Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 09-May-2016

China Chinese 'Double Tax' Concerns For Business Travelers The Global Business Travel Association has called for China to ensure that the introduction of value-added tax to the hospitality sector, since May 1, does not significantly increase the tax burden. China, Sri Lanka To Discuss FTA Signing In June Sri Lanka and China will hold high-level discussions in June on the possibility of signing a bilateral free trade agreement, according to a statement by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Industry and Commerce on May 2. UK UK CGT Cut Boosts Confidence A new survey of business leaders by the Institute of Directors has revealed that investment in UK start-ups and growing businesses has become more attractive due to the changes to capital gains tax and Entrepreneurs' Relief announced in the March Budget. HMRC's Counter Avoidance Directorate Collects GBP494m HM Revenue and Customs's Counter Avoidance Directive collected an additional GBP494m (USD717.3m) in UK income tax from investigations into tax avoidance schemes in 2014-15, according to research by international law firm Pinsent Masons. US US Court Dismisses Case Against FATCA Disclosures The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has dismissed a case brought by Senator Rand Paul and a group of individuals, who attempted to make several challenges to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts. US House Democrats Propose Corporate Exit Tax A bill has been introduced by Lloyd Doggett, a senior member of the US House Ways and Means Committee, with the support of 50 other Democrat Representatives, to impose an exit tax on corporations that undertake corporate tax inversions or otherwise renounce their American citizenship. Residence-Based Taxation Put Forward For Americans Abroad With regard to the increasing talk in the US Congress on tax reform, American Citizens Abroad has provided the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee with a full reform proposal for the enactment of residence-based taxation for American expatriates. US Expats Continue To Give Up Passports, Green Cards According to Treasury Department statistics published in the Federal Register, another 1,158 US taxpayers gave up their passports or their green cards in the first quarter of 2016, in line with the 1,058 expatriations in the final quarter of last year. Otros temas Multilateral Tax Convention Effective In Singapore The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters became effective in Singapore on May 1, 2016. Otros temas Canadian Finances Continue To Improve Canadian tax revenues for the April 2015 to February 2016 period were up 6.2 percent, helping the Government to a budgetary surplus of CAD7.5bn (USD5.9bn).