Canada and Costa Rica’s economic relations have been strengthened with the signature of two key new deals and the launch of talks to modernize an existing free trade agreement (FTA). Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on August 11 the inking of an air transportation agreement (ATA) and a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) between [...]
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The Isle of Man has launched a new Network Services Licence for business-to-business e-Gaming operators. The Network Services Licence is a new level of licence available under the existing Online Gambling Regulation Act 2001 (OGRA) and is designed to recognize the business-to-business relationships that many gaming operators now have. The licence aims to provide Isle [...]
The UK government has announced that it will review the case for amending the taxation regime for remote gambling following last week’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) proposal to make changes to the regulation of remote gambling. In a written ministerial statement to Parliament on July 18, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Justine [...]
It seems that US anti-piracy bodies could be seeking to extradite international website owners for copyright infringement, regardless of the level of connection the owners have with the US. If you’ve been following the extradition case of UK student Richard O’Dwyer, then it may appear that extradition agreements between the countries have been encroaching on [...]
On May 17th Timothy Geithner, the US Secretary of the Treasury, informed the US Congress that the country’s public debt had reached the limit of $14,294 set by the legislators. He said that if the Congress and the Senate didn’t increase the limit of the US public debt, then Washington wouldn’t be able to fulfill the [...]
by Robert Lee, Tax-News.com, London The UK is to launch a series of further tax evasion crack-down schemes over the next year, tackling private tutors, e-marketplaces and traders, using new technologies to target suspects. Following on from recent announcements on a spate of anti-avoidance measures, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has stated that it is [...]
By Gordon Clark, The Province June 5, 2011 Stick a candle in a cake and blow it out: we’ve all got something to celebrate. (On second thought, you’d better not light those candles. You don’t want to add to your carbon footprint.) If you believe the Fraser Institute (and who doesn’t?) Monday is Tax Freedom [...]
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by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington For the first time in seven years, a Canadian federal election has produced a majority government. The re-election of Stephen Harper’s Conservative party sets the scene for an administration with a professedly low-tax agenda, the reintroduction of the party’s late Budget and a further reduction in the headline rate of [...]
