• 苹果是“美国最大的逃税者之一”

    13-05-21 Apple has been accused of being among America's largest tax avoiders by a Senate committee. 苹果被参议院一个委员会指责为美国最大的逃税者之一。 The committee said Apple had used a complex web of offshore entities to avoid paying billions of dollars i...

  • 英国政府或将停发"已婚人士津贴"

    13-05-10 在本周三的女王演讲中,英国政府将公布一系列法案修正提案,其中包括停止发放已婚人士养老金。英国目前的养老金制度规定,在职已婚人士退休后领取养老金的同时,其配偶也可根据其之前缴纳的社会保险金额申领一定数额的已婚人士津贴。 Taxpayers are funding state pens...

  • The squeezed middle 受挤压的中产阶级

    13-04-27 The squeezed middle refer to people on average incomes who have less money than previously to buy the things they need because rising costs have not been matched by an increase in pay. The squeezed middle指收入一般的人群因为生活成本提高而收入未曾增...

  • 个人所得税

    13-04-15 tax rate 税率 tax year 纳税年度 tax exemption threshold 起征点 nine-bracket system 九级征税级别 public sentiment 公众意见 National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee 全国人大常委 tax burdens 课税负担 individual income tax law 个人所得税法 St...

  • 卢森堡将建立透明的银行系统

    13-04-08 Luxembourg would consider greater transparency of its banking sector to help curb tax evasion, the finance minister has told a German newspaper. 卢森堡财政部长对一家德国报纸称,卢森堡将考虑建立更透明的银行部门来帮助控制逃税问题。 In an interview pub...

  • 研究:莎翁曾是“无良逃税奸商”

    13-04-03 英国阿伯里斯特威斯大学的研究人员表示,被世人仰慕的文学巨匠莎士比亚其实还有不为人知的一面:他曾是一个无良商人,而且还是逃税份子。 It sounds like the sort of character who would have been deeply unpopular in one of his plays. William Shakespeare was a...

  • 塞浦路斯对存款征税引发不满

    13-03-24 上周末,塞浦路斯政府与欧元集团达成总额为100亿欧元的救助协议。协议规定,塞浦路斯银行要向储户一次性征税,10万欧元以上存款的税率为9.9%,10万欧元以下存款的税率为6.75%。这一议案公布后引来各界不满,塞浦路斯民众纷纷涌向银行提款,但银行款项已被冻结,要等到...

  • 英国医生呼吁对软饮料加税20%

    13-02-24 UKs doctors have called for a 20 percent tax on soft drinks and have asked for junk food advertisements to be banned. 英国众多医生呼吁对软饮料加税20%,并禁止发布垃圾食品广告。 The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which represents almost every one...

  • 奥巴马演讲 共同努力解决财政赤字

    13-02-24 Hi, everybody. Over the last few years, Democrats and Republicans have come together and cut our deficit by more than $2.5 trillion through a balanced mix of spending cuts and higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. That's more than halfway t...

  • 奥巴马演讲 新一年里希望减少赤字

    13-01-20 Hi, everybody. Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I'd work to change a tax code that too often benefited the wealthy at the expense of the mid...