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29 November 2024

EU: Auditors admonish ‘loopholes’ in EU’s €100bn corporate tax avoidance fight

Brussels recently scored a win when judges ruled Apple should reimburse €13bn in underpaid taxes – but a high-profile tax havens blacklist is undermined by weak sanctions, and warnings of cross-border

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29 November 2024

US: Supreme Court Turns Back Stealth Attack On Wealth Tax

The Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on June 20 rejecting a sweeping constitutional argument that a wealthy Washington state couple brought before them that was viewed as a stalking horse aimed

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29 November 2024

EU: EU Ends State Aid Probes Into Fiat, Amazon, Starbucks

The European Commission has closed three in-depth State aid investigations into transfer pricing tax rulings granted by Luxembourg to Fiat and Amazon, and by the Netherlands to Starbucks. Following

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29 November 2024

EU: Italy’s Bruna Szego picked as chair of EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority

BRUSSELS, 26th November, 2024 (WAM) — Italy’s Bruna Szego was chosen as the chair of the European Union’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) on Monday following a three-hour

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29 November 2024

CAYMAN ISLANDS: Cayman moves toward more beneficial owner access

The Cayman Islands Government is moving towards expanding who can access beneficial ownership information about financial entities registered here, beyond law enforcement agencies. Cabinet is expected

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29 November 2024

CLIMATE FINANCE: COP29 closes with a climate finance deal, but at what cost?

After two weeks of intense negotiations, COP29 formally closed at 5:31 am AZT, Sunday 24 November 2024. Almost 200 countries and over 90 national leaders gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, to assess progress

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29 November 2024

GREECE: Gov’t boosting massive investment program and tax reductions from surplus revenues fighting tax evasion

The positive circumstances for the massive investment program funded by the Recovery Fund and NSRF, as well as from the significant rise in revenues due to the curtailment of tax evasion, create conditions

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29 November 2024

US: Trump’s Crypto Plans Raise Alarms Over Conflicts of Interest

President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of cryptocurrency and blockchain is raising concerns that so-called “blockchain billionaires” could gain direct influence over the White House

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29 November 2024

UN: United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to begin historic, global tax overhaul

A historic vote at the UN General Assembly today saw countries decide overwhelmingly to begin the formal negotiation of a UN framework convention on international tax cooperation. Over the next two

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25 November 2024

CAREY OLSEN: Carey Olsen lawyers recognised in IFLR1000 2024 Caribbean rankings

Press Release from Carey Olsen, Friday 29 November, 2024. Lawyers from across Carey Olsen’s Bermuda, British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands practices have been recognised in the 2024

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