RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian iron ore miner Vale is confident it will win a dispute over taxes the government claims the company owes on earnings abroad, CEO Murilo Ferreira said on Friday. The government has ordered Vale to pay 30.5 billion reais ($15.19 billion) in tax on profits ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank of New York Mellon Corp faced off against the U.S. government on Thursday in closing arguments over a $900 million tax benefit that the Internal Revenue Service called "tax abuse." The case is the first to go to trial since the IRS accused some banks of ...

Only a few days have passed since the general elections, but the Greek state already feels it in its coffers: some Greek citizens are responding to the high uncertainty and deferring tax payments.

Germany says it expects its tax income over the next few years to be slightly higher than previously predicted due to a healthy job market and rising personal incomes.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's highest court suspended on Wednesday the payment of about 24 billion reais ($12.4 billion) in back taxes by mining company Vale , handing the world's largest iron ore producer a temporary victory in a dispute with the government. Justice Marco Aurélio de Mello at the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The controller of the Empire State Building has offered investors the opportunity to sell some of their shares and relieve some of the expected tax burden if a proposed initial public offering is approved before the end of the year, according to a federal filing on ...

HSBC Holdings PLC saw its first-quarter net profits fall by 38 percent after a larger tax bill and higher insurance claims and liabilities.

Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze up at his city's Ivy League campus to see a way out of the morass.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank Pictet said on Sunday it handed over bank account details to U.S. authorities probing cases of tax evasion, as a newspaper reported it had accepted funds from two former UBS clients suspected of having cheated on taxes. Pictet said in a statement the data handover ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Whatever its intentions in cracking down on abuse of tax havens, India has alienated overseas investors with the timing and communication of its measures when it can ill afford to do so. India's move to target tax evaders through a general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), along with a ...