Showing posts with label world economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world economy. Show all posts

Monday, May 23, 2016

Jarl Moe Entrepreneur Thoughts About Mastermind Group

Jarl Moe believes in the power of a Mastermind Group. It is a matter of general information that Mr. Portage, Mr. Edison and Mr. Firestone are close individual companions, and have been so for a long time; that in previous years they were in the propensity for leaving to the forested areas once per year for a time of rest, reflection and recovery.

However, it is not for the most part known-it is a grave uncertainty if these three men themselves know it-that there exists between the three men an obligation of concordance which has brought about their psyches to end up mixed into a "Driving force" which is the genuine wellspring of the force of each. This mass personality, becoming out of the co-appointment of the individual personalities of Ford, Edison and Firestone, has empowered these men to "tune in" on powers (and wellsprings of learning) with which most men are to no degree commonplace.

In the event that the understudy questions either the guideline or the impacts here portrayed, let him recall that more than a large portion of the hypothesis here put forward is a known reality. For instance, it is realized that these three men have extraordinary force. It is realized that they are affluent. It is realized that they started without capital and with yet small tutoring. It is realized that they frame intermittent personality contacts. It is realized that they are amicable and well disposed. It is realized that their accomplishments are so extraordinary as to make it difficult to contrast these accomplishments and those of other men in their particular fields of movement.

All these "impacts" are known not each school-kid in the humanized world, along these lines there can be no question similarly as impacts are concerned according to Jarl Moe.

Of one reality associated with the reason for the accomplishments of Edison, Ford and Firestone we perhaps beyond any doubt, in particular, that these accomplishments were not the slightest bit based upon dishonesty, duplicity, the "extraordinary" or alleged "disclosures" or whatever other type of unnatural law. These men don't have a supply of legerdemain. They work with common laws; laws which, generally, are understood to all financial analysts and pioneers in the field of science, with the conceivable special case of the law whereupon science of the brain is based. So far science of the psyche is not adequately created to be classed, by investigative men, in their index of known laws.

A "Brains" might be made by any gathering of individuals who will co-ordinate their psyches, in a soul of flawless amicability. The gathering may comprise of any number from two upward. Best results seem accessible from the mixing of six or seven personalities.

It has been proposed that Jesus Christ found how to make utilization of the rule of brain science, and that His apparently marvelous exhibitions became out of the force He created through the mixing of the psyches of His twelve followers. It has been called attention to that when one of the pupils (Judas Iscariot) broke confidence the "Driving force" promptly crumbled and Jesus met with the preeminent calamity of His life.

Whenever two or more individuals fit their psyches and produce the impact known as a "Genius," every individual in the gathering gets to be vested with the ability to contact with and assemble information through the "inner mind" brains of the various individuals from the gathering. This force turns out to be quickly recognizable, having the impact of invigorating the brain to a higher rate of vibration, and generally proving itself as a more distinctive creative energy and the awareness of what seems, by all accounts, to be an intuition. It is through this intuition that new thoughts will "streak" into the brain. These thoughts interpretation of the nature and type of the subject overwhelming the brain of the person. On the off chance that the whole gathering has met with the end goal of talking about a given subject, thoughts worried that subject will come filling the psyches of all present, as though an outside impact were directing them. The brains of those taking an interest in the "Genius" get to be as magnets, drawing in thoughts and thought jolts about the most profoundly composed and viable nature, from nobody knows where! Laughs Jarl Moe.

The procedure of psyche mixing here depicted as a "Genius" might be compared to the demonstration of one who associates numerous electric batteries to a solitary transmission wire, in this way "venturing up" the force streaming over that line. Every battery included expansions the force disregarding that line by the measure of vitality the battery conveys. Only so on account of mixing individual personalities into a "Driving force." Each psyche, through the rule of brain science, empowers the various personalities in the gathering, until the psyche vitality hence turns out to be great to the point that it enters to and interfaces with the widespread vitality known as ether, which, thusly, touches each iota of the whole universe.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Jarl Moe Tax Seminar Live On Stage

Check out one of the many videos you can find on Jarl Moe On Stage. 
The below seminar was taken in London in front of around 1,500 people.





Wednesday, March 9, 2011

China Adding to $1 Trillion of U.S. Debt Caps Rise in Rates

China Adding to $1 Trillion of U.S. Debt Caps Rise in Rates
Investors outside the U.S. have boosted their holdings of longer-maturity Treasuries to the highest level since the credit markets froze in 2008, helping curb rising yields amid concern inflation is accelerating.

