| 04/17 - Greece’s new conservative government expressed cautious support yesterday for a United Nations plan aimed at reuniting the island of Cyprus before it joins the European Union on May 1. |
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| 24/07/2003The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service this week announced the issue of notice 2003-50 which addresses the interaction of the 'stapled stock' and foreign tax credit limitation rules under Tax Code Section 269B. |
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| 23/07/2003In a report released last month, the European Commission revealed that all of the forthcoming members of the European Union - with the exception of Estonia and Latvia - have corporate tax measures in place which could disrupt the EU's internal market. |
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| 15/07/2003According to reports in the Russian media, during a landmark meeting between Swiss President, Pascal Couchepin (pictured) and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin last week, the Russian President was asked by Couchepin to remove four Swiss cantons from the 'blacklist' of offshore tax havens regularly issued by the Russian Central Bank. |
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| 17/07/2003The tiny Caribbean jurisdiction of St Kitts and Nevis, comprised of two islands and largely governed from the larger St Kitts, may well become two separate nations as a result of growing calls for self determination amongst Nevis's 11,000 inhabitants. |
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| 19/12- Recent reports have revealed that pressure is increasing for Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash (pictured) to reach an agreement with his Greek Cypriot counterpart by the end of February 2003, following the announcement that the Greek Cypriot side will accede to the EU alone if necessary. |
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| 08/07/2003 With the July 11 tax-filing deadline for South African taxpayers fast approaching, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) has warned that rules surrounding the granting of filing extensions have been tightened. |
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| 10/07/2003The European Court of Justice added another brick to its tax harmonisation edifice recently, rejecting the Swedish Government's arguments in favour of pensions taxation rules that discriminate against non-Swedish insurers. |
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| 10/07/2003 Speaking before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, general counsel in the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), John Veroneau suggested that: 'I suspect that if by the end of the session we have not shown serious progress in passing legislation to replace [the tax breaks for foreign sales corporations], I think next January we face a very high likelihood of retaliation.' |
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| 09/07/2003It emerged this week that the UK government is intending to merge the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise offices into the Treasury's Whitehall HQ, following the completion of a review of the tax collection system announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown some days ago. |
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