Israel is not only withholding tax revenues that it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Since last October investors have no longer had to pay a 20% withholding tax.
There is confusion about the point at which the withholding tax might be deducted.
The 7% Japanese withholding tax on tiny dividends can be recouped as a credit against U.S. taxes.
But harmonising corporate tax and setting a minimum withholding tax on savings would be much harder to swallow.
Offshore-account holders must pay a lump sum to make up for unpaid taxes, plus an annual withholding tax.
And in any event, as Mr Monti reminds them, a withholding tax would be for them to keep.
And just last year, U.S. congressman Pete Stark proposed the not-so-subtly-named Narrowing Exceptions for Withholding Tax, or NEWT, Act.
Tax is a touchy issue for Luxembourg, which lures huge amounts of German savings by not charging withholding tax on bank interest.
Self-Employment tax (SE tax) is essentially where you are paying both the employER and the employEE portion of the Social Security withholding tax.
An employee who exercises a non-statutory option must report the bargain element of the transaction as earned income that is subject to withholding tax.
And foreign investors, with 22%, pay only a 15% withholding tax.
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Were a withholding tax imposed to stop this, surely he already a law-breaker, remember would switch his savings to Switzerland, or still farther afield, rather than pay up?
Rejecting an idea, fancied by some state premiers, of a tax on assets, Germany's government opted firmly for a lower (25%) withholding tax on savings income.
It ceased to be a tax-free haven for citizens of European Union countries in July, when a withholding tax (imposed at source on interest) was levied on their money.
Among other things, the new treaty adopts a 0% withholding tax--down from 10%--on certain interest, dividends and royalties paid from the country where a company is doing business but isn't based.
Starting in 2013, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will put the burden on foreign financial institutions to look for and report American account-holders or face a 30% withholding tax on American investments.
And the European Commission says both deals may be illegal under the EU savings-tax directive of 2005, because they let offshore-account holders pay a lower rate of withholding tax without having to reveal their identities.
For example, a U.S. company that receives significant dividends each year from a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary would no longer pay Japan a 10% withholding tax on dividends. (Some dividends probably will still be taxed at 5%).
And he will argue that deeper information sharing rather than harmonisation is how the EU should pursue integration, building on Brown's successful riposte to the proposal to establish an EU withholding tax on income from financial securities.
In 2010 Congress enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, requiring foreign financial institutions to identify American account-holders and disclose their balances and withdrawals, or face a 30% withholding tax on income from any financial assets they hold in America.
For at least two years, the Swiss government has been actively pursuing a deal with the US, similar to those it has already agreed with the UK and with Germany, in which Swiss banks charge foreign clients a withholding tax.
He estimated that the additional surcharge, and other direct tax initiatives, such as a withholding tax of 20% on profits distributed by unlisted companies to shareholders through a buyback of shares, would help the government raise a total of 133 billion rupees.
The market was re-created as London's Eurobond market, which now accounts for a large slice of City of London business (and is currently being fiercely defended in the City against proposals by the European Commission for a withholding tax that would very likely divert the business elsewhere).
Experts say other whistleblowers are waiting for what they hope are imminent payments on large issues as varied as payroll tax withholding, tax shelters, illicit foreign accounts or arcane corporate accounting matters like transfer pricing.
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