Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 18-Abr-2016

Canada Think Tank Recommends Improvements To CRA Audits The Canada Revenue Agency should make improvements to its auditing process and measure its performance, the C D Howe Institute has recommended. EU EU Publishes New VAT Action Plan The European Commission has released an Action Plan on VAT, setting out plans for the next two years to modernize European Union value-added tax rules. EU To Require Greater Tax Disclosure By Multinationals The European Commission has announced plans to require multinationals with global revenues exceeding EUR750m (USD847.9m) a year to publicize details of their tax affairs on a country-by-country basis. Five EU Countries Agree To Share Beneficial Ownership Data France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK have agreed to exchange data held on beneficial ownership registers and registers of trusts. Japan OECD Recommends More Japanese Sales Tax Hikes The 2016 report on Japan from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development has stressed the urgency of tackling the country's level of public debt, and suggested higher rates of consumption tax than the Government currently plans. UK UK Watchdog Criticizes Plans For Quarterly Business Updates The UK's Administrative Burdens Advisory Board has said that it cannot endorse the Government's proposals to require businesses to provide quarterly online updates and institute compulsory digital record keeping. UK Banks Told To Report On Panama Papers Links The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has written to 20 financial firms asking them to check whether they have links to Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm from which 11.5 million documents were leaked this week. UK Launches Taskforce To Analyze 'Panama Papers' UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the launch of a new task force "to deal with any wrongdoing relating to the Panama papers." IoM To Enhance BO Info Exchange With UK The Isle of Man Government has committed to enhancing the effectiveness of arrangements to share "beneficial ownership" information with the United Kingdom. US US Tax Reform, Not Regulations, To Counter Inversions: Coalition A coalition of 14 organizations, including Americans for Tax Reform and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, have written to the US Treasury Department warning that its new anti-inversion regulations "will do nothing to fix the underlying American competitiveness problem and will only further complicate the broken US tax system." IRS Offers New Cash Tax Payment Option The Internal Revenue Service has announced the availability of a new payment option for individual US taxpayers who need to pay their taxes with cash. US Senate Pushes IRS To Improve Taxpayer Cybersecurity At an April 12 hearing, US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, its Ranking Member Ron Wyden, and other witnesses, criticized the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to protect taxpayer information from cyberthieves. Filling US Tax Returns This Year To Take 8.9bn Hours The American Action Forum has pointed out that, by the April 18 deadline, US individuals and pass-through businesses, whose profits are passed directly to their owners, will have spent a record amount of time and resources in submitting their tax returns, according to the Administration's own estimates. Bipartisan US Tariff Cut Bill Introduced A bipartisan bill, the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016, has been introduced to create an "open and transparent process" for the US House of Representatives to consider import tariff cuts for manufacturers through a renewal of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill. Two-Thirds Of US Corporations Pay No Federal Income Tax Asked by Congress to assess the extent to which US corporations pay federal income tax, the US Government Accountability Office found that, in each year from 2006 to 2012, at least two-thirds of all active corporations had no corporate tax liability.