International buyers held 90 percent of their $4.44 trillion of U.S. government debt in notes and bonds as of December, the same as in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed, Treasury data released last week show. The ratio fell to 83 percent in October 2009 as investors sought the safety of Treasury bills with the U.S. economic recovery still in question.

The shift toward long-term debt shows bond buyers outside the U.S. agree with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s assessment that inflation will be contained even as global food and energy prices soar. Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., warned last week that yields on Treasuries are too low with inflation accelerating and the central bank planning to complete $600 billion in asset purchases in June.

“Inflation in the U.S. isn’t a big problem,” said Zeal Yin, who buys Treasuries for Shin Kong Life Insurance Co. in Taipei, Taiwan’s second-largest life insurer with the equivalent of $50.6 billion in assets. Yin said he purchased U.S. government debt last week. “I’m bullish.”

Stocks Beat Bonds
The yield on the benchmark 3.625 percent note due February 2021 rose eight basis points, or 0.08 percentage point, to 3.49 percent last week, and climbed two basis points to 3.51 percent at 11 a.m. in New York, according to BGCantor Market Data.

Ten-year yields increased in each of the past six months, the longest stretch since the period ended June 2006, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. U.S. government securities have lost 0.4 percent this year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s U.S. Treasury Master index. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index has climbed 5.1 percent during the same period as confidence in the economic recovery grows.

“We increased the portion of foreign-currency-denominated bonds, mainly Treasuries, because of the higher interest rates,” said Satoshi Okumoto, a general manager in Tokyo at Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co., which has the equivalent of $67.1 billion in assets. “When we need to increase our foreign- currency bonds significantly, the U.S. is the only place to put the money because of the liquidity.”

China’s Shift

The amount of marketable U.S. debt outstanding surpassed $9 trillion last month. Retaining demand from international buyers, who own half of the Treasury debt outstanding, is key to keeping borrowing costs from surging as the Obama administration seeks to finance cumulative budget deficits that the White House estimates will exceed $4 trillion through 2015.

Interest expense will rise to 3.1 percent of gross domestic product by 2016, from 1.3 percent in 2010, according to administration estimates. While yields on the benchmark 10-year note are up, they remain below the average of 4.13 percent over the past decade.

The Treasury will sell $66 billion of three-, 10-and 30- year securities over three days beginning tomorrow. Last month, indirect bidders, the class of buyers that includes foreign central banks, bought a record 71 percent, or $17 billion of the $24 billion in 10-year notes offered at the auction.

China, the largest investor in U.S. government debt after the Fed, increased longer-term notes and bonds by 39 percent to $1.145 trillion in December from a year earlier, while its stake in bills declined 78 percent to $15.4 billion, the most recent Treasury data show.

‘Extremely Supportive’

The nation bought more U.S. bonds even as its leaders criticized Bernanke’s plan for the Fed to buy $600 billion of Treasuries by June. Jesse Wang, executive vice president of China Investment Corp., the country’s $300 billion sovereign wealth fund, said Jan. 15 that devoting too much of its reserves to U.S. assets such as Treasuries was too risky.

“They remain extremely supportive for the Treasury market,” said Priya Misra, head of U.S. rates strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, one of the 20 primary dealers that trade with the Fed.

Japan, the second largest holder of Treasury debt, increased its investment to a revised $882.3 billion, the highest ever, from $765.7 billion a year earlier.

Longer-term U.S. bonds offer the highest yields relative to short-maturity debt of any Group of Seven nation, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Yield Curve
The yield curve showing the difference between rates on two- and 10-year notes was 2.81 percentage points, after reaching a near record 2.93 percentage points at the start of February. The gap in Germany is 1.51 percentage points, 2.23 in the U.K. and 1.06 in Japan.

The curve will narrow to 2.63 percentage points by year-end and to 2.26 points by mid-2012, based on the median estimate of more than 40 economists and strategists surveyed by Bloomberg.

Strategists say the expectations show investors see little chance of inflation accelerating anytime soon. Returns on 30- year Treasuries, the most vulnerable to rising consumer prices because they have the longest maturity, gained last month for the first time since August, returning 1.51 percent, compared with an average loss of 0.09 percent for all Treasuries, Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes show.

“The yield curve dynamics will change dramatically” in the U.S. as the gap narrows, John Richards, head of North American Strategy at RBS Securities Inc., said at a forum in Tokyo on March 3. “I call this the beginning of the great compression of short-term and long-term rates.”

