swiss governments on Wednesday formally signed a new tax treaty,...
ASTANA, Sept 23 - Kazakhstan will keep its corporate income tax, as well as its mineral extraction levy unchanged next year, deputy economy minister Timur Suleimenov said on Wednesday. Previously, the government had planned to...
BEIJING, Sept 23 - Chinese government agencies were studying a proposal to tax greenhouse gas emissions at some point in the future, the 21st Century Business Herald reported on Wednesday. Such a tax, as suggested...
SEOUL, Sept 23 - South Korea expects total tax revenue in 2010 to grow 3.9 percent following a 1.6 percent drop in 2009, in line with a recovering from the worst economic downturn in a...
MANILA, Sept 22 - Philippine lawmakers in the lower house of Congress agreed on Tuesday to delay debate on a proposal to impose new taxes on text messages that would raise revenues to help to...
-- Paul Taylor is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own -- PARIS, Sept 21 - No longer just a hopeless cause for anti-capitalist activists, the idea of a global tax on financial...
BERLIN/ZURICH, Sept 21 - Germany is likely to keep pressuring Switzerland over tax evasion after Sunday's federal election, but it may pursue the matter less aggressively if Chancellor Angela Merkel can form a centre-right government....
* IRS extends amnesty program to declare off-shore income * 3,000 applicants have come forward since March (Adds IRS confirmation) WASHINGTON, Sept 21 - U.S. tax authorities will extend a limited amnesty program for taxpayers...
NEW YORK, Sept 21 - U.S. tax authorities will extend a limited amnesty program for U.S. taxpayers who have undeclared income on foreign accounts to Oct. 15 from Sept. 23, The Wall Street Journal said...