According to Netflix’s latest UK filings, the video-streaming service saw close to a 40 percent decrease in its UK tax bill from 2015 to 2016 – and it seemingly paid taxes on just a small fraction of its total UK revenues.
In an effort to reduce rates of childhood obesity and raise additional revenue, the UK government passed draft legislation this past spring adding a tax to sugary drinks.
Why didn’t the new Duke of Westminster have to pay any inheritance tax? It turns out that the vast majority of his inheritance was passed down via family trusts, which still fall outside the scope of inheritance tax rules in the UK.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered a blunt message to international policymakers in advance of its annual meeting earlier this month: By cutting taxes for the wealthy, politicians are jeopardizing economic growth globally and undermining prosperity.
The French banking company BNP Paribas lost a £35 million tax avoidance case with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK government department responsible for tax collection.
The city of Amsterdam is reportedly planning to institute a tourist tax to curb the influx of visitors into the city. Tourism has increased dramatically in Amsterdam in recent years, sparking protest from locals. T
Trump famously resisted all calls to release his tax returns in the 2016 presidential elections, claiming victory in spite of refusing to release the returns. But could he be forced to disclose his tax returns if he were to run again in 2020? Lawmakers in California hope so.
British MPs have accused major online retailer Amazon of evading VAT at the expense of taxpayers. VAT, or value added tax, is a 20 percent consumption tax added to goods and services that are bought and sold in the European Union. In the UK, all companies with a turnover that is greater than £85,000 must register with the government to pay VAT.
Over the course of the past several weeks, President Trump has consistently called for tax reform, and the Senate Finance Committee has scheduled hearings on both business and individual tax reform.
A former banker working at Credit Suisse in Switzerland was sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States in Virginia. Susanne Rüegg Meier, formerly a manager at the bank, helped numerous Americans conceal millions of dollars in offshore accounts, allowing them to evade their tax responsibilities.