Jun 4, 2010
A new tax credit has been proposed for organ donations in Canada, in an effort to increase the number of donations made annually and reduce the waiting time for transplant consent. At the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which ran from May 28th to June 4th at Montreal’s Concordia University, Jurgen De [...]
A new tax credit has been proposed for organ donations in Canada, in an effort to increase the number of donations made annually and reduce the waiting time for transplant consent.
At the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which ran from May 28th to June 4th at Montreal's Concordia University, Jurgen De Wispelaere, researcher at Université de Montréal, presented a paper with suggested reforms to the nation’s organ transplant procedures. His proposal includes two primary reform measures. The first involves ... Read More
May 21, 2010
The Government of Germany and the Government of Canada are initiating separate international bank tax campaigns, although, the two nations are pursuing for opposing views. Ahead of the upcoming June G20 Summit in Toronto, Canada, the German and Canadian Governments are increasing efforts in swaying international Governments towards their views on the proposed introduction of [...]
The Government of Germany and the Government of Canada are initiating separate international bank tax campaigns, although, the two nations are pursuing for opposing views.
Ahead of the upcoming June G20 Summit in Toronto, Canada, the German and Canadian Governments are increasing efforts in swaying international Governments towards their views on the proposed introduction of an international bank tax system. At a conference on new financial regulations held in Berlin on May 20th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated "We will campaign for a ... Read More
Mar 19, 2010
The international fight against cross-border tax evasion has taken a step forward with the initiation of a peer review group which aims to assess the progress made by nations in implementing internationally agreed standards of tax transparency. On March 18th the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced the initiation of the first step [...]
The international fight against cross-border tax evasion has taken a step forward with the initiation of a peer review group which aims to assess the progress made by nations in implementing internationally agreed standards of tax transparency.
On March 18th the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced the initiation of the first step in the most extensive and through international tax transparency assesment process that has ever been undertaken. Eighteen nations from the 91 participating members of the Global Forum on ... Read More
Dec 17, 2009
Increasing fiscal transparency was an important issue in the economic and political spectrum of the 2009 year. With only a few weeks remaining in 2009, December happened to be one of the most active month of the passing year, with Governments around the globe completing efforts made in negotiations of Double Taxation Agreements (DTA) and [...]
Increasing fiscal transparency was an important issue in the economic and political spectrum of the 2009 year. With only a few weeks remaining in 2009, December happened to be one of the most active month of the passing year, with Governments around the globe completing efforts made in negotiations of Double Taxation Agreements (DTA) and Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEA).
In an unprecedented step, Switzerland wishes to cease ratification of its DTA with France in protest at the French authorities' handling of account ... Read More
