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Five companies with the most overseas cash are all in the tech sector.

It looks like the fight between Ireland, Apple, and the EU is only set to escalate -- Ireland is prepared to bring that fight to EU courts. An order from the European Commission states Ireland charge Apple $14.5 billion in back taxes.

The Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) announced Wednesday that Keith David Lawson from Burnaby, B.C., was sentenced Oct. 31 in B.C. Supreme Court to 18 months in jail. As a result, he evaded $18,036 in federal income taxes, the CRA said in a statement. Lawson was an "educator" with Paradigm, a tax protester group.

The province introduced legislation Tuesday that would allow Halifax Regional Municipality to have more flexibility in how it determines commercial property taxes, which is welcome news to some people in the city's north end business community. The amendments to the city's charter would allow council to designate tax rates …

The 2005 tax deal that gave Canaport LNG property owner Irving Oil Ltd. a 90 per cent discount on its property tax bill until 2030 will be repealed effective next year. Gallant says the new legislation will be introduced in November and is being drafted at the request of Saint John city council and with the consent of …

Yukon Party leader Darrell Pasloski says he doesn't need a study to tell him the carbon tax is bad for Yukoners. Altogether that will reduce the Yukon government's greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent, Pasloski said. "The carbon tax will have almost no measurable impact on the price of goods (and zero impact of the …

"Women are spending more in general and we make less, so we deserve to have a break."

Doug Lisqum says his life was horrible before he voluntarily handed over his finances to Family Services Windsor-Essex. Families, in particular, are at risk of missing out on thousands of dollars in benefits and credits that are only accessed by completing a tax return. Lisqum has filed his income tax since he was 16, …

After not filing her income taxes for three years, Janet Smith is struggling to find all the paperwork she needs to send to the Canada Revenue Agency. "To me, if we have one family in Alberta that hasn't filed their taxes for 2015, we got to to get them to file it or else shame on us," said Savoia. "If every poor family …

P.E.I. is not going to be rushed into deciding how it will reduce carbon emissions, Premier Wade MacLauchlan said Tuesday, responding to federal demands that the provinces come up with concrete plans to reduce carbon pollution by the end of 2017.

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After Donald Trump suggested at the presidential debate last week that foreign countries’ value-added tax, or VAT, amounts to a tariff on American companies, the idea appeared, briefly, to gain steam. “When we sell into Mexico, there’s a tax—automatic, 16 percent, approximately,” Trump said Monday. “When they sell to us, …

Donald Trump may have been able to pay no federal income tax for more than a decade, according to a leaked partial tax return obtained by the New York Times. Sections of the 1995 tax returns sent anonymously through the mail and confirmed by Trump’s personal accountant show that Trump’s losses in Atlantic City casino…

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Google's Jakarta office has been raided by Indonesian authorities after a warning was issued when the company refused a tax audit. According to Indonesian authorities, Google could owe as much as five years' worth of back taxes.

The City of Vancouver is seeking public input on a proposed tax on empty homes. It's asking residents to complete an online survey about the tax, which is intended to encourage owners to rent out their secondary properties rather than leave them empty. The survey asks respondents what they think of the particulars of …