10/13/2013
South Africa and UK agree to work together to tackle offshore tax evasion
South Africa will join the pilot scheme for the automatic exchange of tax information launched by the United Kingdom
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10/06/2013
African Tax System Seen As Constraint For Foreign Businesses
Compliance with tax legislation and practice was found to be "by far the biggest challenge facing the tax functions of companies doing business in Africa
10/01/2013
African Leaders Urged to Raise voice Against Tax Havens
Over USD 50bn Leaves Continent in Illicit Financial Flows
09/17/2013
Isle of Man signs tax info exchange deals with Lesotho
The Isle of Man has signed two more tax information exchange agreements .
09/09/2013
Tax evasion holding back Africa's growth
Most African countries have tax bases that could realize their development goals
09/08/2013
Global experts to meet in Kenya on fighting tax fraud
Kenya is set to host an international tax conference from Monday to seek ways of fighting tax fraud and encouraging international cooperation.
09/05/2013
Gambia: Two Dutch Nationals Charged With Tax Evasion
Counsel for the accused persons objected to the charge sheet on the grounds that the Income and Sales Tax Act was repealed.
09/04/2013
G20 summit: states chase tax evaders with plan to swap data globally
New treaties will require financial institutions to automatically disclose customer assets to overseas tax bodies
09/04/2013
OECD's Gurría presents G20 Leaders with proposal to tackle tax evasion
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría today presented to G20 Leaders ground-breaking proposals to tackle tax evasion and avoidance by both companies and individuals.
08/05/2013
Tax evasion: FIRS begins audit of firms’ transactions with off-shore arms
ff-shore subsidiaries to evade tax in their country of origin.
08/05/2013
How US tax rules will affect local finance institutions
The regulatory compliance burden on South Africa's financial institutions is set to increase.
07/24/2013
Changes in the South Africa – Mauritius DTA Agreement
The first treaty was concluded in 1996 and on May 17th 2013, a new DTA was signed in Maputo.
07/21/2013
Offshore special - Mauritius: Sun, Sea and Tax
The current commercial interest in Africa is having a knock-on effect in Mauritius as it becomes one of the world’s growing offshore jurisdictions
07/14/2013
Mauritius to address India’s concerns over tax treaty
Mauritius offers to include limitation of benefit clause in double taxation avoidance agreement with India
07/05/2013
Vatican bank joins global 'fight against money laundering'
The revelations of wrongdoing currently rocking the Vatican bank couldn't have come at a worse time for the Swiss-born anti-money laundering
07/05/2013
Zambia still bleeding from tax avoidance
All firms in the report claim innocence
07/04/2013
Kenya Revenue Authority Partners With UBA On Online Tax Payment
UBA Kenya Bank Ltd. has announced a partnership with the Kenya Revenue Authority to pilot an online tax remittance/collection system aimed at facilitating electronic collection of taxes.
06/27/2013
Nigeria: FATCA - Nigerian Banks Get October Deadline for IRS Registration
Nigerian banks have been given till October 25 to register with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requirement
06/27/2013
Ugandans evade taxes because of corruption and ignorance
This also highlights the extent of tax evasion and tax avoidance prevalent.
06/24/2013
Tanzania: Govt Probes Swiss Accounts
Tanzanian government is probing reports that about 200 of its citizens have stashed $196 million in Swiss banks