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G-20 GLOBAL TAX STRUGGLE ON TODAY’S AGENDA: Digital taxation is one of the big issues on the docket of the G20’s virtual gathering today of finance ministers, in particular Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) efforts to introduce a global minimum corporate tax rate as a way to ensure digital giants are taxed. U.S. Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen
threw Washington’s weight behind the initiative Monday. The U.S. already has a similar initiative in place, called
GILTI, which the OECD last fall
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Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. Picture from the Government of Luxembourg.
“Hate speech cannot be accepted, not against Jews, not against gypsies, gays or the disabled,” says Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, after signing a landmark agreement to compensate his country’s Holocaust survivors.
By Eldad Beck, Israel Hayom via JNS
Following an agreement signed on Wednesday by the government of Luxembourg to compensate Holocaust survivors, return looted art and restitute dormant bank accounts, Prime Minister Zavier Bettel told
Israel Hayom that the fight against anti-Semitism is not over.
“It wouldn’t be right to say that Luxembourg is protected against anti-Semitism and racism now,” he said in the wake of the deal, which was also signed by the World Jewish Restitution Organization, the Jewish community of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
B Medical Systems, a Luxembourg-based vaccine cold chain and medical refrigeration service, has signed an agreement with the Adani Group for setting up its manufacturing facility and technology initiatives in India. The MoU signed with the Adani Group includes erecting manufacturing facilities in both Mundra SEZ and domestic tariff area, providing logistics for Covid-19 transportation domestically and globally and creating ‘Pharma Excellence Centres’ at the Adani group airports across India. It also entails a technological collaboration to bring state-of-the-art solar-powered vaccine logistics solutions to India. The MoU was signed Thursday evening in the presence of Jean Claude Kugener, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to India at the Embassy in New Delhi.
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