Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 16-May-2011

Canada Business Urges Canada To Pass Budget Having secured Canada's first majority administration in seven years, Stephen Harper's immediate priority must be the re-introduction of the postponed 2011-12 Budget, according to an open letter from a key Canadian business group. Conservatives Set To Reintroduce Canadian Budget Canada looks set for a June Budget, which Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says will remain largely the same as the one introduced last March, albeit with some economic updates. EU CARICOM To Hold Talks On EU Trade Deal During an important upcoming round of talks, members of the Caribbean Community are to discuss the implementation of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement, which aims at establishing a trade relationship which promotes the gradual integration of the CARIFORUM countries into the world economy. EU FTA With Japan Gets Merkel's Backing Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has pronounced that she is in favour of the commencement of free trade agreement negotiations between the European Union and Japan. UK Centrica Count Costs Of UK Tax Hike Energy giant Centrica has released its first interim report of 2011, counting the costs of increased tax rates on UK oil and gas production, which it is expected will offset the benefit of higher prices. IoM Taxpayers Alerted To UK Insurance Premium Tax The Isle of Man government has clarified aspects of the UK's Insurance Premium Tax regime, paid by taxpayers in the Isle of Man on general insurance policies where the risk is located in the UK, and has warned taxpayers to be cognizant as to whether they are in fact exempt. UK Launches Five Year Business Strategy The UK has launched a new five year trade and investment strategy, designed to champion UK business overseas and attract investors to the country, ensuring economic competitiveness and leading to balanced growth. UK Pensioners Warned Over Tax Code Problems Recently pensionable taxpayers in the UK are at risk of pay as you earn tax code problems, according to chartered accountancy firm Midgley Snelling. Osborne Staying Course On UK Tax Reform With an unequivocally pro-business government striving to create the most competitive tax system in the G20, the UK is becoming a place for international business to flock, according to Chancellor George Osborne. HMRC Targets UK Restaurant Trade The UK's revenue agency has in its hands the power of a new task force, with specialist teams to undertake what the government calls intensive bursts of compliance activity in specific high risk trade sectors and locations throughout the country. US Switzerland Eyes Withholding Tax With US According to Switzerland’s Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, a withholding tax would be the 'right instrument' to resolve remaining tax issues with the US. Recession Shrinks US Tax Burden A recent report has suggested that the tax burden on US taxpayers is at its lowest level in over fifty years, although commentators argue that this has as much to do with a shrinking US economy as with shrinking rates of tax. US Corporate Repatriated Profits Tax Holiday Bill Introduced Several United States Congressmen, from both the Republican and Democrat parties, have introduced into the House of Representatives the Freedom to Invest Act of 2011 which, by temporarily lowering tax barriers, looks to encourage American companies with profits overseas to bring them back to the US for investment. US Senate Examines 'Big Oil' Tax Breaks The United States Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing on May 12 on whether the country’s existing oil and gas corporate tax incentives should be continued, while companies cash in on high oil prices and while the federal deficit remains under pressure. US Senate Takes Up Colombia FTA US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus kicked off Senate consideration of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement on May 11, touting the USD2.5bn boost to the US economy that the implementation of the agreement will bring and the significant progress on labor rights made by Colombia. Otros temas Case Made For HST In British Columbia Ahead of a make or break referendum on the future of harmonised sales tax in British Columbia, a potentially influential report, designed to provide electors with useful information, has argued that, despite the public anger the tax has generated, it in fact represents a long-term boon for the Canadian province's economy.