American Samoa News

EU Removes Bahamas, Saint Kitts From Tax Blacklist

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Monday, June 4, 2018

The EU on May 25 removed the Bahamas and Saint Kitts and Nevis from its list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. Read Full Story

EU Announces Sanctions For 'Blacklisted' Countries

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Thursday, March 22, 2018

The European Commission is to take steps to ensure that EU external development and investment funds cannot be channelled or transited through entities in countries included on the EU's "blacklist" of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. Read Full Story

Sweden To Review Transactions With States On EU's Tax Black List

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

The Swedish Government has directed the tax agency to review transactions with jurisdictions placed on the European Union's black list of non-cooperative territories in the area of taxation. Read Full Story

EU Makes Changes To Tax Blacklist

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

The EU has removed three countries from its list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions and added a further three. Read Full Story

EU Removes Jurisdictions From Tax Blacklist

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The EU has announced the removal of eight jurisdictions from its tax blacklist. Read Full Story

EU Tax Blacklist To Be Slimmed By Nine

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Monday, January 22, 2018

At its meeting on January 22, the EU Council is to remove Barbados, Grenada, South Korea, Macao, Mongolia, Panama, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates from the EU's list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters, according to an agenda released prior to the meeting. Read Full Story

EU Accused Of Tax Blacklist Hypocrisy

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Monday, December 11, 2017

An umbrella body for non-governmental organizations in Finland has criticized the European Union for not including member states on its tax blacklist when several EU countries have laws in place that encourage corporate tax avoidance. Read Full Story

Offshore IFCs Absent From EU's New Tax Blacklist

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

EU member states have agreed to a new EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, featuring 17 jurisdictions and notably relatively few offshore financial centers. Read Full Story

IRS Issues Revised Tax Guide For US Possessions

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Thursday, February 11, 2016

The Internal Revenue Service has released a revised version of its Tax Guide for Individuals Receiving Income from the United States Possessions – American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands – in 2015. Read Full Story

US Congress Passes Huge Fiscal Package

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Monday, December 21, 2015

The US House of Representatives and Senate have approved the bipartisan Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act and the Omnibus spending bill, which together make permanent or renew the package of "tax extenders" that expired at the end of 2014, and suspend three Obamacare taxes, at a 10-year cost of USD680bn. Read Full Story

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