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In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 photo, Indian salaried employees file their income tax papers at an Income Tax office in New Delhi, India. In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth have created tens of thousands of new millionaires annually and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than .01 percent of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers declare earning more than 1,000,000 rupees per year (about $18,000). (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)
In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 photo, Indian salaried employees file their income tax papers at an Income Tax office in New Delhi, India. In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth have created tens of thousands of new millionaires annually and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than .01 percent of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers declare earning more than 1,000,000 rupees per year (about $18,000). (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)
In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 photo, Indian salaried employees file their income tax papers at an Income Tax office in New Delhi, India. In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth have created tens of thousands of new millionaires annually and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than .01 percent of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers declare earning more than 1,000,000 rupees per year (about $18,000). (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
In this Monday, March 25, 2013 photo, an Indian taxpayer waits outside a help center set up for salaried employees and pensioners at an Income Tax office in Bangalore, India. In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth have created tens of thousands of new millionaires annually and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than .01 percent of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers declare earning more than 1,000,000 rupees per year (about $18,000). (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 photo, Indians stand in a queue to file tax papers at an Income Tax office in Mumbai, India. In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth have created tens of thousands of new millionaires annually and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than .01 percent of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers declare earning more than 1,000,000 rupees per year (about $18,000). (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 photo, shoppers walk inside a swanky mall in New Delhi, India. In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth have created tens of thousands of new millionaires annually and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than .01 percent of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers declare earning more than 1,000,000 rupees per year (about $18,000). (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)
NEW DELHI (AP) ? In a country long defined by its poverty, it's easy now to find India's rich.
They're at New Delhi's Emporio mall, where herds of chauffeur-driven Jaguars and Audis disgorge shoppers heading to the Louis Vuitton and Christian Louboutin stores. They're shopping for Lamborghinis in Mumbai. They're putting elevators in their homes and showing off collections of jewel-encrusted watches in Indian luxury magazines. They're buying real estate in comfortable but unpretentious neighborhoods ? neighborhoods thought of as simply upper-middle-class just a couple years ago ? where apartments now regularly sell for millions of dollars.
They're just about everywhere. Unless it's income tax time. Then, suddenly, they barely exist.
The reality is simple: "There are very few people who are paying taxes," said Sonu Iyer, a tax expert at Ernst & Young in New Delhi. And tax dodging is everywhere. "It's rampant ? rampant."
If the generalities of that have long been known here, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram stunned the country in late February when he proposed a new tax on India's top earners. The surprise wasn't the temporary 10 percent surcharge on those earning more than 10,000,000 rupees, or about $185,000, per year, but the number of Indians who fall into that category.
That number? Just 42,800 people.
"Let me repeat," Chidambaram told Parliament in his budget speech, making sure no one thought he had misspoken, "only 42,800" people say they earn that much.
In a country of 1.2 billion people, a country where years of staggering economic growth annually create tens of thousands of new millionaires and a recent slowdown has done little damage to a thriving luxury goods market, far less than one ten-thousandth of the population admits they are in the top tax bracket.
With so few Indians willing to come clean, the perennially cashed-starved government has to scrabble every year for revenue.
Among the rich, dodging taxes has become second nature, said Jamal Mecklai, CEO of Mecklai Financial, a Mumbai-based financial consulting firm. About 158,000 Indians are thought to be dollar millionaires, according to a 2012 Credit Suisse estimate, though some analysts believe the number is far higher.
"It's just taken as the reality" that most wealthy Indians are cheating, he said, adding that he pays everything he owes. India's top tax rate is currently 30 percent.
But it's not just the rich evading their taxes. Less than 3 percent of Indians file income tax returns at all, and officials say only about 1.5 million taxpayers say they earn more than 1,000,000 rupees per year, or about $18,000.
Most of those not paying have legitimate reasons. Well over half the population earns so little they don't have to pay income taxes. Despite its ever-growing population of nouveau riche, more than 400 million Indians still live below the poverty line.
Millions more people are exempt because regulations exclude agricultural income from taxes, no matter how much is earned. Since India has hundreds of millions of small farmers, and a powerful bloc of wealthy farmers, that's a tax break few politicians dare challenge. Various other tax breaks legally keep many more people off the tax rolls.