Inflation Experience

Oil costing more than $100 a barrel and record high food prices probably won’t cause a permanent increase in inflation and borrowing costs are likely to stay low, Bernanke said March 1 in his semi-annual monetary policy testimony before Congress.

Experience with such price gains in recent decades, along with currently stable labor costs, suggest a “temporary and relatively modest increase in U.S. consumer price inflation,” Bernanke said in Washington.

While the consumer-price index jumped 0.4 percent in January, the core measure, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.2 percent in January, in line with the average monthly gain of 0.16 percent over the past 10 years, figures from the Labor Department showed Feb. 17.

“Bernanke tends to think this doesn’t matter --at least in terms of headline versus the core -- we do,” Gross said in a March 4 interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene.

Cutting Treasuries
Gross cut holdings of U.S. government and related debt in Pimco’s $237 billion Total Return Fund to 12 percent in January, the least in two years. He recommends higher-returning assets such as emerging-market debt and corporate bonds.

The difference in yields between 10-year notes and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, was 2.50 percentage points on March 4, the highest since July 2008. The spread, which reflects the outlook among traders for consumer prices over the life of the bonds, averaged 2.43 points in the five years before the credit crisis.

“We would not be a buyer of Treasuries at these levels,” said Andy Richman, who oversees $10 billion as a director of fixed-income at SunTrust Bank’s Wealth and Investment Management in Palm Beach, Florida. “Inflation is becoming more of a problem than it has been. The truck of inflation moving down the road is getting closer and closer.”

Treasury yields have also risen on confidence that President Barack Obama’s $858 billion tax compromise in December and the Fed’s monetary policies have put the economy on a more stable path to recovery.

Job Gains
The U.S. added 192,000 jobs in February, a report from the Labor Department showed March 4, up from a revised 63,000 in January. Economists in a Bloomberg News survey had forecast the economy would add 196,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.9 percent, the lowest level since April 2009.

While Bernanke said inflation remains subdued in the U.S., European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said March 3 the ECB may raise interest rates next month for the first time in almost three years to fight mounting inflation pressures.

The European Union’s central bank boosted its inflation and growth forecasts, saying consumer price gains will average 2.3 percent this year, up from a December forecast of 1.8 percent and exceeding the ECB’s 2 percent limit.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

NEW VAT RULES IN THE EU - Are you aware?

As part of a large scale, phased, amendment of the VAT rules at a European level, a large number of EU VAT rules will change with effect from 1 January 2010. The most significant change concerns the rules for determining the place where a service is supplied according to the VAT rules, and which country can therefore tax these services (the "place of supply" rules). In 2011, 2013 and 2015 a number of smaller changes will follow. In addition to simplifying some of the existing rules, the changes also create new obligations, particularly from an administrative point of view.

All EU member states must implement these European rules into their national legislation. Accordingly, the proposed amendments to the Dutch VAT legislation have been published and are examined below.

Place of supply of services from 2010
Until 1 January 2010, the place of supply of services is where the service provider is established for VAT purposes, according to the ‘basic rule’ (specific rules exist for certain services). With effect from 1 January 2010, this ‘basic rule’ will change: for services provided to businesses (B2B services) the new ‘basic rule’ is that these services are deemed to be supplied where the recipient of the services is established (reverse charge mechanism).

The service provider will not charge VAT but the recipients of these services will have to account themselves for the VAT payable on these services in their local VAT returns under the reverse charge mechanism. This VAT is deductible in the same VAT return according to the normal rules. As a result of this new ‘basic rule’ for cross-border B2B-services, in many cases VAT will no longer have to be charged (and reclaimed).

The changes to the rules that determine the place of supply of services to non-business customers (B2C services) are less far-reaching.

Listings
With effect from 1 January 2010, businesses that supply ‘basic rule’ services to businesses in other EU countries will have to periodically report these services by submitting a listing electronically to the tax authorities. These services must be broken down by value per VAT number for each service recipient. Services that are exempt in the recipient’s country should not be included in the listing.

The listing should be submitted monthly to the Dutch tax authority, but all businesses may opt to submit quarterly listings. This choice should be communicated to the Dutch tax authority in a timely manner.

Refund of foreign (EU) VAT
With effect from 1 January 2010 it will be easier for EU established businesses to reclaim foreign (EU) VAT. The new procedure is also applicable to foreign (EU) tax paid in 2009. Where previously businesses had to send a number of documents and all original invoices by mail to each individual foreign tax authority, Dutch established businesses can, from 2010, apply for a refund of foreign (EU) VAT with the Dutch tax authority via the internet. The Dutch tax authority will assess the refund applications and forward them to the relevant foreign tax authorities.

