Los impuestos en el mundo. Actualización al 19-Nov-2012

Canada Canada, India Sign Social Security Agreement Canada and India have signed a Social Security Agreement to better coordinate the benefits and contributions of workers who have been employed in both countries. Canadian Parliament Backs Panama FTA Canada's Minister for International Trade, Ed Fast, has confirmed that the Canadian House of Commons has approved a law that would bring a new free trade agreement between Canada and Panama into force. China China To Improve QFII And RQFII Programmes The China Securities Regulatory Commission has disclosed that it intends to improve both the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor and Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor programmes, to attract more long-term investment into the Chinese capital markets, both directly and through Hong Kong. EU EU 'Stops The Clock' On ETS The European Union's (EU) Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard, has announced a landmark decision to defer the international aspects of the Emissions Trading Scheme for aviation for one year to allow the International Civil Aviation Organization to develop globally-agreed market-based mechanism to tax the emissions of the aviation sector. US Congress Forbids Airlines To Comply With Future EU ETS Despite the decision taken by the European Union to defer the international aspects of its emissions trading scheme for aviation for one year, Congress has completed its approval of a bipartisan bill to ban United States airlines from complying with the scheme at any time in the future. UK UK, UAE Trade Boost Expected Plans to boost trade between the UK and the United Arab Emirates to GBP12bn by 2015 are on track, according to the UK-UAE Business Council. UK Deficit Reduction Plans In Tatters, Report Claims The UK government will need to implement GBP48bn (USD76bn) in additional spending cuts or tax rises if it hopes to get deficit reduction plans back on track, new analysis has claimed. UK Real Time Reporting 'Impossible', Accountants Say HM Revenue and Customs's plans to introduce real time pay-as-you-earn reporting are at best unrealistic and at worst impossible, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has warned. US US Talking To More Than 50 Countries On FATCA The United States Department of the Treasury has disclosed that it is engaged with more than 50 countries and jurisdictions around the world to implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions arising out of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. US Financial Sector Against National, Regional Or Global FTTs Financial and business groups have written a letter to United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressing concern that the movement in the European Union to set up a financial transactions tax will spread to the United States. Carbon Tax Being Pushed As Part Of US Tax Reforms With global warming having been resurrected as a political topic of conversation after Hurricane Sandy, both the Brookings Institution and the Congressional Budget Office have issued papers on how a United States federal carbon tax could be structured, and how such a tax might fit into future deficit-reducing tax reforms. AMT Would Hit 60m US Taxpayers Without Patch For 2012 A letter from Steven Miller, the Acting Commissioner of the United States Internal Revenue Service to the House Of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (pictured) has disclosed that, if Congress fails to extend the traditional Alternative Minimum Tax patch, approximately 60m taxpayers could be affected. Otros temas Switzerland, Greece To Conclude Swift Tax Deal Following consultation with the relevant parliamentary committees, the Swiss Federal Council has adopted the mandate for negotiations on a withholding tax agreement with Greece. Otros temas Philippines Issues Definitive Tax Rules On Interest Income In Revenue Regulations No. 14-2012, the Philippines Bureau of Internal Revenue has clarified the withholding tax treatment of interest income received from financial instruments, which harks back to last year’s controversy on the redemption of the government's Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates bonds.