Corporate Tax

UK lawmakers call for tax crackdown on multinationals

3 Dec 2012

A committee of UK lawmakers has called on government to crack down on multinational companies that make substantial sales in Britain but pay little tax here, echoing demands from leaders across...

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Tax protest to hijack Starbucks outlets

13 Nov 2012

Dozens of UK Starbucks branches will be turned into creches, refuges and homeless shelters, as direct action group UK Uncut hijacks the coffee outlets to highlight the chain's tax avoidance...

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Talking Points

12 Nov 2012

Unions give CY input on policy address

3:30AM

Tax solutions go online

15 Nov 2011

Governments globally are making strenuous efforts to streamline tax systems for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to bring them to some semblance of uniformity.

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Taxman cuts earnings at Sinopec Shanghai

10 Aug 2007

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical has slashed its first-quarter net profit by 20 per cent after the local office of the State Administration of Taxation decided to strip the company of its...

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Huge back taxes loom on state-controlled companies

7 Jul 2007

Earnings to suffer once provisions are made, says expert

Profits of the nine state-owned firms that are facing back taxes will be hit this year as they need to set aside large...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Tax puzzle stalls listing at least two months

Sichuan Chemical, the first H-share listing to be hit by mainland authorities' March directive on tax, will postpone its US$55 million float for at least two months, sources say.

8:36AM

Sichuan Chemical listing promotion tour in disarray over preferential-tax query

Officials from listing candidate Sichuan Chemical have cancelled a promotional tour of Hong Kong and flown back to Sichuan after being unable to confirm how much tax the company would pay.

8:24AM

Half-point cut to 16pc 'affordable'

Hong Kong's status as the low-tax business centre of Asia was reaffirmed with a cut in profits tax of half-a-percentage point to 16 per cent.

11:19PM

Tax cut welcome, but full review is needed

The pats on the back the Government is receiving for its proposals to reform corporation tax are mainly its own.

The warm glow of self-congratulation on implementing a Budget promise...

3:43AM

Review of profits tax takes to the road

The Government yesterday launched a public consultation document as part of its review of profits tax, possibly paving the way for a reduction in corporation tax from 16.5 to 15 per cent.

3:33AM

H-share tax rate remains

The first batch of nine H-share companies listed overseas will keep their 15 per cent corporate tax rate for last year and this year.

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