From 1 January 2010, the costs on which VAT is reclaimed will have to be classified according to ten categories (nine specific categories and a general category). In addition, the applicants must include details of their deductible VAT method of calculation (if applicable) in the country of establishment. In addition, the foreign tax authorities will be required to process requests within a certain time. If they exceed the specified time (different time limits will apply in different circumstances), they will have to pay interest to the applicants.

Tax point – when is VAT due?
An additional rule will be introduced into the Dutch VAT legislation regarding the time at which VAT should be accounted for, i.e. the tax point. Where the service recipient is required to account for VAT under the reverse charge mechanism (as explained above), the tax point will be the moment when the service is provided.

In most cases, recipients of these services will not know (or will have no way of knowing) at what moment the services are provided or the value. They will usually rely on the invoices issued by the service providers. If they receive these invoices after the moment at which the VAT was due according to the new rule, strictly, they will be late in accounting for this VAT.
This new rule will have the most significant impact for businesses that cannot fully deduct input VAT, as these businesses will actually have to pay (part of) the VAT due on these services. Businesses with a right to fully recover input VAT can normally fully deduct the VAT accounted for on these services in the same VAT return.

In addition, where these services are supplied cross-border within the EU, there is a chance that mismatches will occur between the VAT accounted for in the VAT returns of the recipients and the services reported in the listings submitted by the service providers. This could result in enquiries from the tax authorities.

Important: what to do now?
The date of 1 January 2010 has passed and many are not aware of the new rules, it is a lot that needs to be done:

Both for determining the place of supply of services as well as for completing the new listing, businesses will have to establish whether their (EU) clients are VAT taxable businesses.

For this purpose, clients will have to provide businesses with their VAT identification numbers and these numbers should be checked by the service providers with the Dutch tax authority. When a customer provides a business with its VAT identification number, and the business has checked this VAT number with the Dutch tax authority, the business may assume that it will provide its services to a VAT taxable business.

Businesses will have to adjust their ERP systems to accommodate the new rules. This applies not only to the place of supply, but also, for example, when invoices include a reference to specific sections of the relevant legislation. ERP systems should also allow compilation and easy access to all data relevant for completing the new listings.

The procedures for reclaiming foreign (EU) VAT will have to be adjusted.
Everyone in your business that is involved in processing and raising invoices, and the completion and filing of VAT returns and listings, should be familiar with the new rules in time to implement new procedures and be fully compliant.


Good luck!
Jarl Moe

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Cyprus to increase their corporation tax


THE GOVERNMENT said yesterday it plans to raise its corporate tax rate, one of the lowest in the EU, by one percentage point to 11 per cent for two years to contain a deficit that is more than double EU limits.

The announcement, which drew the ire of businesses, came a day after the EU formally took disciplinary action against Cyprus for a projected deficit of 7.0 per cent in 2010, well above a limit of 3.0 per cent under EU rules.

"This will be (valid) for two years. It is a temporary measure to improve the budget position," Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis told Reuters. Businesses said the tax rise could stifle the island's nascent recovery from its first recession in more than three decades.

The government said it would submit legislation raising the tax to 11 from 10 per cent for parliamentary approval this week.

Stavrakis said the higher tax would bring in an extra €73 million for the government, based on calculations of some €730 million in corporate tax earnings in 2009.

Tax revenue has been crimped by the poor performances of the real estate and tourism sectors. Cyprus's economy contracted by 1.7 per cent in 2009 but stabilised in the first quarter of this year.

The tax measure will affect local firms and hundreds of international companies which take advantage of Cyprus' low-tax status.

"This is like killing the sacred cow of our economic model," said Stelios Platis, an independent economist.

"Businesses have relocated here because of our stable tax regime and low taxes. If you create instability this is the wrong thing to do. It is definitely wrong," he said.

Local and foreign companies have paid 10 per cent corporation tax since 2002 after Cyprus scrapped a 4.25 per cent tax on offshore companies under pressure from the EU, which it joined in 2004.

By phasing out the discrepancy, it also brought down the tax rate for domestic companies to 10 per cent from 20 and 25 per cent, depending on their turnover.

The employers and industrialists federation, (OEV), said the measure was short-sighted. It said the construction industry would be hard hit as the finance ministry is also planning to introduce a new calculation of tax in real estate transactions.

