British investment advisory group Ingenious Media said it will appeal an August 2016 Tax Tribunal ruling on the status of its film production partnerships, which date back as far as 2002 and involve many famous actors and footballers.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is on track to capture more than C$13bn (£7.5bn, $9.6bn, €8.6bn) in taxes owed after committing “important resources” to crack down on tax cheats, both at home and abroad, the country’s taxman has confirmed.
The man at the centre of Australia’s biggest ever tax evasion scandal that ensnared Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan is understood to have been arrested in Italy.
A 73-year-old woman from Texas has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the US by using accounts in Delaware and Panama to conceal more than $1.3m (£1m, €1.16m) in royalty income she earned from oil wells.
A Swiss national arrested in Frankfurt last week for spying on German tax officials allegedly recruited informants inside the country’s largest finance ministry to gather information on tax investigators.
Barcelona football legend Lionel Messi is being followed by an Argentinian government spy, according to a sensational report in the country’s local media.
The United Arab Emirates formally signed up to what the OECD calls ‘the most powerful multilateral treaty against offshore tax evasion and avoidance’, on Friday.
The Swedish government is looking at introducing measures that would force tax advisers to report clients who use “aggressive” tax planning schemes to avoid paying tax.
Germany’s finance ministry has set out a 10-point plan to combat tax evasion in response to the Panama Papers leak last year.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has issued a warning to residents using tax protester schemes to argue that they don’t need to pay tax after it executed three search warrants with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The Dutch government has launched a series of raids across Europe and in Australia as part of a crackdown on suspected money launderers and tax evaders, and the bank employees who may have helped them.
The UK tax office is still losing £11.4bn (€13.1bn, $14.1bn) of revenue every year to evasion despite introducing a host of measures aimed at tackling tax avoidance, according to research by consulting firm RSM.
