Swiss city of Lugano announces a center of excellence for blockchain adoption in Europe. The City of Lugano, Switzerland, and Tether Operations Limited Commit to Building a Center of Excellence for Blockchain Adoption in Europe. Collaboration Aims to Drive City-wide Blockchain Adoption and Allow Citizens to Pay Annual Taxes and City Services in Bitcoin, Tether … Read more
Recently, you may have received a stimulus check, bonus check from work, or another unexpected source of cash. Moments like this don’t happen often, and you want to make the most of your good fortune. Unfortunately, you may have trouble deciding on the best use of your windfall. Here are several ideas to … Read more
Staying on top of your financial situation can be difficult. No matter how committed you are to making your budget-friendly New Year’s resolutions, bills pile up and life happens. Whether you’re looking to pull yourself out of burdensome debts or would like to magnify the scale of your savings account, getting into the … Read more
France accounts for about 8 percent of the total annual luxury-goods sales, according to consultant Bain & Co. French election frontrunners President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Francois Hollande have both pledged tax increases. The measures may damp the feel-good factor, a driver of luxury-goods consumption, as has happened elsewhere in Europe, according to CA … Read more
Foreign millionaires fled Zurich after tax change Two years after scrapping special tax breaks, the region of Zurich has lost nearly half its foreign millionaires. Of the 201 foreign residents who benefited from the tax breaks which the canton scrapped in early 2009, 97 have decamped to more favourable tax regimes, the region’s tax services … Read more