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THE INCOMING adoption of a new national Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India, due to be introduced from next April (2017), is generating a major windfall of extra business over the next two years for accounting and tax consultancy firms.…

The European Commission’s decision on August 30 to order United States (US) tech giant Apple to repay Ireland a record-breaking EUR13 billion in back taxes will make waves in the tax and accounting world, experts have told Accounting & Business Ireland.…

CONCERN is growing in Kenya that its clothing manufacturing industry will be kicked out from the European Union’s EU) ‘market access regulation’ (MAR) from October 1, which has granted its exporters duty-free and quota-free access to EU consumers and businesses since 2008.…

THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) council has prevented member countries from freely posting warnings to a global database regarding threats to civil airliners in conflict zones, without first consulting the government of a country mentioned in such a declaration.

The change comes in amendments to procedures to ICAO’s Conflict Zone Information Repository (CZIR), which was set up after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down while flying over pro-Russian rebel held territory in eastern Ukraine.…

BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, released its final net neutrality guidance today (Aug 30), including some significant changes from the draft published in June. The group however argued that these integrated the commercial freedoms demanded by operates and restrictions sought by users.…

BIG marketing stunts can boost sales of technical textiles and maybe one of the biggest examples in Europe this year was created by world renowned artists Christo. He created ‘The Floating Piers’ on Lake Iseo, near Brescia, in northern Italy.…

Three out of four people polled for a European Parliament-commissioned survey have said they wanted the European Union (EU) to do more to tackle tax fraud. Asked whether they would like the EU to intervene less than at present or more in “the fight against tax fraud” 75% said more, 14% said they wanted no change, 5% less and 6% answered they did not know.…

THE PARIS conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last December, of COP21, made a commitment to create a carbon-neutral world between 2050 and 2100. This means that governments and international organisations must devise policies to ensure the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity equals the amount that that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally preventing the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere.…

South America’s cosmetics and personal care sector is looking to bounce back from a slowdown caused by the region’s macroeconomic troubles, but political pressures and regional trade alliances are driving individual country markets down divergent paths.

Over the last year, countries across the region have been buffeted by economic turmoil that has had a knock-on impact on the cosmetics sector.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s latest EUR500 million support package for European farmers, finalised at an August 26 European Union (EU) committee in Brussels, will not ease the dairy crisis, European dairy groups have warned.

“Production cuts is the label used to describe the current package of measures,” said the EU farm lobby group European Milk Board (EMB)’s president Romuald Schaber following the initial announcement of the plans in July.…