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Antoine Deltour, the former PwC auditor who leaked thousands of the company’s documents into the public domain has been charged with a string of offences including theft.

European Commission vice president for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip says that last-minute concerns about the EU VAT changes “should be listened to”.

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Upper Klass: Nobody is getting the violins out for Myleene A mansion tax proposed by the UK's opposition Labour Party, which would bill the owners of homes worth more than £2 million each year ($3.1 million) has caused a kerfuffle in the UK this month, with those likely to pay it queuing up to say what a bad idea it is. Former Arsenal and England footballer Sol Campbell (worth $51 million) and film star Angelina Jolie ($270 million) have both spoken out against the proposed tax, but it is classically-trained violinist, former girl-band member and fashion designer Myleene Klass who grabbed the public's attention after clashing with Labour leader Ed Miliband on live television.

The ladies of Spanish theatre group Primas de Riesgo have found a clever way to bypass their conservative government's tax on the arts.

Lonely hearts set to be hit with singles tax in Korea? What's more taxing than having to explain to your mum when you go home for Christmas why you're still single? If you live in Korea, it could be getting taxed just for being single. A health and welfare ministry official claimed a singles tax could help encourage Koreans to shack up and produce more offspring. The country has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and wants to encourage citizens to reproduce.

"If I had been chief secretary and after all this time I hadn't found the key to the fridge I wouldn't tell people"

George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, presents his final Autumn Statement next week, before the general election on May 7 2015. The tax focus will be on maintaining UK competitiveness through policy that creates a business-friendly environment.

Though base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) took the front seat during meetings between global leaders on November 15 and 16 at the G20 forum, country leaders also expressed concern over the taxation of intellectual property (IP). Patent box regimes in particular were mentioned as a method used by large corporations to exploit tax incentives.

On November 23 China’s Xinhua News, a state-run media company, ran a story on what it calls the “first major Chinese anti-avoidance case”. An American-headquartered corporation has admitted guilt for evading Chinese taxes and will pay the Chinese authorities 840 million yuan ($137 million).