Cross-border tax issues, expat filing rules, and international tax policy — because taxes don’t stop at the U.S. border.
Talk about your taxpayers literally being robbed… The Danish Tax Ministry has reported that at least fifteen computers and two telephones have been stolen from their offices in Christianshavn. The robberies happened at the end of September. No signs of a break-in were obvious, leading officials to believe that it was an inside job. While…
It seems that the spammers, phishers, scammers, and schemers are upping their game these days. In addition to the EFTPS scam making the rounds, I received word that there is a phishing scheme involving the Canada Revenue Agency. The email read: Online Refund Form After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have…
I’ve often written about the fact that I believe that “sin taxes” – excise taxes on things that are ostensibly bad for us and should therefore be discouraged – are usually more about raising revenue than modifying behavior. I say this despite the fact that our legislators in this country swear that isn’t the case….
This has to be my favorite tax story of the week (even better than my vodka story, coming later today). The Telegraph (UK) is confirming reports that Romania’s Senate has voted down a proposal to tax witches and fortune tellers because… wait for it… they were scared of being cursed. Yeah, I’m not making that…
A couple of weeks after Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan was detained in Australia over a multimillion-dollar tax bill, he has been granted permission to leave the country. The 70-year-old actor has been embroiled in a tax controversy with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) for five years. He recently returned to Oz to attend his…
So maybe it is a kindler, gentler IRS after all… The IRS has announced that it will drop its civil suit against the Swiss-based UBS, despite the fact that the bank is not technically in compliance with an existing agreement. In a show of not-so-totally surprising deference to the Swiss government, the IRS indicated that…
Germany may not have taken home the World Cup – but plenty of cups boosted revenues last month. The Finance Ministry of Germany is reporting that the country’s beer tax in July yielded revenues of a nearly 10% increase over the same time period last year. How much are we talking? The tax for July…
In 1945, following the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two parts: the then-Soviet occupied North and the American-occupied South. Both Koreas claimed the entirety of the Korean peninsula as their own and the two went to war in 1950. The Korean War would last three years and would result in the…
If you’re familiar with the taxing laws in various countries, you know that they can be tricky. There are generally complex formulas based on the number of days physically present inside of a country which will determines whether a person can be taxes as a resident – or non-resident – for income tax purposes (in…
It’s funny, my line of work. I practice tax law alongside my husband who practices international and corporate law. A significant portion of his practice involves business immigration work for companies who are interested in setting up shop here in the US. It’s always interesting to me, then, to read about taxpayers who are interested…