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The ECB claims to have no "investigative capacity" on money laundering He is in charge of the supervision of the big banks since 2014   The banking supervisor in the euro zone, reporting to the European Central Bank (ECB), recalled on Thursday that "it has no investigative capacity" in the matter of money laundering, nine days after the US accusations against a Latvian bank, under surveillance. "Violations of money laundering can be symptomatic of deeper deficiencies in bank operations, but the ECB does not have the capacity to investigate these deficiencies," said Danièle Nouy, ​​president of the single supervisor (MUS), within of the European Central Bank, in a press release. "It is the work of the national authorities in the fight against money laundering," added the French leader. The MUS communiqué does not mention the recent accusations of money laundering against the third Latvian bank, the ABLV. Lately, the press has emphasi...

The creation of a temporary levy, a complex measure It could be included in the recommendations of the OECD, but the experts are committed to advancing the common tax base in Societies in the EU   Finding a global solution for technology multinationals to pay where they generate the benefits is taking the first steps at the level of the OECD or the G20. However, solving this problem involves coordinating a series of measures that are still far from occurring. For that reason, some countries, including Spain, want to act before. And it is in this framework that the possibility of establishing a temporary tax for the operations of these companies is framed. A measure that could be contemplated in the report that the OECD will advance in March to the G20, as explained last week by the president of the Global Transparency Forum of the OECD and deputy general director of International Taxation of the Tax Agency. María José Garde. A taxation that the Minister of Finance, Cri...

The confusions that make the income statement shake Although the mobile application, available since Thursday, streamlines the procedures, it is advisable to analyze all the data of the IRPF to avoid future problems   The Treasury has given a new twist in the processing of income tax to streamline the presentation of income tax. For the first time, the Tax Agency makes available to the taxpayer a mobile application from which you can find out about your fiscal data for 2017. The 'app' will be active from this Thursday, day 15, although it will not be until April 4 when Start the Rent Campaign, with the presentation of the settlements, until the end of June.   The technological initiative can be a double-edged sword for those who do not adequately review the income, deductions, withholdings and other circumstances included in its liquidation. The rush to present the IRPF and collect as soon as possible the return - if this is up to the citizen - or the difficulty w...

Courts again check the municipal value added tax A judgment also annuls this tax for cases in which there were profits in the sale, while the Congress already processed the tax reform   The courts have once again put the municipal surplus tax in check. Last May the Constitutional Court considered that the tax should not be applied to cases in which there were losses in the sale of the property and annulled several articles. However, now a ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra has ruled that this tax should not be applied when there have been benefits in the transmission. Of course, qualifies that adheres to those cases settled after the annulment of the Constitutional or earlier in what taxpayers have open a claim. We must bear in mind that this new ruling affects Navarre's statutory regulations, which were also annulled by the Constitutional as the state. However, it opens a path that could be replicated in other cases affected by the general regulations....

Catalonia, the community with the highest IRPF for medium and low incomes It is also the one with the most taxes of its own, almost a fifth of the total, but only collects 3.2%, one point more than the national average   The fiscal whip of the Catalan Government has turned this territory into the worst in Spain, in terms of tax pressure, for the weakest strata of the population that, at the same time, are the majority. It has the highest rates in the country in the income tax (IRPF) for the average and low incomes, that is, below an annual income of 30,000 euros and up to 16,000 euros - who earns less than 12,000 is exempt throughout the country-.   This is reflected in the annual report on regional and regional taxation presented this Monday by the Register of Economists and Tax Advisors (REAF) which, in general, places Catalonia with a high personal income tax in virtually all of its income brackets. However, between 45,000 and 70,000 euros per year the one that ...

Miguel Blesa appears in an offshore company that appears in the papers of Panama The company in which the former president of Caja Madrid appears as a proxy, Danforth Investment, was created in 1989 in the British Virgin Islands, considered a tax haven   The ex-president of Caja Madrid Miguel Blesa appears linked to the so-called Panama papers because of his relationship with an offshore company, as revealed on Saturday by La Sexta and El Confidencial.   Blesa, who chaired the Madrid box for a decade, "had a power in a company created with Mossack Fonseca that was used to set up a company and make significant investments in Spain," according to El Confidencial, which has participated together with the Sixth the research of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Süddeustche Zeitung. The company in which Blesa appears as an attorney, Danforth Investment, was created in 1989 in the British Virgin Islands, conside...