ABN AMRO must pay a fine of 14 million euros for complicity in tax evasion. The Public Prosecution Service accuses a foreign bank in this case of intentionally filing incorrect corporate tax returns. The Public Prosecution Service is summoning the American bank Morgan Stanley for this. Research by the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) […]
ABN AMRO must pay a fine of 14 million euros for complicity in tax evasion. The Public Prosecution Service accuses the bank of deliberately filing incorrect corporate income tax returns. Research by the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) shows that the Dutch subsidiary of a foreign bank filed five corporate income tax returns between
The European Union is holding formal talks with the United Arab Emirates on free trade. In the initial phase, they are discussing, among other things, lower levies. It would be the EU’s first major trade agreement with a country in the Gulf region. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, speaks of an
Working conditions need to be improved in many cases. Advisory body SER advocates for more modern occupational health and safety rules, more attention to risks, and more work-related care. The standards should also not only take into account adult white men. “There are still companies where people work in unhealthy and unsafe conditions,” writes the
Thousands of taxi drivers in Athens will go on strike for two days starting Wednesday. They are protesting against the policy at the airport in the Greek capital. Tourists are expected to be particularly inconvenienced. Metros and buses will continue to run, but will likely be overcrowded. The taxi drivers are protesting against, among other
The Netherlands had more than a million plug-in cars for the first time at the end of the first quarter. More than one in ten passenger cars is now a plug-in car. And the number of gasoline cars is decreasing. At the end of the first quarter, there were 594,000 fully electric cars and 410,000
The turnover of the parent company of the Chinese webshop Temu has fallen sharply in the past quarter. The company is struggling with competition in the domestic market, but is also suffering from the trade war between China and the United States. The profit of e-commerce company PDD Holdings in the first quarter almost halved
Pornosites Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos must prove in the coming period that they are doing enough to keep minors off their platforms. The European Commission has strong suspicions that the sites are not complying with legal rules and has launched investigations. Children under the age of eighteen are not allowed to visit the porn
The construction of a biofuel factory in the Port of Rotterdam will not proceed. The Finnish company UPM is halting the plans due to excessive construction costs. UPM, which also produces paper and cardboard, announced that all technical work on the project has been stopped. The company writes that the investment and operating costs of
The intelligence service AIVD holds a new and previously unknown Russian hacker group responsible for the major hack on the police in September 2024. In that hack, “work-related contact information” of all police employees was stolen, such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Immediately after the discovery of the hack, intelligence services expressed the