Until now property tax has been calculated on the basis of 1980 land values but in future will reflect current market values for properties worth €170,000 and above. The plan has yet to obtain parliamentary approval.

"While other countries are taking measures to drastically cut spending, including the state payroll, Cyprus is unfortunately opting to tax businesses, harming our credibility as an international business centre," OEV said.


Jarl Moe
President
http://www.taxwizards.eu/

Saturday, December 27, 2008

The United Kingdom against personal offshore accounts:

This heading should be the correct heading for all the offshore talk in the media lately in the UK.
You see, all the people they are talking about in the below article are people who actually registered offshore bank accounts in their NAME.

Of course, if you open an offshore bank account in YOUR NAME, you are the one that have to pay tax on it, even though the account is not in your country.

My company TaxWizards www.thetaxwizards.com teach you how to legally set up offshore accounts in a COMPANY NAME so you and the account legally are separated!

Contact me for more information on this topic.

Happy holidays!
Best wishes
Jarl Moe

UK Tax Revenue in new offshore tax trawl

The Revenue thinks it can retrieve hundreds of millions of pounds more
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will launch a second campaign next year to get tens of thousands of people to pay tax on money hidden in offshore bank accounts.

The "offshore disclosure facility" will target account holders in about 300 banks and building societies which have offshore operations.

The first campaign last year, aimed at customers of the big five high street banks, raised £450m from 45,000 people.

The Revenue says some tax dodgers it uncovered last year will be prosecuted.

"The intention of the new facility will be to provide an opportunity for account holders to inform us of their own accord of any unpaid tax or duties and to settle their debts in a similar way to the original offshore disclosure facility," said a Revenue spokesman.


Fines capped
The incentive for people to come forward will be a limit on the fine they might face, plus the threat of prosecution and much higher fines if they do not confess.

There must be some high-value targets the Revenue want to come clean
Chas Roy-Chowdhury, ACCA

Theoretically, the Revenue can fine miscreants up to 100% of the unpaid tax.

Last year, the penalty was capped at just 10% to encourage confessions, but this time around it will be higher, probably between 20% or 30% of the tax due.

Ronnie Ludwig, of accountants Saffery Champness, said this did not give sufficient encouragement to people to pay their taxes.
"The previous deal was not sufficiently generous to encourage people to come forward, so I anticipate a smaller response this time" he said.

The Revenue's latest move will not be a tax "amnesty", as all the tax and interest on it will still have to be paid in full.


It will not say how many people it thinks still have money hidden in the offshore accounts of the financial institutions it will target next year, although it clearly expects the figures to run into the tens of thousands.

"The effectiveness of the last campaign seems to have been a bit patchy," said Chas Roy-Chowdhury of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
"There must be some high-value targets the Revenue want to come clean," he added.


Suspicions
Last year the Revenue flushed out a list of 400,000 accounts it thought might be suspicious.
We are carrying out criminal investigations and we will bring some prosecutions before the courts in the New Year

Revenue spokesman"Many of the customers for whom HMRC received information had already paid any tax due on funds invested and interest arising in the offshore accounts and had nothing to disclose," explained the Revenue spokesman.
Of the 100,000 or so people about whom it still had suspicions, 45,000 came forward and eventually paid £450m between them.


But about 50,000 others are still being investigated and some of these will soon be prosecuted.
"HMRC has made follow-up checks of the disclosures made and has started a programme of checks on those who did not take the opportunity to come forward," the Revenue spokesman said.

"In the most serious cases, we are carrying out criminal investigations and we will bring some prosecutions before the courts in the New Year," he added.


Confessions
The Revenue will write to the latest tranche of banks and building societies, asking them to reveal the names and addresses of all its UK residents who have offshore accounts.
It will then write to them directly asking them to pay any unpaid tax.
Among the people who confessed last year were:

• someone who disclosed over £60,000 from a failure to declare rental income from a holiday home


• a woman worked all over the world and returned to the UK several years ago. She forgot about her offshore bank accounts where money was left after selling her last home overseas. Liability will be in the region of £44,000

• someone who sold a property portfolio, placed funds offshore and never declared them. Disclosure was about £1.7m


• a business man who diverted profits of about £1.3m into a Channel Islands bank account

• an employee with a disclosure of £200,000 to make, who placed a lump sum and dividends in a bank account offshore


• a businessman who diverted profits in excess of £800,000 into a number of offshore accounts

• a plumber who had paid about £10,000 from informal jobs into an offshore account


• a self-employed man who invested a £50,000 inheritance lump sum offshore.