The bulk of those paying income taxes, experts say, are salaried employees whose companies are responsible for making their tax payments. While those taxpayers can fudge their numbers to an extent, using inflated receipts to magnify tax breaks on expenses like housing, it's extremely difficult for them to completely escape tax authorities.
But most everyone else ? from the barons of family-owned businesses to doctors, lawyers and small traders ? operate in largely cash economies that enable them, if they want, to hide most of their income.
The size of India's underground economy and the amount of lost taxes is widely debated, but even the lowball figures are immense in a country with a nearly $2 trillion GDP. In recent studies, experts estimated that anywhere from 17 percent to 42 percent of the economy operates beneath the official radar.
Billions of dollars are widely thought to be hidden in Switzerland, Singapore and other tax havens.
Then there is the strange case of Mauritius. More than 40 percent of foreign direct investment in India comes through this tiny island in the Indian Ocean. In part, that statistic reflects an India-Mauritius tax treaty that legally eases the flow of investment funds into India. But, experts say, it also allows Indians to launder vast amounts of untaxed wealth by sending their illegal cash to Mauritius, then "round-tripping" it back to India in the form of legal investments.
If it would take concerted effort to shut down complex, international money-laundering operations, catching at least some of India's high-end tax dodgers should be ridiculously simple. This is, after all, a country where flaunted wealth often seems as common as traffic jams.
How about targeting the buyers of the 25,000 luxury cars sold last year in India? Or the buyers and sellers of big-budget apartments? What about the people racking up thousands of dollars a month in credit card bills? Maybe tax investigators could go to those high-end malls, looking to see who is buying all the expensive shoes.
While the government says it recently has begun targeting some big spenders, mailing notices to tens of thousands of people they say may have underpaid their taxes, few believe officials have truly become aggressive.
"It's not really that difficult to chase down the tax dodgers," said Mecklai, the consulting firm CEO. "It's just a matter of putting the machinery in place."
So why isn't the government doing that?
The answers range from sheer incompetence to corrupt tax bureaucrats to a political class accustomed to making vast wealth on the side, and unlikely to do anything that might jeopardize its ill-gotten gains.
Certainly the Indian public sees official corruption as a major part of the equation.
"Of course I don't pay all my taxes," said a New Delhi businessman who spoke on condition he not be named because he was admitting to breaking the law. "Why should I pay my taxes while the politicians are getting richer and richer every day?"
Such talk is, experts say, the most commonly heard rationale for tax evasion, one entrenched by decades of political corruption and waves of official scandals.
But it doesn't explain everything. Iyer, the Ernst & Young tax expert, notes that the culture of tax-avoidance runs deep in India. She points particularly to the way buyers and sellers of real estate openly discuss how much of the price will be paid in "white" declared money, and how much will be paid under the table in "black."
"No one thinks of it as something to be ashamed about," she said. "In a country of holier-than-thou's, no one thinks that it's a blatant lie" to cheat on your taxes.
Embarrassment, she said, may be what India needs most of all.
"The moment this society establishes a stigma to it, I think you'd see a change."
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Immigration debate WASHINGTON - Business and labor leaders reached an agreement late Friday night on a guest worker program for low-skilled immigrants, a senior Democratic Senate aide tells ABC News, marking a key moment in the immigration debate.
The agreement involves the guest worker provision for low-skilled immigrants, which is one of the most critical pieces of the legislation. The accord between the Chamber of Commerce and the A.F.L.-C.I.O marks the first time the dueling sides have come together around the size and scope of the guest worker program.
"This issue has always been the dealbreaker on immigration reform, but not this time," Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a statement Saturday night.
Schumer, D-N.Y., one of the leading Senate negotiators on the agreement, briefed White House chief of staff Denis McDonough on the deal this afternoon, ABC News has learned.
"We are very close, closer than we've ever been," he said. "We are very optimistic, but there are a few issues remaining."
The agreement between business and labor was reached shortly after 9 p.m. Friday, when Schumer convened a conference call with the top labor leader, Richard Trumka, and the chamber head, Tom Donohue. The three agreed to have dinner soon to commemorate the accord, one official tells ABC news.
The sticking point in earlier negotiations centered on determining pay levels for future immigrant workers coming to the country on new visas. The unions wanted employers to pay an average wage for occupations rather than assigning salary by skill levels, while the business side called for paying low skilled workers at the lowest rate.
The guest worker deal reached by business and labor will now be presented to the bi-partisan Gang of Eight senators involved in the immigration talks. The senators are also working on fine tuning the path to citizenship and border security components of the plan.
