Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 07-May-2012

Canada Canada Legislates For Measures To Boost Business Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has introduced legislation to implement key elements of his 2012 Budget designed to improve conditions for business investment. Canada Highlights Trade Support For Manufacturing Speaking at a manufacturing summit in Ontario, Canada’s Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty has highlighted the government’s contributions to helping build a strong domestic manufacturing sector through investment incentives and reduced trade tariffs. New Zealand, Canada Sign DTA On May 3, New Zealand’s Revenue Minister, Peter Dunne, and the Canadian Minister of International Trade, Ed Fast, signed an updated double tax agreement to replace their countries’ 1980 bilateral treaty. China South Korea, China To Start FTA Talks The Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming and South Korea’s Trade Minister Park Tae-ho have announced, after a meeting in Beijing on May 2, the official launch of negotiations for a China-South Korea free trade agreement. China Introduces CorporateTax Breaks For IT To encourage innovation in information technology and industrial technical upgrading, China’s State Administration of Taxation has announced preferential corporate income taxes for producers of software and integrated circuits. EU ASEAN, EU Confirm Importance Of FTA Talks When the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and European Union held a meeting in Brunei on April 27, emphasis was laid on the on-going negotiation of free trade agreements between the two regions. UK HMRC Warned Of RTI Impact On Small Firms The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group has said that the UK tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs, has underestimated the impact of Real Time Information on small employers. HMRC Will Not Appeal Stamp Duty Ruling The UK tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs, will no longer seek to impose Stamp Duty Reserve Tax on the issue of shares to depositary receipt issuers and clearance services outside the European Union following a recent legal ruling. Swiss Left Seeks To Delay Debate On Tax Deals Switzerland’s Social Democrats have threatened to block in parliament the landmark withholding tax agreements concluded recently with Germany, the UK and Austria, if the treaties are not in accordance with the party line. HMRC Apologises For Self-Assessment Penalty Error The UK tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs, has apologised to taxpayers following the dispatch of incorrect penalty notices to individuals supposed to have been removed from its Self Assessment program. HMRC Increases Use Of Asset Seizure Powers The UK tax authority, HM Revenue and Customs is increasingly using its powers to seize businesses assets in order to recover unpaid value-added tax bills, new statistics show. US Kirk Explains US Asia-Pacific Trade Policy In remarks at Singapore Management University, the United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk described the Administration’s broad trade policy in the Asia-Pacific region as using the Trans-Pacific Partnership to make further progress with its trading partners around the Pacific Rim. Ireland, US In Talks Over FATCA Ireland and the United States are in talks to establish a common approach to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, drawing on domestic and international tax legislation and treaties. US Business Pushes For US-Egypt FTA The United States-Egypt Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce has held meetings with senior members of Congress to push for commencement of negotiations on a US-Egypt free trade agreement. Barbados Targets US Investors Barbados's Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has highlighted the advantages of doing business in the territory for United States investors as the US Chamber of Commerce prepares to launch an office in the country this year. Report Shows Incentives For US Companies To Drop Health Cover In a new report prepared for the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, data from United States Fortune 100 companies show that they could save significant amounts under the new health care law by simply terminating health insurance for their workers and putting those employees into taxpayer-funded health care exchanges. Otros temas Dutch PM Confirms Bank Tax Rise The caretaker Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte has confirmed that the country's proposed bank tax will be increased as part of the government's latest budget agreement, designed to reduce the deficit to 3% of gross domestic product next year.