New measures removing job inequities, prisoners paying some of their earnings to victims, and laws to stop extortionate price increases for staple goods are all part of Premier Paula Cox's plan for Bermuda.
As the Premier prepares to set out her visi...
DATE: Nov 05, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Taxes and scams seem to go together hand in hand. While the Internal Revenue Service has long been subject to individuals claiming that there is no law stating that they must pay tax, individuals who owe the Internal Revenue Service large sums of mon...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.
Google's income shifting — involving strategies known t...
WASHINGTON — The Republican grab for Congress is being funded by a pack of wolves masquerading as a herd of sheep.
How sweet and innocent they seem, these mysterious organisations with names like Americans for Job Security. Who could argue with that?...
This is the full text of the speech given yesterday by Dale Butler when he officially launched his campaign to become the leader of the Progressive Labour Party outside the Salvation Army shelter.
Good afternoon and welcome to my official press confe...
BEIJING (AP) — China will impose nationwide a tax on oil and gas drilling and other resource industries to raise money for development in poor western regions, an official said yesterday.
Beijing is carrying out a test of such a tax in its oil-rich w...
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – European Union leaders moved closer yesterday to making public the results of stress tests on banks in a drive to restore market confidence after Spain boosted the euro zone with a successful bond sale.
Germany, which had b...
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) said good judgment and not structure would be key to effective supervision as investors shrugged off the biggest shake-up of the banking landscape in a decade.
Analysts said a reform to ...
Some major changes needed to sustain the Cayman Islands as a viable economy could be applied to the case of Bermuda.
That is according to Jim Miller, chair of the Miller Commission on Taxation, Fiscal Management & Regulation Reform in the Cayman Isla...
Increased spending and tighter revenue constraints are the biggest issues facing offshore financial centres (OFCs), including Bermuda, at the moment.
That was the finding of a panel of experts speaking about the state and future of the OFC industry a...