"Senate negotiators are making good progress on immigration reform, but we're not done yet," Alex Conant, a spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted today.
While the group of senators works on the details of the immigration plan, President Obama said this week that he is optimistic the group will produce a bill in April.
"I'm actually optimistic that when they get back they will introduce a bill," Obama said during an interview with Univision earlier this week. "My sense is that they have come close and my expectation is that we'll actually see a bill on the floor of the Senate next month."
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AMD gave us a tease of its next-generation Steamroller architecture in 2012, but things weren't looking good for pro users when the initial timeline had current-generation Piledriver technology as the focus for Opterons in 2013. Thanks to a newer investor presentation, there's a glimmer of hope for the workstation and server users among us. Its roadmap shows Steamroller-equipped Opteron variants arriving this year, with an Excavator follow-up coming at an undetermined point in the future. There's nothing about specific timelines and models, as you might imagine -- AMD isn't going to spoil its plans quite so readily -- but the presentation reminds us that Steamroller will put an emphasis on the parallelism that's oh so vital to high-end computing. We're mostly glad to hear that IT backrooms will have something genuinely new to play with while we're off enjoying its Kaveri counterpart at home.
Via: X-bit Labs, TechEye
Source: AMD (PDF)
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/6RiFyImCoqA/
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus plans to lift a ban on casinos and offer firms tax exemptions on profits reinvested on the island under a package of reforms to kickstart its ailing economy, its president said on Monday.
The country's euro zone partners agreed on a 10 billion euro rescue package last Monday after weeks of tense negotiations that showed the debt crisis racking the 17-nation currency union is far from over.
The tough terms of the deal look set to deepen the island's recession, shrink its banking sector and lead to thousands of job losses, while the capital controls imposed to prevent a run on Cypriot banks may test the ties that bind the single-currency bloc as a whole.
President Nicos Anastasiades, who briefed ministers on the economy at an informal meeting on Monday, said the 12-point growth plan would be put to the cabinet for approval within the next 15 days.
The program includes measures to attract foreign investment to the island - a hub for offshore finance - as well as tax exemptions on business profits reinvested there, and the easing of payment terms and interest rates on loans.
With about 68 billion euros in its banks, Cyprus has a vastly outsized financial system that attracted deposits from abroad, especially Russia.
In a bid to attract more tourists to the south of the island, it also hopes to lift a ban on casinos, which so far only operate legally in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus.
Speaking to reporters after a memorial service to commemorate the 1955 armed campaign against British rule, Anastasiades said the government would focus on "growth and incentives for growth."
Cyprus's bailout is the first to impose steep losses on depositors with more than 100,000 euros in their accounts, and is expected to hit business activity especially hard.
Asked to make a forecast on the likely depth of recession Cyprus faces, government spokesman Christos Stylianides said: "It's not possible at this time to put numbers on the recession."
"The government, having inherited an atomic bomb, tried to deactivate it and in doing so spared this country from total bankruptcy. It is now dealing with a post-earthquake period with the aim to kickstart the economy," he said.
Stylianides said the cabinet discussed pending issues in the country's negotiations with its international lenders relating to the financial sector, fiscal adjustment measures, structural measures in the public sector and energy issues.
He said Anastasiades would also chair a meeting of party leaders at 1800 GMT (2 p.m. ET) on Monday to brief them on the matter.
Under the bailout deal, major depositors in Cyprus's biggest lender, Bank of Cyprus, will lose around 60 percent of savings above 100,000 euros.
The country's banks reopened on Thursday after a nearly two-week hiatus aimed at averting a bank run, but the ripple effect of their closure is likely to strangle business on the island for a long time to come.
There are also concerns that depositors in other struggling euro zone nations could take fright at the conditions imposed on Cyprus, although there have been no signs of bank runs.
The capital controls imposed on the country raise questions about the long-term viability of the euro.
There is also the risk that euros on the island may be valued differently to those in the rest of the bloc due to them being less liquid as a result of the controls.
Anastasiades has defended the rescue deal as painful but essential, saying that without it, Cyprus had faced certain banking collapse and risked becoming the first country to be pushed out of the European single currency.
(Reporting by Karolina Tagaris; Editing by John Stonestreet)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cyprus-plans-tax-breaks-casinos-kickstart-economy-122651032--business.html
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