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w*2
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多谢大家了
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Q*n
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iflychina上最晚到24号 想约后一周的
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M*s
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澳大利亚税务局提供给美国国税局三万银行帐号。
中国的也就是个早晚而已。
ATO hands over bank details to US Internal Revenue Service
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/ato-hands-ov
Australia’s tax information exchange agreements have come under challenge
in some jurisdictions, most notably the Cayman Islands. Source: News Corp
Australia
The Australian Taxation Office has handed the US Internal Revenue Service
details of more than 30,000 bank accounts containing more than $5 billion in
the first transfer of information under America’s Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act.
FATCA is part of a network of international arrangements under which revenue
departments around the world have agreed to swap information about each
other’s taxpayers.
The ATO said that in return for supplying the FATCA data, the IRS will give
it information about Australians with US accounts that will be used to root
out undeclared offshore income.
Its figures imply the accounts, revealed to the IRS in the first tranche of
data, have an average balance of more than $160,000.
From 2017, almost 100 countries have agreed to swap information under a
common reporting standard set up by the Paris-based Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development.
FATCA, which brought Australian banks accounts into its net last July, is
designed to root out undisclosed accounts held by Americans around the world.
It was part of a suite of laws introduced in 2010 in response to the global
financial crisis.
The law imposes a steep penalty on institutions anywhere in the world that
fail to give over information in the shape of a 30 per cent withholding tax
on payments to them that come from the US. Australia’s financial sector
complained bitterly about the increased compliance costs imposed by FATCA,
estimated by former Treasurer Joe Hockey to be as high as $1bn over 10 years
, unless the government passed legislation easing their load.
This was because the American reporting requirements contravened Australian
privacy law and because FATCA generally requires each account to be directly
reported to the IRS.
However, Australia’s usually powerful banking sector found itself impotent
in the face of the US’s unilateral action.
Last April, Australia signed a deal with the US under which Australian banks
weren’t required to directly deal with the IRS but instead hand
information over to the ATO — a move that then-Financial Services Council
chief executive John Brogden said would “save hundreds of millions of
dollars in compliance costs”.
The FSC has also expressed concern about increased compliance costs under
the OECD common reporting standard, but yesterday the ATO said it was
committed to the program and “ensuring that taxpayers are disclosing their
offshore income”.
While Australia’s tax information exchange agreements have come under
challenge in some jurisdictions, most notably the Cayman Islands, the ATO
said that last financial year it used them to raise tax bills of $255m.
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s*n
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【 以下文字转载自 Hubei 讨论区 】
发信人: samolangren (沙漠浪人), 信区: Hubei
标 题: 美国驻武汉总领事馆即将开办签证业务
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jun 8 11:57:43 2012, 美东)
美国驻中华人民共和国大使骆家辉
宣布扩大驻武汉美国总领事馆的讲话
美国驻北京大使馆
2012年6月8日
(预备讲稿)
下午好,欢迎来到美国大使馆。作为我们满足对美国签证需求和加强为美国公民服务持
续努力的一部分,今天我很高兴地宣布我们驻武汉总领事馆的大幅扩大,以包括完整的
领事和签证服务。我们预计这次扩大将使我们每年在武汉能够处理高达200,000份的签
证申请,为在中国中部申请美国签证提供更快、更方便的途径。此举也将减少我们驻上
海和广州的领事馆以及驻北京的大使馆的压力,目前中国中部大部分居民的签证面谈要
去以上地方。这种扩大也将使居住在中国中部的美国公民得到更方便的领事服务。
开始在武汉提供领事、签证和美国公民服务的进程一直在进行。4月24日,美国大使馆
正式通知外交部此次扩大。一个小组已被派往武汉,开始了为新领事馆设施确定合适位
置的进程。我们希望此次扩大将于2014年夏天完成。
在中国对美国签证服务的需求持续上升。与2011年同期相比,2012年迄今为止申请数量
增长近45%。尽管签证需求空前高涨,与去年同期的50天以上相比,现在在中国,申请
者平均等待10天以预约一次签证面谈。
扩大在武汉的签证及其他领事服务仅仅是美国赶上这一需求的众多步骤之一。我还要很
高兴地宣布,在北京这里,我们已经重新开放以前空出的光华路上的领事部门,将我们
在北京的签证处理能力提高50%。我们也正从事其他设施的升级和整修项目,包括扩大
我们在上海和成都的领事部门。我们还在考虑在沈阳扩大的可能性。
为了进一步减少等候时间,我们正在中国各地的领事部门中增加总共50个新的领事官职
位。我们还正致力于升级我们的签证预约系统,使其对预约签证面谈的申请者来说变得
更方便容易。
美国驻中国使团致力于在中国提供公平、周到、高效的签证服务,同时维护美国边境的
安全与治安。武汉领事服务的扩大以及全国各地的其他领事部门的新发展,标志着我们
在实现这一承诺上的重要步骤。
谢谢,我将很高兴地回答大家的提问。
链接:http://chinese.usembassy-china.org.cn/locke-expansion-consulate-wuhan.html
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z*h
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of course
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p*r
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mine 11/30 b2
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