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Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
14 Jan 2026 15:50 GMT
… payments to combat tax evasion and money laundering, European Union ministers … comes as 12% of European businesses flatly refused cash … unable to buy food. European officials worry about dependence … Visa and MasterCard. The EU now recommends citizens store …
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Closer Cooperation in Tax Administration
14 Jan 2026 14:56 GMT
… assessment, tax investigation, and measures to combat tax evasion.
The … ensuring sustainability in good tax administration, and increasing … s major objective of European integration, as well … policies and procedures with European Union standards.
The …
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Starmer refuses to commit to undoing pub tax raid
14 Jan 2026 13:54 GMT
… ... Ukrainian soldiers are defending European values on the front-line … policy. But yesterday the Tax Office said they did tell … Boriswave.”
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Starmer dodges question on business rates changes … starting with the family farm tax. Some farmers were so …
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George Vassiliou, ‘eternal optimist’ president who led Cyprus into the EU, dies at 94
14 Jan 2026 08:15 GMT
… thousands of partisans in Eastern Europe, barred from returning to … home, he cut taxes to stamp out tax evasion and sent in police … wife Androulla Vassiliou was an EU Commissioner for health, then … 2003. Cyprus eventually entered the EU in 2004, and adopted …
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EU banking rules could ‘choke investment’ from booming City
14 Jan 2026 01:14 GMT
… rewards of Brexit.
The European Union threatens derailing its … warns the rules could hamper Europe’s economic growth.
“ … the US giants.
After dodging a tax raid in the Autumn … for meetings with EU officials, including the European Commissioner for Financial …
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Letter of the week: Forget Britishness, we need to be more European
14 Jan 2026 00:03 GMT
… much nicer when we were European.
Mark Rowlands
Will insisting upon … of arms in the world. Europe needs to make clear that … worse. We all know this. Europe has to stand together against … include the payment of all taxes evaded. This breach of loyalty should …
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Editorial. Tax breakthrough
13 Jan 2026 18:46 GMT
… implement the global minimum tax, despite the challenges posed … multinational entities did not evade tax citing lack of physical … that irrespective of the corporate tax structure in any country, … tax on such companies from other jurisdictions such as Europe …
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When carbon crosses borders: the European CBAM and regulatory consolidation
13 Jan 2026 11:34 GMT
… the EU. However, in practical terms, it closely resembles a carbon tax … provides specific mechanisms to combat evasion practices, such as modifying products … effect, Regulation (EU) 2025/2083 of the European Parliament and of …
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Nigeria’s new tax laws: Hype, hoax and reality
12 Jan 2026 08:20 GMT
… often a justification—for widespread tax evasion among Nigerians.
Given this reality … (PITA), which governs individual income taxation through a progressive structure with … protests escalated to attacks on European-owned businesses, banks, colonial courts …
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Hungarian Secularist Gáspár Békés Challenges Dismissal in European Court of Human Rights
11 Jan 2026 18:29 GMT
… pursues his case at the European Court of Human Rights, … the rejection rate at the European Court is brutally high—above … a city representative of tax evasion. Since taxation was outside the mayor … I am hopeful about the European advocacy side of things. There …