Buying medicine at a drugstore can now save you taxes. On Jan. 1, the "self-medication tax deduction" system kicked off, allowing people who buy designated over-the-counter (OTC) drugs to apply for a tax refund. The move, intended to promote use of OTC drugs and discourage ...
President Donald Trump's "wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border will be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) internal report seen ...
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to announce the most ambitious tax reform plan since the Reagan era in the next few weeks, the White House said on Thursday, sending stock prices and the dollar higher on hopes for a cut in corporate tax rates. In ...
Limits on cash withdrawals will be removed entirely from March 13, India's central bank said Wednesday, as it left interest rates on hold for the second time since a ban on high-value rupee notes. The Reserve Bank of India capped cash withdrawals after Prime Minister ...
The city of Tokushima has attracted a record amount of donations after it added anime posters to the list of goods handed out when people contribute to the furusato nozei (hometown tax deduction) system. The posters, made every year since 2009 by local anime production ...
A proposed U.S. corporate tax reform would almost certainly contravene international trade rules if implemented, lawyers have said, risking the biggest dispute in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With signs growing that the United States may become more protectionist under President Donald ...
Japan says it is paying close attention to the spat between the Trump administration and Mexico because it could affect some of its biggest firms.
President Donald Trump's vow to accelerate construction of a "contiguous, physical wall" along the Mexican border is slamming into a Washington reality — who is going to pay for it and how? Not us, say the Mexicans. Instead, U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill, starting with ...
Seven candidates will run in next month's French left-wing primaries seeking to win the nomination for next year's presidential election, the organizers said on Saturday. With President Francois Hollande having said this month that he would not seek re-election, his former prime minister Manuel Valls ...
The government is considering raising the amount of tax grants to local governments for the first time in seven years in fiscal 2017 starting next April, informed sources said. The central government plans to boost the amount of grants by nearly ¥300 billion from the ...
Experts answer readers' queries about the overseas assets reporting law aimed at taxing wealth held outside Japan.
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would make tax reform and trade pact overhauls top priorities in order to achieve a sustained pace of 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth. The one-time Goldman Sachs ...
