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24 May 2013
The date when a claim for cross border group relief is made should form the basis of a decision about one of the tests for granting that relief under EU law and not the date of the end of the accounting period in which the claim was made, the Supreme...
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23 May 2013
Companies should be banned from bidding for public sector contracts or benefiting from state aid if they base themselves in blacklisted tax havens, MEPs have said.
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11 Apr 2013
The five largest European economies have agreed to a "pilot" automatic information exchange arrangement, intended to help them tackle tax evasion, the UK Treasury has announced.
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21 Mar 2013
The Chancellor's announcement in the Budget that, from April 2015, the UK corporation tax rate will fall to 20% could have "a wide adverse international impact" according to Eloise Walker, a corporate tax expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind...
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07 Mar 2013
Tax authorities in the UK and China have signed off on changes to a double taxation agreement between the two jurisdictions, but have yet to announce when the new arrangements will come into force.
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18 Feb 2013
Global finance ministers have promised "collective action" to prevent tax avoidance by multinational businesses, with the UK promising to "lead" efforts to update international tax laws.
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18 Feb 2013
The European Commission has published the details of a financial transaction tax (FTT) it claims will raise between €30 billion and €35bn a year for the 11 states that have agreed to participate.
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13 Feb 2013
An international body responsible for promoting economic coordination has called for "global solutions" to corporate tax avoidance by multinational businesses.
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24 Jan 2013
International governments must "act together" in order to tackle the growing problem of tax avoidance by multinational companies, the Prime Minister has said.
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21 Jan 2013
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has increased its focus on international businesses it suspects of using profit shifting techniques to avoid taxes in the UK, according to figures obtained by Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com.
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