Tax

Spanish tax authorities have given their ok for football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo to pay close to 19 million euros ($22 million) to settle a tax fraud claim, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors in Madrid said the deal...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government has no such plan to impose Value Added Tax (VAT) on education including private universities, reports BSS. Sheikh Hasina said this while chairing a meeting of the Executive...

News Hour: Seattle’s city council unanimously passed a pioneering income tax on the city’s highest earners on Monday, a measure that has become a clarion call for Democrats there even though it is likely to face...

News Hour: Prosecutors in Barcelona say they are not against replacing football star Lionel Messi’s 21-month jail sentence for tax fraud with a fine, a spokeswoman announced Friday. They said they were willing to give the...

News Hour: Spanish prosecutors said on Tuesday they had filed a claim against Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on two counts of tax fraud dating back to when he coached Real Madrid. The Portuguese manager owes...

News Hour: Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will testify on July 31 in a case in which he is accused of hiding income from the tax authorities, court officials said on Tuesday. Any chance Cristiano Ronaldo had...

News Hour: Investigators raided the headquarters of Paris Saint-Germain and the homes of the club’s Argentinian stars Angel Di Maria and Javier Pastore on Tuesday in a tax fraud probe, legal sources said. French prosecutors launched...

News Hour: As voters consider soda taxes in four U.S. cities, a new study finds that low-income Berkeley neighborhoods slashed sugar-sweetened beverage consumption by more than one-fifth after the Northern California city enacted the nation’s first...

News Hour: US billionaire Warren Buffett challenged Donald Trump on Monday to release his tax returns, a feat which the Republican presidential candidate has so far resisted, reports BSS. Trump has said he won’t release the...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is updating its Anticorruption Policy to address tax secrecy, tax evasion, and aggressive forms of tax planning—collectively referred to as “tax integrity issues”—in the wake of recent global developments....