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Singapore Government Offers Email for Tax, Other Bills

19 June 2010

One of the biggest criticisms of most governments is that they are inefficient. It’s not usual for tax returns and other correspondence to get bogged down in bad or incomplete addresses, insufficient postage or processing issues. Singapore hopes to change all of that. The government is giving all citizens, foreign residents and businesses an email [...]

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Tax By the Kilometer: A New Meaning to “Going Dutch”

16 November 2009

The Dutch are well known for Delft pottery, wooden shoes, legalized prostitution and windmills. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of those things haven’t caught on in all areas of the world (oh c’mon, tell me that you have a pair of wooden shoes in your closet). I have a feeling that list of things that aren’t [...]

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Singapore, Liechtenstein No Longer Gray

16 November 2009

Who says that a little pressure doesn’t work these day? Singapore and Liechtenstein have both apparently decided that they wanted to be one of the cool kids after all. This week, both countries received word that they are slated to be removed from the dreaded gray list of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development [...]

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