Tag: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  Colombia invited to join OECD; third Latin American member with Mexico and Chile

  

  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced on Friday that Colombia would be officially invited to join the group. The Paris-based economic organization was founded in 1961 and has traditionally included industrialized nations, though in recent years it has extended its membership to emerging economies.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2017 - 08:46 UTC

  Argentina unveils plan to slash corporate income taxes to promote investment

  

  Argentina plans to cut corporate income taxes to 25% by 2021 for companies that reinvest profits, it said on Tuesday, part of a wide-reaching tax reform bill intended to accelerate investment in Latin America's no.3 economy. The bill, which would slash taxes for companies willing to reinvest in Argentina from 35%, will be sent to Congress in the coming days, Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne said.

• Monday, September 19th 2016 - 11:50 UTC

  Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica with 60% household internet penetration

  

  The State of Broadband 2016 report, released by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean shows that 43.4% of all households in the region were connected to the Internet in 2015, nearly doubling the figure from 2010.

• Sunday, April 24th 2016 - 08:26 UTC

  International major effort to cooperate on tax issues and halt evasion and elusion

  

  The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are joining forces with other international organizations to cooperate on tax issues and develop new tools and standards to halt tax base erosion and evasion.

• Friday, April 8th 2016 - 05:07 UTC

  MP Rosindell blasts 'direct rule' for BOTs as 'unnecessary and unjust'

  

  A UK member of Parliament has come out strongly in support of the British Overseas Territories praising their economic success and the right of their peoples to govern and decide their own future. MP Andrew Rosindell, Chairman of the BOT and Crown Dependencies all party Parliamentary groups described suggestions from some senior figures in Westminster calling for 'direct rule' over BOT's as unnecessary and unjust, based on a complete misunderstanding of the situation.

• Friday, February 12th 2016 - 07:02 UTC

  Majority of Mercosur teen-agers are 'low performers' in maths, science and reading

  

  Bad news for Mercosur aspirations. Low standards at schools in most of South America are a common problem according to the latest report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, which has the region's students among the last fifteen in a list of 64 countries.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2015 - 09:56 UTC

  OECD has proposals to cut corporate tax minimization; but much skepticism

  

  Companies should pay tax in the countries where they conduct business under new proposals intended to cut corporate tax minimization. An OECD/G20 report found laws allowing companies to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions means that between $100bn and $240bn is lost annually. That equates to between 4% and 10% of global corporate tax revenues.

• Friday, July 31st 2015 - 06:25 UTC

  Former Fed chief says discussion is not monetary policy but government spending

  

  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warns that government spending “extremely dangerous” to the future of the US economy. Greenspan decried a rise in entitlement costs, which he contended have pressured the U.S. economy.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 07:32 UTC

  PM Cameron and Peña Nieto discuss agenda of bilateral and global issues

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed President Peña Nieto of Mexico to Downing Street on Thursday afternoon as part of his State Visit to the UK.

• Tuesday, December 9th 2014 - 07:52 UTC

  Wealth redistribution and inequality at its highest in OECD countries

  

  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found that the divide between the richest 10 percent and poorest 10 percent in many of the world's wealthiest countries - including Germany, US and UK - has been growing. In a report released Monday, OECD said that this, in turn, had caused growth to slow.