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MALTA’S FAILINGS ON MONEY LAUNDERING UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
The murder of graft-busting journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta on October 16 focused the world’s attention on the tiny Mediterranean tax haven and its failure to combat money laundering and corruption.
But even before the murder, Malta was under fire for its shortcomings in tackling money laundering.…
EIB DRAFTS PLANS TO LEND DUBLIN AIRPORT EUR350 TO FUND IMPROVEMENTS
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend EUR350 million to DAA PLC (formerly Dublin Airport Authority) to fund around half the cost of projected major improvements at Ireland’s Dublin Airport. This includes the structural overlay and rehabilitation of the airport’s existing main and secondary runways; introducing new baggage screening systems; upgrading associated infrastructure; simplifying airside flows; increasing aircraft parking stands; constructing a parallel taxiway; terminal building improvements; and constructing landside office space.…
LAW ENFORCERS SEEK TO EXTRADITE FRAUDSTERS THROUGH TREATY AND DIPLOMATIC MUSCLE, AS INTERNATIONAL CRIME PROLIFERATES
FINANCIAL fraud, as all practitioners know, has become increasingly international, a trend that will doubtless continue. For law enforcers based on national units of theoretically sovereign countries, this poses challenges, and one particularly tough nut to crack are procedures to extradite suspects to face trial in the country where their alleged victims reside.…
COMMISSION LAUNCHES NEW PLASTICS STRATEGY TO BOOST RECYCLING
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released its long-awaited plastics strategy, which – claims the European Union (EU) executive, will “transform the way products are designed, produced, used and recycled in the EU”.
Brussels has now declared (on January 16) that it wants to ensure that all plastics packaging put on the EU market will be recyclable by 2030; the consumption of single-use plastics will be reduced; and the intentional use of microplastics – plastic particles smaller than 5mm, for example microbeads in exfoliating products – will be restricted.…
EU COUNCIL ADOPTS CONTROVERSIAL MONEY LAUNDERING AND TAX FRAUD BLACKLIST
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers today (December 5) adopted a money laundering blacklist, bringing widespread criticism because the listing – designed to prevent tax fraud and evasion – only covers countries outside the 28-nation bloc. Despite the European Commission screening 92 jurisdictions worldwide, the final list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters only contains 17 jurisdictions: American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam (another US territory), South Korea, Macau (a China special administrative region), the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…
DAIRY INDUSTRY LEADERS DIVIDED OVER BEST PATH FOR EU FAIR TRADE LEGISLATION
The promise of the European Union (EU) agriculture and rural development Commissioner Phil Hogan to give dairy and other farmers “a fair share of the pie” from food industry revenues and to protect them from the power of big retailers has added tension to an already vexed issue.…
FINANCIAL PLANNING HAS BECOME KEY TO THE RECOVERY OF THE IRISH HOTEL SECTOR
After a bleak decade of boom-to-bust, debt and hotel closures, Ireland’s hotel sector is again in what it hopes is a sustainable growth mode as the economy rebounds. A 2017 Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) survey of hotel members showed that 91% are planning investments in capacity with 43% planning to invest in guest technology, such as broadband. …
EXPERTS CLAIM CHANGES TO IRISH ECOMMERCE TAX REGIME POSES GREATER THREAT THAN BREXIT
IF Brexit did not pose a sufficiently large external threat to the Irish economy, another potentially major disruption is in the offing, via planned changes to European Union (EU) taxation rules on e-commerce.
Faced with the politically toxic reality that major American high-tech multinationals such as Google, Facebook and PayPal pay far less tax than might be expected given their huge profit, the European Union (EU) has been considering reforms to increase revenues from these giants.…
EXPERTS CLAIM CHANGES TO IRISH ECOMMERCE TAX REGIME POSES GREATER THREAT THAN BREXIT
IF Brexit did not pose a sufficiently large external threat to the Irish economy, another potentially major disruption is in the offing, via planned changes to European Union (EU) taxation rules on e-commerce.
Faced with the politically toxic reality that major American high-tech multinationals such as Google, Facebook and PayPal pay far less tax than might be expected given their huge profit, the European Union (EU) has been considering reforms to increase revenues from these giants.…
EUROPOL IN BIGGEST HIT EVER AGAINST ONLINE PIRACY
International police agency Interpol and its European Union (EU) counterpart Europol have
announced what they say is the biggest hit ever against online piracy with law enforcers
taking down more than 20,500 websites selling counterfeit goods seized in 26 countries.
Participating countries were Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Britain,
Colombia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, the USA
and China special administrative region Hong Kong.…