Сергей Панов, Author at Finance Business Service

In the USA propose tax credit for housebuyers

Published: Sergey Panov | 19/07/2016 | news

The main member of financial committee of The USA Rone Wyden introduced an act of returning tax credit which must help to people who buys a new house. According to his propose the first buyer of living residential property will get returning tax credit around USD10,000 and it will be equal to 2.5 percent in the cost of the whole house. This credit will also increasing step by step for private individual who has a year profit more than USD80,000 and for marriage couples with year profit more than USD160,000. But if buyer sold his house within 5 years he must paying a part of credit if has no some important reasons as work replacing or military mobilization. "The housing policy in our country need a reconstruction, said Wyden. We have a lot of people who work hard to provide for a family and can't permit themselves to rent all the more so buy some house. The federal government need to do more to repair housing crisis on all stages with close co-working of state and city governments." He said that this program created after existing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit because of low profit of people. Another words this program of federal government provide of...

Deoffshorization

Published: Sergey Panov | 18/07/2016 |

In itself, the concept of deoffshorization emerged relatively recently and it was first suggested by Alexander Sergeyevich Zakharov, the famous Russian expert in the field of tax law, 22 May of 2013. Under the "deoffshorization" term decided to take a process consisting of a set of measures, which holds a State legislative, information and law enforcement areas to reduce or eliminate the residents under the guise of foreign persons or using foreign legal constitution, which are involved in the national economic turnover, and primarily pursues illegal or dishonest purpose. Globally deoffshorization occurred against the backdrop of Offshore Leaks project that presented the Consortium together with the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) Journalistic Investigations (ICIJ) in 2013. This project has caused a huge scandal in the public and put the confidentiality of offshore companies Region registered before 2010. Journalists have never previously worked with such a huge volume of data leakage. Studies have shown a rare example of how a global industry together with law firms and various companies and the largest, global banks secretly manage the assets of the rich and famous...

Parliament of Holland approves gambling tax

Published: Sergey Panov | 18/07/2016 | news

The lower house of Dutch parliament approved rule, which can regulate and provide online gambling taxation. Remote Gambling Bill has plan to open Dutch gambling market for foreign outer gambling companies which provide taxation about 29 percent of gamble gross revenue, the same way of taxation have had already gamble land-based operators. According to previous version of draft law, tax for online gambling fixed about 20 percent. The acting coalition included remark to legislation in the beginning of this year for agreement this tax. Nevertheless, the final version of this law approved by the law house 7 July contains measure of decreasing about 25 percent at the end of three years period. In this proposing for the first time was planned to go into force this rule in 2015, but now they were waiting for voting in the Senate. In case of approving by upper house, expect that the process of application submission a new license for gambling in the first half of the next year, and that this new regime will fully up in the middle of 2017 year. Author: Olena Kutova senior lawyer of the Finance Business Service company ...

UK revises VAT rules covering insured goods

Published: Sergey Panov | 15/07/2016 | news

The UK Government has tabled the Value Added Tax (place of supply of services: exceptions relating to supplies made to relevant business person) order 2016, which will take effect for supplies on or after October 1, 2016. The change affects repair services following insurance claims which meet the following criteria: the supply is pursuant to a claim made under a contract of insurance, and the supply is made to a relevant business person who is not the person insured. In such circumstances, instead of being taxed in the UK, if the services are effectively used and enjoyed outside the EU, the supply is to be treated as made where it is used and enjoyed. Equally, where a supply of such services would typically be treated as made outside the EU, if the services are effectively used and enjoyed in the UK they will be subject to UK VAT. The change applies in the case of a supply of services consisting of the repair of tangible movable property (such as cars or mobile telephones) where the supply is made in pursuance of a contract of insurance and is made, for example, to the insurer rather than to the insured person. Author: Sergey Panovmanaging partner Finance...

EC applies the Panama Papers Inquiry

Published: Sergey Panov | 14/07/2016 | news

The European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance, and Tax Evasion (PANA) has announced the appointment of its chair and four vice chairs. The constitutive meeting of PANA took place on July 12, 2016. Wenrer Langen was elected chair, with Ana Gomes, Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner, Fabio de Masi, and Eva Joly to serve as first to fourth vice chairs, respectively. The Committee consists of 65 members, excluding the chair and vice chairs. It will investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of European Union law with respect to money laundering, tax avoidance, and tax evasion by the European Commission or member states. Its establishment was prompted by the leak of the so-called Panama Papers, the leak of more than 11.5m documents belonging to law firm Mossack Fonseca. The data leaked relates to the ownership of bank accounts and companies in 21 offshore jurisdictions, and covers a nearly 40-year period, through to the end of 2015. The Committee is required to submit its final report by June 8, 2017, when its mandate from the European Parliament will expire. Author: Olena Kutova senior...

