02/09/2010 Canada: Medical Exams for Many Long-Term Visitors

Medical examinations are no longer required for most foreign nationals from Mexico and 44 other countries seeking to reside in Canada for more than...

31/08/2010 EC proposals on intra-corporate transferees have no provision for partners to work

European Commission’s proposals on intra-corporate transferees fail to address the needs of working spouses.

31/08/2010 German employers set for new Facebook snooping law

A new law banning companies from using social networking sites like Facebook to vet potential new employees is being mulled over by the German...

30/08/2010 Luxembourg and New Tax Measures Planned

On 30 July 2010, the Luxembourg Minister for Finance proposed a draft law to the Luxembourg Parliament for the introduction as from 2011 of tax...

30/08/2010 HR European news roundup – August 2010

A selection of the latest European HR news from the Federation of European Employers (FedEE). EU: Demographic trends over the next 20 years

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• Indonesia Tax Authorities Renew Compliance Efforts:
  Indonesias Director General of Tax issued Circular Letter No. SE-60/PJ/20101, which instructs each tax office to collect and complete at least 1,000 taxpayers profiles in its database. Once these profiles are collated in the central database, the tax...
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• India and Czech Republic Sign Social Security Agreement:
  India has recently signed a social security agreement SSA with the Czech Republic. The SSA provides for the following benefits, on a reciprocal basis, to Indian nationals working in the Czech Republic. Indian nationals working in the Czech Republic, on a...
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• Argentina Issues Guidance on Withholdings of Individual Income Tax:
  Guidance from the Argentine tax authorities Administracin Federal de Ingresos PblicosAFIP concerns individual income tax. Resolutions 2866 and 2867 published in the official gazette Boletn Oficial de la Repblica Argentina No. 31.941, 12 July 2010 address...
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• UK Warns of Scam Phone Attempts to obtain Tax details:
  The U.K tax authorities HMRC have now issued a warning of attempts to obtain U.K taxpayers personal information by telephone. Scammers and fraudsters are pretending to be HMRC officials and contacting taxpayers regarding a bogus tax rebate and asking...
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• Czech Republics New Form As Per EU Social Security Regs:
  New Regulation EC No. 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council came into force on 1 May 2010, together with implementing Regulation EC No. 987/2009, regarding social security and health insurance of European Union EU citizens migrating...