Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 27-May-2013

Canada Canada Promotes Benefits Of Indian Economic Deal A comprehensive economic partnership agreement between Canada and India would "lead to new opportunities and new sources of prosperity in both countries," Canada's International Trade Minister has said. China China Reacts To EU Mobile Telecom Probe At a press conference, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman, Shen Danyang, has expressed indignation at the prospective European Union anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imports of mobile telecommunications network equipment from China. US US Senate Releases Paper On Housing Tax Reform Options The Senate Finance Committee has released its sixth paper, on "Economic and Community Development," which includes housing and mortgage tax incentives, in a series compiling tax reform options that the Committee's members may wish to consider as they work towards reforming the United States tax system. US Again Leads Global Fund Investor Experience Ranking Morningstar, Inc. has released its 2013 Global Fund Investor Experience report, which evaluates investor-friendly practices in fund markets across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and in which the United States is again assessed as the best market for fund investors based on criteria such as investor protection, transparency, fees, taxation and investment distribution. AfDB To Help African Countries Exploit US AGOA The African Development Bank has announced plans to help diversify African exports to the United States through the better utilization of African Growth and Opportunity Act preferences by its beneficiary countries. Switzerland, US On Brink Of Banking Secrecy Deal Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf has confirmed that the Confederation is close to brokering a deal with the US, aimed at resolving the longstanding tax dispute between the two countries, and finding an "acceptable" solution to deal with the issue of US taxpayers' undeclared income already held in Swiss banks. Study Says US Companies Pay 25% Tax Rate Abroad At a time when international tax payments by companies are in the headlines, particularly after the recent exchanges between the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations and Apple's management, the Tax Foundation has analyzed that, according to Internal Revenue Service data, United States multinational corporations paid an average effective rate of 25 percent in foreign income taxes in 2009. Otros temas OECD Approves Changes To Transfer Pricing Guidelines The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is to release new guidance on safe harbours after its Council approved revisions to Transfer Pricing Guidelines. Otros temas India Explains Withholding Tax Rationalization Plans Changes to the Indian withholding tax regime will encourage greater foreign investment in the country's debt securities and aid the development of the debt market, the Finance Ministry has claimed.