Tax-News.com: Tax inspectors from the Italian Revenue Agency have again taken to making spot checks, this time at Courmayeur, to check whether its shops, restaurants and bars, even those on the ski slopes of Mont Blanc, are issuing the necessary tax receipts.

Tax-News.com: Switzerland’s Federal Council has announced that it does not intend to introduce tax incentives to promote the traditional family model of parents staying at home to look after their children.

Tax-News.com: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, in a recent report on Norway’s fiscal policy, has recommended a comprehensive review of the Norwegian tax regime with respect to capital taxation and its wealth tax.

Tax-News.com: Switzerland’s Federal Council has recently decided to bring the amendment to the Banking Act designed to resolve the ‘too big to fail’ issue into force on March 1, 2012.

Tax-News.com: According to a statement by China’s State Council, after a meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, the government promised to push forward its structural reform programmes, including tax measures, to improve the country’s economic development and improve people’s living standards.

Tax-News.com: According to a statement by China’s State Council, after a meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, the government promised to push forward its structural reform programmes, including tax measures, to improve the country’s economic development and improve people’s living standards.

Tax-News.com: Luxembourg’s Prime Minister and President of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker has underlined his confidence that the Eurogroup will indeed be able to implement all the necessary decisions regarding Greece’s second adjustment programme during its forthcoming meeting on February 20.

Tax-News.com: Leader of Germany’s ruling Christian Social Union Horst Seehofer has recently announced plans to make tax policy a central issue of the upcoming elections in 2013, following the decision by the Social Democrats and the Green Party to reject the coalition government’s tax relief measures...

Tax-News.com: The Isle of Man’s Department of Economic Development has welcomed the coverage received from a recent clean-tech business breakfast where the island’s offerings were represented to an audience of over 140 clean-tech sector investors, professional advisers and businesses.

Tax-News.com: Austria’s Finance Minister Maria Fekter has recently announced that the coalition government has finally united on plans for ‘the largest reform package’ of the Second Republic, designed to consolidate the country’s public finances by a total of EUR26.457bn (USD34.915bn)...