Ireland's 12.5 percent corporate tax rate remains and will remain a cornerstone of the country's industrial policy, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Thursday.
Japan's industrial production dropped a seasonally adjusted 1.5 percent in August from a month earlier, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) said in a preliminary report Tuesday.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the country's central bank, should take moves to soften potential negative impacts of the government's planned next round of sales tax hike, a senior official of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged Monday.
The cooling of China's property market is likely to encourage authorities to speed up property tax reforms, which many believe will play a key role in putting the sector back on track.
Singapore's parliament passed an amendment to the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes Act on Monday to raise the maximum jail term for money laundering.
China has set a clear timetable to build a modern fiscal system that will help optimize resource allocation, unify market standards, and boost social justice, the country's finance minister has said.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called on his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's tax panel Tuesday to compile a fixed proposal of the details of a corporate tax cut plan as part of the government's bid to overhaul its economic and fiscal policies to be ratified this month.
Chinese officials said on Tuesday that more efforts by the government are under way to revitalize the country's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in boosting economic growth.
The New Zealand government is to spend an extra 132 million NZ dollars (113.85 million U.S. dollars) over the next five years on chasing up tax evaders, and two thirds of it will be used to write off unpaid taxes, Revenue Minister Todd McClay said Monday.
Switzerland's adoption of the declaration on the new automatic exchange of information (AEOI) standard in tax matters signaled its commitment to global crackdown on tax fraud and as well as its concession in nearly-a-century-long tradition of bank secrecy and a consent to reveal clients account information to a third party under the domain of the new standard.
Hong Kong received 243.5 billion HK dollars in tax revenue in 2013-14, setting another record high after the 2012-13 collection year, according to Inland Revenue Department of the city government.
China is to replace turnover tax with value-added tax (VAT) in the telecom sector, following similar changes in transport and some service sectors.
Indonesia's anti-graft agency declared suspect status against the outgoing chief of Indonesian State Auditing Agency (BPK) Hadi Poernomo shortly after he retired from his post for his involvement in graft case that cost the state some 375 billion rupiah (about 32.4 million U.S. dollars).
China will extend a tax rebate policy for digital cable TV for another three years, according to a policy package to support cultural industries released by the Ministry of Culture (MOC) on Wednesday.
China on Wednesday announced a string of financial and tax moves including cutting the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for some rural financial institutions to provide more support for the rural economy and bolster job creation.
"When will the property tax come out and how will it impact the market?", "Are we going to see the economy and real estate market crash?", "What are the prospects for developing elderly care properties?"
Japan's economy continues to recover at a moderate pace ahead of the consumption tax hike from April, the Japanese government said Monday in its monthly economic report for March.
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