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Byline: TIM CESTNICK TAX MATTERS FCPA, FCA, CPA(IL), CFP, TEP, an author, and co-founder and CEO of Our Family Office Inc. He can be reached at tim@ourfamilyoffice.ca One of my [...]

Byline: BOB WEBER; THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- Alberta's United Conservative government is trying to increase production from the province's declining conventional oil and gas fields at the expense of [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL INVESTOR CLINIC I am currently juggling accounts at six different banks because it is my understanding that each bank provides a maximum of $100,000 of Canada Deposit [...]

For as long as equalization has existed, the provinces have groused about how Ottawa apportions those funds, aimed at ensuring that Canadians enjoy reasonably comparable social services at reasonably comparable [...]

London: UK Government has issued the following news release: Do not include in gross pay for NICs purposes any payment of, or contribution towards, any fee or annual subscription to [...]

Legislative changes (To be effective from the date of enactment of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2024) Amendments under Customs Act: [Clause 100] Section 28 DA is being amended to [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Lok Sabha today passed the Finance Bill, 2024. The Bill gives effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2024- [...]

Byline: JOHN RAPLEY Author and academic who divides his time among London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall (Yale University Press, 2023) and Twilight of the Money [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS; Staff Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland knows hiking taxes would be a mistake. But she's still likely to raise levies on the country's largest companies and wealthiest [...]

Byline: Jim Tankersley The president has courted executives with long listening sessions and sustained outreach, but frustrated many with his tax plans and regulations. In the days before delivering his [...]

Byline: TII News Service Date of decision: 07 May 2024 2024-TII-45-HC-MUM-INTL IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY Writ Petition No. 2234 Of 2022 UPESI VENTURES LTD 9, AGIOS ANDREAS VASILEOS, [...]

Corporate taxes: Overview As part of the 2019 national budget, the government cut the corporate income tax rate from 23% to 22%, with effect from income year 2019. Previously, the [...]

LINCOLN, NE -- The following information was released by the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature: The Revenue Committee advanced bills this session creating an array of tax credits, allowing businesses to deduct [...]

The trust, legal instrument of English origin, is often used as a sustainable estate planning and assets protection tool. Although the trust system is common in Commonwealth countries, Monaco recognized [...]

Corporate taxes: Overview A major reform of the corporate tax system in Belgium in recent years has led to the relatively high headline tax rate falling from 34% in 2017 [...]

Byline: FRANCES BULA VANCOUVER -- Residents of Metro Vancouver's North Shore are absorbing news that a new water filtration plant is more than $3-billion over budget and 10 years behind [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The rise of the TFSA has pretty much killed RRSP season. You can contribute to a registered retirement savings plan in the first 60 days of [...]

Byline: RINO BORTOLIN, DORIAN MOORE, ANNEKE SMIT, JAMES TISCHLER Rino Bortolin is a strategic adviser and project manager at the University of Windsor's Centre for Cities, and a former Windsor [...]

Byline: TIM CESTNICK TAX MATTERS FCPA, FCA, CPA(IL), CFP, TEP, author, and co-founder and CEO of Our Family Office Inc. He can be reached at tim@ourfamilyoffice.ca. Okay, I'll admit that [...]

Corporate taxes: Overview The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is responsible for tax legislation. It assesses and collects taxes and also administers value-added tax (VAT), customs and excise duty, and road [...]

Corporate taxes: Overview Sweden has a relatively low corporate tax rate, at 20.6%, from January 1st 2021, reduced from 21.4%. However, a broad range of other taxes-including high personal taxes, [...]

Washington: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Issues the following Opinion : 186 FERC P 61,135 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION Before Commissioners: Willie L. Phillips, Chairman; Allison Clements [...]

Byline: TII News Service Date of decision: 31 January 2024 2024-TII-42-ITAT-DEL-INTL IN THE INCOME TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL BENCH 'D', NEW DELHI ITA Nos. 8904/Del/2019 & 795/Del/2021 Assessment Years: 2016-17 & [...]

Corporate taxes: Overview The Income Tax Law (17/2000) establishes the tax code for both corporate and personal income taxes. Law 2/2020 amended this law by reducing the corporate income tax [...]

Intellectual property and e-commerce: IPR overview As part of its drive to create a 'smart economy', Ireland continues to enhance its attractiveness as a location for domiciling intellectual property (IP). [...]

On December 28, 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department ('Treasury') and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ('IRS') released Notice 2024-16 (the 'Notice'), announcing their plan to issue proposed regulations addressing the [...]

A REVIEW OF THE 2023 TAX APPEAL TRIBUNAL JUDGMENT IN CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES B. V. NIG LTD v. FIRS 1 BACKGROUND As 2023 winds down, the need for a [...]

On 13 November 2023,the Luxembourg government published amendments to Bill of law no. 8292 implementing EU Council Directive on ensuring a global minimum level of taxation for multinational enterprise groups [...]

Michael Bacina, Steven Pettigrove, and Luke Higgins of the Piper Alderman Blockchain Group bring you the latest legal, regulatory and project updates in Blockchain and Digital Law. The Australian Taxation [...]

Chris Duncan and Katrina Lindsay have authored the British Virgin Islands (BVI) chapter of Global Legal Insight's sixth edition guide to blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation. The chapter covers the BVI [...]

Byline: Megan Swift Sep. 22After 19 months of study, review and public comment, the Greater Latrobe School board is forging ahead with a plan to raise taxes and embark on [...]

Byline: Kellen Stepler Jun. 21Property owners in the Allegheny Valley School District will not see an increase in their taxes for the next year. School directors voted unanimously Tuesday to [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM; Staff More than 150,000 federal public servants - including 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency workers - could go on strike by Wednesday if a deal is not reached [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff A tax court judge's ruling that an investor who was day trading stocks in his tax-free savings account must pay tax on the income opens the [...]

The tax and financial regulatory landscape of non-fungible tokens is rapidly evolving, with the impact of MiCAR on the horizon The emergence of cryptocurrencies (fungible tokens) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) [...]

For my high net worth clients, setting up a private foundation is an exciting process. During that process, few immediately think of unpleasant matters like divorce, disability or death-seismic life [...]

Norway, much like the rest of the world, witnessed a very uncertain M&A and IPO market in 2022 after record levels of activity in 2020 and 2021. Some of this [...]