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21 February 2025

CAYMAN ISLANDS: Changes made as beneficial ownership regime reworked

Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly presented changes to beneficial ownership legislation to parliament when it met for the last time before the elections. While the Beneficial Ownership Transparency

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21 February 2025

ITALY: Google agrees to pay Italy USD 340 million to settle tax evasion investigation

Italian prosecutors on Wednesday said they are seeking to have a tax evasion investigation against Google dropped after the tech giant agreed to pay a 326 million Euro (USD 340 million) settlement.

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21 February 2025

UK: PAC calls out HMRC over £5.5bn tax evasion losses

For the second time in as many months, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised concerns over the work being done by HMRC, highlighting that the tax authority lost £5.5bn to business tax evasion

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21 February 2025

EU: ‘Sensitive’ Information Unclear in New EU Tax Transparency Rules

The European Commission has published the implementing regulation on public country-by-country reporting, providing the final common template and electronic reporting formats—jointly referred to as

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21 February 2025

EU: Inside Roman Abramovich’s superyacht-rental tax scam

As published on: thebureauinvestigates.com, Friday 21 February, 2025. Superyachts are expensive – really expensive. They cost a fortune to design, even more to build, and after that you still need

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21 February 2025

EU: EU official meets with Trump counterparts to resolve tariff threats

Hoping to head off a potential trade conflict, a top European Union official stressed the importance of active engagement and fairness in trade during a four-hour meeting with Trump administration officials.

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21 February 2025

LUXEMBOURG: Restricted access to the Register of Beneficial Owners — a shift toward confidentiality

On 27 January 2025, the law deriving from draft Bill No. 7961 (“Law“) introducing significant changes to the laws governing the Register of Beneficial Owners (Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs

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21 February 2025

EU: EU Keeps Panama And Ten Other Countries On Its List Of Tax Havens

The European Union countries approved on Tuesday to keep Panama, Russia and nine other jurisdictions on their blacklist of tax havens after finding that they continue not to cooperate in this matter

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21 February 2025

EU: European Parliament approves VAT and reporting reforms

The European Parliament has approved reforms to the EU’s value-added tax (VAT) system, marking a key procedural step toward the formal adoption of the VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) package. Lawmakers

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21 February 2025

US: Trump moves to tighten control over independent US regulators

DONALD Trump has signed an executive order increasing White House oversight of independent federal agencies, including key financial regulators. The order, signed Tuesday, requires agencies to submit

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