To get people reading, Denmark to end book taxDenmark's government, concerned about a growing "reading crisis," plans to eliminate the 25-percent sales tax on books, currently the highe...
20 Aug, 2025, 02.29 PM IST
Sweden invented flight shaming. Now it wants to axe the tax and lure airlines backSweden has removed its air travel tax. This decision aims to boost the struggling aviation industry. Air traffic had declined significantly...
01 Jul, 2025, 05.56 PM IST
Tesla registrations in Denmark fall 61.6% year-on-year in JuneTesla's new car registrations in Denmark dropped by 61.57% in June compared to the same month last year, falling to 1,282 vehicles, accordi...
01 Jul, 2025, 01.25 PM IST
Why Denmark is taxing the burps, poops, and farts of pigs and cowsDenmark introduces a groundbreaking tax on cow and pig emissions. The tax aims to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Farmers will rec...
28 Nov, 2024, 12.27 PM IST
Denmark will be first to impose CO2 tax on farms, government saysA tax was first proposed in February by government-commissioned experts to help Denmark reach a legally binding 2030 target of cutting gree...
26 Jun, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
Dubai court orders man to pay $1.25 billion to Denmark in tax caseThe order by the Dubai Court of Appeal against Sanjay Shah comes as part of a civil case filed four years ago by Denmark's tax authority, w...
16 Sep, 2022, 01.37 PM IST
Arun Jaitley embarks on 4-day visit to Paris, to sign OECD tax pactJaitley will deliver the keynote address at the OECD meeting tomorrow and participate in a panel discussion on 'Stocktaking on Globalisatio...
06 Jun, 2017, 05.43 PM IST
Denmark is killing Tesla and other electric carsSales in Denmark of Electrically Chargeable Vehicles (ECV), which include plug-in hybrids, plunged 60.5% in the first quarter of the year, ...
03 Jun, 2017, 11.32 AM IST
Cost reimbursed by Indian agents for utilizing global telecommunication facility not taxable: SCSupreme Court held that payments received by taxpayer towards reimbursement of costs could not be termed as fees for technical services
10 Mar, 2017, 07.33 PM IST
How Budget can make taxpayers happy...without cutting ratesCompared to what some other countries have done, lots more can be done to make tax payments easier and may be even rewarding.
30 Jan, 2017, 11.24 AM IST
This is how Scandinavia is making money vanishA June report by the Danish central bank found that the cost of handling cash is more than double that of handling domestic debit card paym...
16 Dec, 2016, 03.50 PM IST
Top 10 highest tax paying countries in 2015Tax rates keep on rising annually, and are purposed to indirectly benefit a country's citizens. These are the 10 highest tax paying countri...
26 Jul, 2015, 11.04 AM IST
Black money: India gets 24,000 pieces of secret foreign dataThese cases are now under investigation by the taxman even as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money has set its eye on tracki...
10 Aug, 2014, 12.16 PM IST
- Denmark, Finland give information on 1,500 transactions by Indians
India has received information on about 1,500 transactions from Denmark and Finland under Double Tax Avoidance Agreements with these countr...
30 Nov, 2011, 09.46 AM IST
- Global Pharma looks to India for pain relief
With the global pharma companies cutting back on costs, letting go of people and shutting down plants in large markets, the crisis is palpa...
08 Jan, 2009, 12.00 AM IST
- The green pseudo-revolution
With worldwide recession advancing, strong action on global warming has been thrown into jeopardy.
25 Nov, 2008, 12.11 AM IST
- Indian employees are highest tax payers in Asia: Report
Indian employees take a deduction of as much as 29.1% from their gross salary, against just 5% in the UAE, states a Mercer report. Cut tax ...
19 Nov, 2007, 08.35 PM IST