International taxes

The former chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) as French prosecutors flex their muscles to tackle white-collar crime.

Danish police are investigating an explosion that ripped through the country’s national tax agency late on Tuesday, in what authorities are characterizing as a deliberate act.

HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private banking unit agreed to pay about 294 million euros ($329 million) to settle a Belgian criminal probe into allegations it helped wealthy clients dodge hundreds of millions of euros in taxes.

The presidential candidate says she would fund her health-care plan by rolling back one of the few changes in Trump’s tax law that Democrats actually wanted.

The U.K. retailer reported a surprise tax bill of almost $750 million, the departure of its financial chief and deepening woes at department-store chain House of Fraser.

France stuck to its plan to tax big multinational tech companies, defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might impose tariffs on French wine.

Politicians from both sides of the aisle in Washington are agitating for curbs on the record pace of stock buybacks planned by American companies.

GILTI and FDII may be encouraging companies to invest more abroad, rather than repatriating their income.

U.S. corporations brought back offshore profits in record numbers last year with nearly half of the repatriated funds coming from low-or-no-tax countries where companies had stashed cash prior to the 2017 tax law.

These days, not even the 7-foot, 6-inch Yao Ming can fight his way through the U.S.-China trade war.