Politicians of EU call for MNE tax transparency

Published: Sergey Panov | 13/07/2016 | news

Senior members of national parliaments in Europe have called for greater public transparency on taxes paid by multinational corporations. In an open letter addressed to their respective governments, the lawmakers have called for multinationals to make public, for each tax jurisdiction in which they do business, their revenue, profit before income tax, income paid and accrued, total employment levels, capital, retained earnings, and tangible assets. The letter states: "The base erosion and profit shifting project and the EU Commission country-by-country reporting initiative will lay the foundations of a modern international tax framework under which profits are taxes where economic activity and value creation occur. But we want to enable the citizen to have access to this information. We would also expect companies to identify each entity in the group that is doing business in a particular tax jurisdiction and to provide an indication of the business activities in a selection of broad areas that each entity is engaged in." "We want to see this information published so that our citizens can see for themselves what tax multinationals pay so that not only will our...

Consumption tax in the US reduced

Published: Sergey Panov | 12/07/2016 | news

In a latest document from the Tax Foundation (TF), it was noted that, the largest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is more inclined to the proceeds from the consumption tax, the United States prefer more personal income tax, while at the raising relatively is differb a little from the consumption tax. TF said that "this difference of political issues, given that consumption taxes raise revenue with less economic damage than individual income taxes" According to the recent data for 2013, consumption taxes were the largest source of tax revenue for the OECD countries, increasing by an average of 32.7 percent of their tax revenues. However, taxes on consumption rose by only 17.4 per cent of revenue for the United States, mainly because the United States is the only OECD country without value-added tax (VAT). Instead, most governments states in the US use the retail sales tax on the final sale of most goods and excise taxes on the production of goods such as cigarettes and alcohol. The United States instead relies heavily on individual income tax, accounting for 38.7 percent of total government revenue in 2013, compared with the OECD...

New Zealand propose to improve invest tax

Published: Sergey Panov | 11/07/2016 | news

The government of New Zealand release 7 July 2016 discussion document contain proposals aiming for improving administrative invest tax. These proposals can make easy a year process for taxpayers and increase in the system at the same time, Revenue Minister Michael Woodhouse said. "Payers of interest, dividends, and taxable Maori authority distributions currently provide tax certificates to the recipients of the income. Need to gather all of this certificates from it different income sources to meet their end of year tax obligations." Woodhouse said. It would be better for income to collect that entire information collect that information direct from the payers and use it to pre-populate the recipients' tax records." To get this target the discussion document proposes that: All investment income payers will provide this information to the Internal Revenue often. The deadline for feedback on the proposals on 19 August 2016. Author: Sergey Panovmanaging partner Finance Business...

EU anti-tax evasion

Published: Sergey Panov | 08/07/2016 | news

MEPs supported the introduction of a package of measures to combat tax evasion, which include tax havens, the black list of sanctions against "uncooperative jurisdictions", and income tax throughout the EU. Recommendations have been prepared by a special parliamentary committee of tax regulations were adopted 514 votes to 68 with 125 abstentions. The committee's report in favor of the following: - Total "Black list" of non-constructive EU jurisdictions, as the European Commission's proposal with the general definitions unconstructive jurisdictions, and also the provision of extension for a dialogue with jurisdictions for inclusion in the list; - Sanctions against uncooperative jurisdictions, including the ability to revise and suspend of a free trade agreement and deny access to EU funds; - Sanctions for companies, banks, office and law firms, tax advisors testing to include them in illegal, harmful or illegal actions with proximity jurisdictions; - Sanctions for management companies involved in tax avoidance or authority to revoke the license for the business if the experts involved in the illegal schemes of tax planning and evasion; ...

FTA between EU and Canada

Published: Sergey Panov | 07/07/2016 | news

European commission propose officially declaim and concluded Free Trade Agreement between EU and Canada. Commission need to get support from the European Council and European Parliament. After finishing this process this agreement can be provisionally applied. European commission propose officially declaim and concluded Free Trade Agreement between EU and Canada. Commission need to get support from the European Council and European Parliament. After finishing this process this agreement can be provisionally applied. The commission hope that agreement between EU and Canada will signed during next summit between them in October. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: "FAT between EU and Canada is the best and progressive agreements and I want that it go into force as soon as possible. It provide new opportunities for European companies while promoting our standard as benefit for people. It's time to begin. At stake is the credibility of the European trade policy." EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said: "I hope that now the deal with Canada will be signed and concluded quickly, to the benefit of consumers, workers, and entrepreneurs – this is...

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