Rep. Diego Hernandez, D-Portland, is testing the Oregon Legislature's overhauled system for addressing sexual harassment and hostile workplace allegations. He filed a lawsuit in an attempt to halt an imminent House vote to expel him from the Legislature and challenge the level of confidentiality provided to his accusers.
In March 2020 the Comptroller of Revenue released a concession confirming that where companies had to alter their operating practices to compensate for the COVID-19 outbreak, the comptroller would not determine that such company had failed the economic substance test under Article 6 of the Taxation (Companies – Economic Substance) (Jersey) Law 2019. Given that the pandemic remains ongoing, the comptroller recently issued further guidance in relation to the concession.
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The EU list of tax havens was introduced in 2017 with the intention of putting an end to tax havens around the world and imposing sanctions on them to stop the loss of tax revenues.
However, currently, it covers barely two per cent of corporate tax avoidance worldwide.
Most recently, the European Parliament had called for stricter criteria for the list as well as a consistent and transparent listing process.
The EU list of tax havens is the result of a review and dialogue process of the Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation in the European Council with third countries.
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Sven Giegold was speaking as the permanent representatives of the EU member states geared up to announce the EU s updated list of tax havens tomorrow. Turkey - led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - is almost certain to be put on further deferral until the end of June 2021 to implement measures for greater tax transparency - a move which Green MEP Mr Giegold regards as an abdication of the bloc s responsibility to its 450 million citizens.
He said: Turkey belongs on the European list of tax havens. The deferral for Turkey is an invitation to evade taxes.
A vote on whether to expel Rep. Diego Hernandez from the Oregon House, scheduled for Tuesday, has been delayed due to widespread power outages in Salem and bad weather forecast for the Salem area and elsewhere in the state, legislative officials announced Sunday. The vote on whether to accept a House Conduct Committee recommendation to oust the Portland Democrat is likely to be scheduled for .