TEHRAN, December 06 -The French prime minister says the country’s government has entirely abandoned a fuel tax hike that was previously suspended for six months amid fear of more protests.
TEHRAN, December 04 -The French government is preparing to suspend fuel tax increases after weeks of sometimes violent protests, a government source said on Tuesday, in what would mark a major U-turn by President Emmanuel Macron after 18 months in office.
TEHRAN, December 04 - French media say Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will announce a suspension of fuel tax hikes in an effort to appease a protest movement that has radicalized.
TEHRAN, December 03 - Germany and France will on Monday seek to revive the long-delayed EU financial transaction tax by proposing that member states be allowed to use the revenues to reduce their EU budget contributions, a German newspaper reported.
TEHRAN, December 02 - Paris saw its worst unrest in a decade on Saturday when thousands of masked protesters fought running battles with police, torched cars, set fires to banks and houses, and burned makeshift barricades on the fringes of demonstrations against fuel tax .
TEHRAN, December 02 - Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, torching cars and buildings, looting shops, smashing windows and clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
TEHRAN, November 18 - A protester was killed and more than 220 injured as tens of thousands of people walked out to roads across France to rally a "yellow vest" protest against high fuel prices.
TEHRAN, November 17 - Unions and political parties have used social networks to call for mass protest throughout France against the rising price of petrol.
TEHRAN, November 12 -German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said he favors getting a binding deal on a European Union digital tax at a meeting of EU finance ministers in December and that he supported the French model.
TEHRAN, October 31 - Federico Zerboni gazes out from his 4x4 as it rumbles across the pampas, fertile fields of rapeseed and soybean visible as far as the eye can see.
TEHRAN, October 14 - A Friday report by New York Times stated that Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, reportedly paid little or no federal income tax es for seven years, between 2009-2016.
TEHRAN, October 03 -The New York State Tax Department is reviewing allegations in a New York Times report that President Donald Trump illegally received millions of dollars from his father Fred Trump through tax fraud.
TEHRAN, September 09 - American multinational technology company Apple Inc. recently claimed that the Trump administration’s proposed US tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods imported on China will increase the prices on some of its products, including the Apple Watch and its AirPods.
TEHRAN, September 06 - The Trump administration may be about to slap tariffs of up to 25 percent on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, escalating a confrontation between the world's two biggest economies and likely squeezing U.S. companies that import everything from handbags to bicycle tires.
TEHRAN, September 06 - Tilak Raj Bathla's tiny weaving factory is one of the few still humming on a once busy road in the northern Indian city of Panipat, known as the country's "textile city".
TEHRAN, August 5 - Hundreds of protesters have rallied outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA), calling for stricter gun-control measures and a change to the powerful gun lobby’s tax -exempt status.
TEHRAN, June 28 - Korean Air Lines Chairman Cho Yang-ho appeared on Thursday at the prosecutor's office for questioning over allegations of tax evasion and other financial crimes, as South Korea's family-owned conglomerates face growing scrutiny.
TEHRAN, June 19 - Malaysia could extend new tax incentives for foreign investment in areas such as technology if companies promise to create better-paid jobs for Malaysians, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad works at his office