By: The Global Property Guide
In OECD countries, roundtrip transaction costs are generally below 10%.
However there are some countries with transaction costs which are really unnecessarily high. South Korea has the highest housing transaction cost, at 22% of the property’s value in Seoul, according to work by the Global Property Guide.
Transaction costs in Belgium, Italy, France, [...]
By: Yamileth MedinaA recent study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ranked developed nations based on life expectancies. Unfortunately, Americans don’t live the longest. Despite our technological advances in medicine and billions in health care spending, the average U.S. life expectancy is slightly over 78 years, one year under the OECD average. America [...]
By: shabiha
Paper presented on
“E-commerce: triggering a revaluation of Global Transfer Pricing”
in Seminar on Accounting Issues
by
Shabiha Durga
Research Scholar, UCCMS, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur
E-commerce: an insight
The fast development of technology has revolutionized the entire concept of business and commercialization since the last two-three decades. World is shrinking with the expanding electronic culture encompassing the business community. [...]
By: John Media
Singapore made its way to the “White List” ( a list of jurisdictions deemed to have substantially implemented OECD standard for transparency and exchange of information) maintained by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) after signing a 12th bilateral information sharing agreement with the French Government. The OECD requires a country [...]
By: Paul RafflesSingapore made its way to the “White List” ( a list of jurisdictions deemed to have substantially implemented OECD standard for transparency and exchange of information) maintained by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) after signing a 12th bilateral information sharing agreement with the French Government. The OECD requires a country [...]
By: John Media
A recent news report in Channel News Asia’s website stated that many high net worth individuals and enterprises may look towards Singapore to park their assets as the United States tightens the noose around the tax evaders. The traditional tax havens, which have long enjoyed the preference of the rich, are loosing the [...]
By: The Global Property Guide
Switzerland imposes the highest taxes on rental income of non-resident landlords, according to a study on the tax situation in more than 90 countries around the world. The study has been conducted by Global Property Guide with contributions from leading accounting firms in each country.
The effective income tax rate in Geneva, [...]
By: HITESH PATEL
1. Introduction
The debt crisis and loan defaults have been a constant feature of the global economy, the present size of the world debt problem overwhelms the imagination. It is clear that the countries in the Third World are in an inherently disadvantageous position. As primary exporters, they are at the mercy of price and [...]
By: Chris Rigby
This month I thought I would have a look at the recent listing by the OECD of a range of offshore territories. What is the OECD and what do these lists mean? And what on earth is a TIEA? Lastly, I will consider the implications for Gibraltar and why all this is important [...]
By: Victor Ulasi
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development have moved the motion that’s Governments should invest more money on children in the first six years of their lives to reduce social inequality and help all children, especially the most vulnerable, have happier lives, according to the OECD’s first-ever report on child well-being in its 30 [...]
By: Victor Ulasi
The meeting of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develpment’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information which was to have taken place in Los Cabos, Mexico, on 1-2 September has been transferred to Mexico City because of the threat of severe damage posed by Hurricane Jimena.The Global Forum on Transparency and [...]
By: Mritunjay Singh
An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com reveals that Australia has a high density of the World’s Top-500 universities compared to other OECD countries. AllAboutUni.com is an independent, global and interactive website where visitors can obtain information about universities (global rankings, student reviews, university news and campus pictures).The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) [...]
By: DR. S .TAMEEM SHARIEF
The most striking fact about India’s legal system is the difference between investor protection provided by the law as opposed to protection in practice. Table 2.1 compares India’s scores relative to different legal-origin country groups examined in the law and finance literature (by LLSV and others), and other emerging markets along [...]
By: Dennis Smith
Anyone that has earned any real wealth in the past 20 years knows that it is getting harder and harder to protect and or keep it. At one time “offshore” was just a buzzword – now it is a necessity!In the not-so-recent past, the British Virgin Islands, the Cacaos Islands, the Islands of [...]