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Showing posts with label world economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world economy. Show all posts

February 12, 2014

Car industry: what Australia could learn from state support around the world

Car manufacturing is a proud pillar of the western world's industrial history, but the hollowing out of Detroit as a city and an economic force is just the most shocking example of a decline that has afflicted automotive superpowers such as the US, the UK, France and now Australia, where Toyota will close all of its factories by 2017.

December 03, 2012

Tax: Starbucks in talks with UK's Revenue and Customs

Global coffee chain Starbucks has said it is in talks with HM Revenue and Customs and the Treasury over how much UK tax it pays.

November 20, 2012

One in four German firms 'to slash jobs' in 2013: Survey

BERLIN: Gloomy German companies are preparing to slash their workforces next year as the eurozone crisis bites, a survey showed on Monday, with more than one in four firms saying they would cut jobs in 2013.

February 24, 2012

Gulf on Foreign Profits Tax Threatens Deal on Corporate Rate Cut

President Barack Obama’s belief that the U.S. tax system pushes jobs overseas and Republican assertions that multinational companies are disadvantaged will make compromise on a new corporate tax code difficult.