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Sri Lanka president sacks chief justice Bandaranayake
13 January 2013 Sri Lanka’s president has dismissed Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake by ratifying parliament’s recent vote to impeach her, officials say. They say the letter signed by President Mahinda…
Hyundai and Kia appoint Schreyer to group design role
13 January 2013 Kia’s design boss Peter Schreyer has been named as the new chief designer for the wider Hyundai Motor Group. Mr Schreyer, who previously worked for…
Beat the pension squeeze
13 January 2013 MIDDLE-CLASS workers could be thousands of pounds worse off in retirement following moves by the chancellor to scale back the benefits of saving into a pension.…
The Untaxables
13 January 2013 Outside the city hall in downtown Olympia, a crowd had gathered to vent its anger. The capital of Washington, the northwest American state which is home to…
IT companies accused of underpaying tax by £800m
13 January 2013 IBM, Microsoft and other companies with lucrative government contracts pay little or no corporation tax, a Conservative MP said yesterday. Charlie Elphicke, MP for Dover and…
Irish outlook
13 January 2013 I n six months’ time the collection of the new property tax commences in earnest. It will be a remarkable development. Every dwelling in the country including…
HMRC consultants pay only 3.5% tax
13 January 2013 ONE of the world’s biggest consultancy firms, which also works for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has avoided paying tens of millions of pounds in corporation tax.…
Darragh Kilbride: Tax incentives would boost SMEs
13 January 2013 THERE is ample evidence that tax policy shapes behaviour. When taxes rise, consumer spending falls. When there are tax incentives to invest in business, taxpayers choose to…
Taxman pursues Google as Osborne cracks down
13 January 2013 Google is facing the prospect of a multimillion-pound tax bill after HM Revenue & Customs opened a review into the internet company’s tax returns for the past…
Business, taxation and moral obligations
13 January 2013 Payment of tax is not a matter of ethics, it is a matter of law, compliance with which is the duty of a board of directors Sir,…
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