Tax-News.com: The Swiss Federal Council has recently held talks on a 'credible' financial centre strategy designed to deflect international criticism over issues such as tax and banking secrecy.
Tax-News.com: The UK's HM Revenue and Customs will launch thirty new taskforces as it sets its sights on generating GBP50m from tax evasion crack-downs this year alone.
Tax-News.com: Within a white paper issued in October last year, the South African government reviewed its climate change policy, and the Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan has now, in his 2012 Budget, provided the proposed design for a carbon emissions tax.
Tax-News.com: Changes to the UK's tax system could help generate investment and stimulate growth, the Confederation of British Industry argues in its 2012 Budget submission.
Tax-News.com: Following President Obamas corporate tax reform proposals, Mitt Romney, one of the leading Republican presidential candidates, issued his own proposals to kick-start United States economic growth by cutting tax rates, broadening the tax base and providing for tax simplification.
Tax-News.com: The Australian government has held the inaugural meeting of the Superannuation Roundtable, which has agreed that a priority going forward is to get better information around the current distribution of tax concessions.
Tax-News.com: The United States Internal Revenue Service has announced that refunds totalling more than USD1bn may be waiting for one million people who did not file a federal income tax return for 2008.
Tax-News.com: The governments of the Falkland Islands and the United Kingdom stand to benefit from as much as USD167bn in windfall taxes according to a new report on oil and gas deposits thought to lie in the maritime area surrounding the Falkland Islands.
Tax-News.com: The New Zealand Treasury has issued its Budget Policy Statement, which sets out the overarching policy goals that will guide the government's fiscal decisions and its priorities for the forthcoming Budget.
Tax-News.com: During a meeting on February 22 of the State Council, which was chaired by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, new health insurance reform objectives were established for the period of the 12th Five-year Plan (2011-2015).
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