Compulsory card payment change worries small businesses
Although a positive move, making card payments a compulsory transaction option might create a number of issues for smaller shop owners, their union Povek said...
Tax evasion
Germany buys Dubai data to track possible tax evasion
Germany has bought a trove of data that could help treasury officials track down possible tax evasion by wealthy German citizens, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz...
Cypriot football club linked to tax evasion scheme in Spain (Updated)
Several prominent football agents were reportedly arranging fake transfers through Cypriot football club Apollon Limassol allegedly to launder money and evade taxes, Spanish newspaper El...
Government seeks to bolster tax collection ability (Updated)
The cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill aimed at bolstering the state’s tax collecting ability, including a provision mandating the submission of tax returns by...
Cyprus and UK urged to work together to fight illicit finance
Cyprus and UK should strengthen their partnership in combatting illicit finance, British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie said on Wednesday. At a conference on combatting illicit...
Suspect wanted in Germany for €10m tax evasion flees
A 45-year-old Chinese man arrested in Cyprus last year on a European arrest warrant issued in Germany in connection with tax evasion has apparently fled...
‘Not all doctors are dishonest’ medical association says
Not all doctors are dishonest and under-declare their income to the taxman, while those who do should be found and penalised under the law, the...
Finance minister lists measures to tackle tax evasion
Cyprus is looking to mandate the use of credit card readers in businesses and service providers in an effort to tackle tax evasion, according to...
Damning criticism of Cyprus healthcare in European survey
Cyprus has been excluded from the 2017 Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) because it is the only one of the 35 European countries surveyed...
Mayor puts onus on public to speak out against corruption
Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos urged people on Monday to speak out against corruption, as the rumour mill went in overdrive during the weekend after he...
Georgiades mulls mandatory use of plastic money at kebab shops, surgeries
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said authorities were considering mandating credit card machines at souvlaki shops and doctors’ offices in a bid to clamp down on...
Tax reform: an irresponsible amnesty or eliminating an injustice?
By Christos P. Panayiotides I admit that when I became aware a couple of months ago of Disy, Akel, Edek, the Alliance, the Greens and, at...
Central data ‘warehouse’ will be used to fight tax evasion
The government’s Data Warehouse is a powerful tool for combating tax evasion, fraud and corruption, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Monday. Speaking at a...
Pharisaic face of capitalism
By Hermes Solomon La presencia global de Mossack Fonseca & Co. permitirá que su empresa tenga un impacto en todo el mundo – tenemos una oficina cerca...
Cyprus backs international crackdown on offshore tax evasion
Cyprus is among some 20 countries that have joined a British-led bid to crack down on offshore tax evasion, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne...
British finance minister Osborne publishes 2014/2015 tax record
British finance minister George Osborne published details of his tax records for 2014/15 on Monday, following the lead of Prime Minister David Cameron who on...
Hit by Panama row, Cameron announces new tax evasion law
By Estelle Shirbon and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister David Cameron will try to repair trust in his leadership on Monday by speeding legislation to...
Icelandic leader resigns over Panama Papers revelations
By Kylie MacLellan and Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is to step down after leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed...
Panama lawyer at center of data leak denounces attack on privacy
The head of a Panama-based law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data on Sunday denied any wrongdoing, and said...
Tax evasion and its protectors in high places
By Loucas Charalambous On July 1 President Anastasiades announced that the cabinet had just approved “sweeping tax reforms”. Speaking on the same day before a...