by Alan Rhode | Nov 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
As many ill fated politicians have learned over the years, mission creep is an often inevitable outcome of any attempt to solve a geopolitical crisis by military means. The same unintended expansion can often...
by Alan Rhode | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond floated the idea of the city of London becoming “Singapore on the Thames” tax haven in the run up to the Brexit negotiations, it...
by Alan Rhode | Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Danish Finance Minister Kristian Jensen made sure he was the first to arrive at the Nov. 6 EU finance minister meeting. He was on a mission. For months his patience, as well as that of a few other countries opposed to the pending EU Digital...
by Alan Rhode | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
When EU finance ministers meet this week to grapple with the pending EU Digital Service Tax a key unresolved issue concerns the scope of the 3 percent temporary levy targeted at large internet companies such as Google,...
by Alan Rhode | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy eventually morphed into the European sovereign debt crisis in 2009 and forced Ireland to request an EU bailout, French President Nicholas Sarkozy smelled blood. And like...
by Alan Rhode | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was only a matter of time before the United States fired an unequivocal shot across the bowofthe pending European Union Digital Service Tax over objections that the levy is discriminatory and a violation of current...
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