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Corporate tax experts warned that with the intensification of technical negotiations, countries’ “special requests” to exclude industries from the

Wirecard inquiry: Germany's political and financial elite exposed 12 minutes to read By: Guy Chazan and Olaf Storbeck It was an innocuous question, posed shortly before midnight some nine hours into an exhausting parliamentary hearing into the Wirecard scandal. "Did you ever actually own Wirecard shares?" Cansel Kiziltepe, the Social Democrat MP, asked Ralf Bose, head of Germany's auditor watchdog Apas. His answer caused a political earthquake and brought an abrupt end to his more than 30-year career. A former partner at KPMG, Bose ran a government agency that is normally pr...

by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 - 02:45 AM As German conservatives fight it out seeking Angela Merkel's successor to lead her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) into the September election, on Monday party bosses threw their weight behind Armin Laschet to represent the center-right's candidate for next Chancellor of Germany. "We have expressed our clear support for our party leader and made it clear that we consider him to be exceptionally suitable," CDU premiere Volker Bouffier said of broad party support. This comes after months of behind-the-scenes jockeying between the 60-year o...

Publishing date: Apr 06, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Some countries such as France have implemented temporary digital taxes to raise revenue from U.S. tech giants until a global deal is agreed; the U.S. has threatened them with tariffs in retaliation. Photo by Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images files Article content The world’s leading economies are close to agreeing on a set of principles that would revolutionize the taxation of multinationals after France and Germany threw their support behind a new U.S. approach to the issue. Talks on how to make it diffic...