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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi is in hot water with the justice system again after mocking the community service he has been ordered to do for tax fraud, media reports said.

• 30 апреля 2014, 14:00

This measure will help us bring a big share of business out of shadow, bringing us closer to the transparency level reached in developed economies: President Nazarbayev.

• 12 апреля 2014, 14:22

Italian prosecutors on Thursday approved a request by Silvio Berlusconi's lawyers for the three-time prime minister to do community service rather than face house arrest following a tax fraud conviction.

• 11 апреля 2014, 13:08

Prices rose across Japan Tuesday as a controversial sales tax rise came into effect, with everything from beer to washing machines costing more, sparking fears a drop in consumer spending will derail a nascent economic recovery.

• 01 апреля 2014, 20:18

Bitcoin is not a currency but transactions involving it should be "subject to taxation", Japan's government said Friday, in a move that could pave the way for formal regulations on the troubled virtual unit.

• 08 марта 2014, 12:00

US tech giant Apple was Thursday accused of shifting nearly Aus$9 billion (US$8.1 billion) in untaxed profits from its Australian operations to Ireland over the past decade.

• 06 марта 2014, 13:51

US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew described taxation reform as among the G20's most crucial initiatives Friday as the world's major economies look to close loopholes used by huge multinational firms.

• 21 февраля 2014, 10:33

China can prevent nearly 13 million tobacco-related deaths by 2050 by fully implementing a set of neglected anti-smoking policies it had already agreed to.

• 19 февраля 2014, 11:16

InterContinental Hotels Group, the world's largest hotel operator by number of rooms, said on Tuesday that annual net profit plunged owing to increased tax charges.

• 18 февраля 2014, 16:16

Earlier the country’s Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov announced plans to increase floor prices for alcoholic beverages three times by 2016.

• 05 февраля 2014, 12:15

Relatives of top Chinese leaders including President Xi Jinping and former premier Wen Jiabao have used offshore tax havens to hide their wealth.

• 23 января 2014, 09:55

President Francois Hollande has backed attempts to ban controversial French comedian Dieudonne as a furore intensified over his sketches that have been widely condemned as anti-Semitic.

• 08 января 2014, 18:30

France's top court Sunday approved a proposal for companies to pay 75 percent tax on annual salaries exceeding one million euros in line with President Francois Hollande's drive to limit executive pay at a time of economic hardship.

• 30 декабря 2013, 14:03

Japan approved its biggest ever budget Tuesday, as an improving economy and a sales tax hike made room for more defence spending and the first step towards achieving a balanced budget.

• 25 декабря 2013, 11:08

The United States has signed anti-tax fraud pacts with six countries and territories including some considered tax havens, the US Treasury Department said Thursday.

• 20 декабря 2013, 15:32

Former Chilean president and socialist champion Michelle Bachelet, who has proposed tax reforms and a new constitution for her country, is expected to unseat conservatives Sunday in a runoff election.

• 13 декабря 2013, 17:00

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia faces a tax bill of more than 210 billion rupees ($3.4 billion) in India from liabilities arising out of unpaid charges and penalties since 2006, a report said Tuesday.

• 10 декабря 2013, 17:15

Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, has signed the bill raising taxes.

• 06 декабря 2013, 14:51

Japan Tobacco (JT) and Philip Morris will each buy a 20 percent stake in Russian distributor Megapolis for a total of more than $1.5 billion, as the rivals move to tap the world's second-biggest cigarette market.

• 05 декабря 2013, 10:47

Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev has signed the law ratifying the Convention between Kazakhstan and Luxembourg to Avoid Double Taxation.

• 11 ноября 2013, 23:10