Sentence examples for progress on tax from inspiring English sources

Cameron on Wednesday was due to urge an EU summit to make progress on tax transparency.

If it could make a little bit of progress on tax and transparency, that could unlock many more resources for development.

Hillier said: "It beggars belief that, having made disappointing progress on tax evasion and avoidance, the taxman also seems incapable of running a satisfactory service for people trying to pay their fair share".

[C6.] Little Progress on Tax Loophole Republicans and Democrats at a House hearing denounced corporations that acquire Bermuda addresses to avoid taxes, but made no progress toward closing the loophole.

At his closing press conference, Cameron said there had been "real progress" on tax, with the G8 agreement having the potential to rewrite the global rules on tax and transparency.

Only two countries, Guatemala and Nauru, have no legal system for the exchange of tax information, although they are working on it.But the real measure of success for the OECD project is progress on Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs)—bilateral agreements between tax havens and bigger countries to help each other on tax matters.

The adverse effects of a devaluation were clear and the reformist Kiriyenko government was making progress on taxes and in other areas.

They also welcomed progress on taxing patent boxes, a practice whereby intellectual property royalties can divert profits from the countries where they are made.

A future tax agreement between Greece and Switzerland could improve tax collection, as could progress on a tax dispute resolution system, Horst Reichenbach, the head of the task force, said at a news conference in Brussels.

That said, they have had to make some concessions: in Singapore, for instance, tax evaders can now be prosecuted for money laundering, at least in theory.The overall message of the index is that while there has been progress on international tax transparency, it has been more modest than tax haven-bashing politicians would have us believe.

"It is a milestone for EU tax policy, as it paves the way for more ambitious member states to progress on a tax file, even when unanimity could not be achieved," said Algirdas Semeta, the European Commissioner for tax.