Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's Cabinet, responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, mainly concerning the corporate tax burden and prevention of urban flooding.
A couple of weeks ago, Chinese auto-glass tycoon Cao Dewang sparked a heated discussion across China. Cao said his recent $600 million investment to establish a manufacturing branch in the United States for his company, Fuyao Glass Industry Group, was driven largely by China's high taxes, which he claimed are 35 percent higher for manufacturers in China than in the US.
Only 1.5 percent of millions of corporate taxpayers face a higher tax burden after implementing value-added tax reform, senior officials with the nation's top taxation bureau said on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's crackdown on the cash economy has shattered the consensus needed for a new national sales tax, plunging his boldest reform into limbo and threatening to entrench an economic slowdown.
New figures published by City of London Corporation Tuesday shows the total tax contribution from Britain's financial services sector reached 71.4 billion pounds (90.54 billion U.S. dollars) in the year to March 31, 2016.
People who travel to the country and opt for seasonal, temporary or migrant work will be taxed at a 15 percent rate, settling an 18-month debate.
Ireland's government will this week formally submit its appeal against the European Commission's multi-billion-euro demand for back taxes from Apple, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said on Tuesday.
The Australian government has bowed to industry pressure for it to set a lower "backpacker tax," after widespread complaints that a proposed 32.5 percent rate would only send backpackers out of Australia to other nations such as New Zealand.
A multi-billion euro back tax bill handed to Apple by the European Commission should not be seen as a precedent for future tax cases as it was based on state aid rather than tax law, the OECD official spearheading global tax reform said on Monday.
French tax authorities have asked Switzerland to hand over client information for some 45,000 bank accounts as part of a probe into alleged tax fraud, Le Parisien daily said Monday.
Indonesia plans to pursue Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than $400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided payments, a senior tax official said.
Indonesia has been making efforts to collect tax from internet-based firms which have reaped huge amount of advertisement funds from their online operation in the country following rejection of the United States-based searching engine giant Google from being examined by Indonesian tax office.
Other multinationals that do not employ as extreme Irish tax schemes as Apple Inc but shift profits via the country to tax havens could also be breaching EU rules, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday.
The huge back-tax bill European authorities slapped on Apple has put a spotlight on $2.4 trillion in untaxed earnings parked offshore by US companies, a tempting target for governments seeking to strengthen their finances.
The European Union is expected to order Apple on Tuesday to pay billions of euros in back taxes in Ireland in one of its largest such cases after ruling that sweetheart tax deals for the US tech giant were illegal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday promised to ease the rules for middle-class taxpayers, while taking credit for this government removing various hurdles such as those related to refunds.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday outlined the details of what he called "America First" economic plan to rebuild momentum of his campaign, as protesters repeatedly interrupted him.
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