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Indian Budget Signals Further Reform Delays 3/20/2012 India’s 2012 Budget has been unveiled, including a raft of tax measures designed to signal progress in the implementation of a direct tax code and a goods and services tax regime.
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Germany Defends VAT Rules For Art 3/14/2012 Germany’s State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann has recently underlined
his grave concerns regarding the European Commission’s request that Germany
apply the full rate of value-added tax to the supply of works of art and
collectors’ items.
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Germany Upbraided Over Art Tax Break 3/5/2012 The European Commission has officially asked Germany to change its value-added
tax rules as regards the application of a reduced rate to the supply of
works of art and collectors' items.
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France's Hadopi Submits First Case Load For Prosecution 2/20/2012 Hadopi, the French authority responsible for the dissemination of works and
the protection of rights on the Internet, has revealed that it has
now sent the first batch of files of Internet users suspected of illegally downloading
films and music protected by copyright law to the public prosecutors office.
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UK Gives Commonwealth Games Athletes Tax Boost 1/30/2012 Athletes resident outside of the UK who compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games will be exempt from income tax, the government has announced.
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Sarkozy Readies Fiscal Strategy 1/26/2012 Hoping to avoid an electoral defeat in the forthcoming presidential elections, French President Nicolas Sarkozy intends to unveil concrete details
of proposed fiscal measures designed to stimulate the country’s economy
on January 29.
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Hollande Relaunches French Debate On Anti-Piracy Tax 1/23/2012 During a recent visit to Nantes, Socialist candidate for the French presidency,
François Hollande, put forward the idea of abolishing the independent
authority currently responsible for the protection of rights on the Internet in
France, and replacing the body with a law providing for a tax on or contribution
from stakeholders in the digital economy to fund artistic creation.
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UK Author Calls For Tax Breaks To Help New Writers 1/20/2012 A tax incentive would help give new writers a head start in publishing, one of the UK's leading authors has said.
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Canadian Revenue Highlights Arts Tax Credit 1/19/2012 Canada's Revenue Minister has been highlighting the benefits of a new tax credit for parents, designed to promote the involvement of children in the arts.
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WIPO To Agree International Treaty On Audiovisual Copyright 10/5/2011 The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Francis
Gurry, has welcomed a decision by its General Assembly to convene a diplomatic
conference in 2012 to agree an international treaty on audiovisual performance
rights.
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France Welcomes EU IP Directive 9/20/2011 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has recently welcomed the European Union council
of ministers decision to adopt the draft directive providing for the extension
of intellectual property rights for performers and producers of music from 50
to 70 years.
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US Taxpayers May Credit UK Non-Dom Levy 8/23/2011 The Internal Revenue Service has decided that US taxpayers resident in the UK can now offset an the UK non-dom levy against their US tax bill.
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Switzerland To Reform Lump Sum Taxation 7/7/2011 Switzerland’s Federal Council has announced plans to reform the lump sum
taxation of wealthy foreigners in the Confederation, in a bid to strengthen fiscal
equity as well as to improve acceptance of the system, while at the same
time endeavouring to preserve the attractiveness of Switzerland as a location.
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UK Consults On Tax Break For Art Donors 7/4/2011 The UK is contemplating offering tax breaks in return for people donating pre-eminent objects or works of art to the nation in their wills, and has launched a consultation detailing the proposals.
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France Rejects Tax On Art 6/9/2011 Following a long debate, and at the request of the government, the French National
Assembly voted recently to reject an amendment to the collective budget seeking
to subject works of art in France to wealth tax.
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French Senate Exempts Artists From Social Levy 11/16/2010 The French senate majority party Union for a Popular Movement has recently
adopted three amendments to the country’s 2011 social security finance bill,
exempting artists and models from the 6% social levy applied to certain fringe
payments, such as earnings derived from participation and from enhanced pensions.
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Google, YouTube Defeat Viacom In Copyright Battle 6/25/2010 YouTube and its parent Google won a significant victory in a US federal court on June 24 against Viacom, which had accused the internet firms of allowing copyrighted material to be uploaded to YouTube without permission.
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Google Books Faces New Copyright Headache 4/8/2010 A coalition of photographers associations in the US has filed a class action copyright infringement suit against Google in relation to the search engine's controversial project to create a vast online library.
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US Urged To Step Up IP Protection 3/26/2010 A wide coalition representing American movie, television and music
industry and labor is urging the United States government to bolster
its efforts to protect intellectual property.
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Britons Baffled By Copyright Laws 2/26/2010 The credibility of UK copyright laws has 'fallen through the floor'
according to one consumer group, which found that the vast majority of
Britons don't know exactly what they are permitted by law to copy or
record.
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