Topic: Taxes

Insurer Aviva, which was hit last week by one of the biggest revolts over executive pay ever suffered by a British company, said on Tuesday its chief executive Andrew Moss had resigned from his position with immediate effect.

Despite all the debate about the Buffett rule, the U.S. ranked 23rd in terms of the top marginal tax rate in 2011. Find out which 10 countries have the world's highest income tax rates.

Marriage is full of financial surprises, and, for those considering it these days, there's a new one — married couples are nearly six times as likely than single taxpayers to trigger the AMT.

Marriage and divorce. When it comes to the convergence of emotion and money, those two events not only define our quality of life but also our standard of living. For this and other reasons, we decided to focus our 2012 edition of "Life Changes" on marriage and divorce — and money.

India delayed by one year the introduction of measures to crack down on tax evasion on Monday, moving to mollify overseas investors whose panic has led to a dramatic exodus of funds and hammered the rupee.

The risk of Greece exiting the euro zone have risen to as much as 75 percent, according to economists at Citi. Describing such an outcome as a “Grexit,” the Citi team said, however, that the chances of a broad-based break-up of the euro zone remain very low.

Greeks angry at years of austerity shrugged off the risk of a euro zone exit and punished their ruling parties, which failed to win enough votes to form a ruling coalition in Sunday's election.

Greek voters enraged by economic hardship deserted governing parties in droves at elections on Sunday, raising deep uncertainty about the country's future in the euro zone.

A ban on campaigning took effect in Greece on Saturday 24 hours ahead of the most uncertain and critical election for decades, a vote that could throw the country's future in Europe into doubt and shake the common currency.

Greece needs to see consensus among the various political factions and to renegotiate its bailout to return to markets and build a long-term program of economic growth, according to the President of the Athens Chamber of Commerce.

Indonesia's decision to tax the export of metal ores and ban the shipment of raw minerals unless miners submit plans to build smelters will only have a limited impact on commodity markets, several experts told CNBC.

Voters in the United Kingdom punished the coalition government’s two political parties at local elections across the country on Thursday in what will be seen by many as a rejection of the government’s austerity.

The UK had its latest testy exchange with the rest of the European Union Wednesday night, as Finance Minister George Osborne had an angry outburst at the negotiating table during talks about bank rules.

The tenth annual OffshoreAlert gathering brings together financial advisers, Cayman and other offshore bankers, and government officials. But much of the attention - and criticism -has been on the presence of 19 IRS officials.

With most of Europe in a protracted recression and struggling to regain levels of output last seen in 2008, policy from the Obama administration has stopped the world’s largest economy from suffering a similar fate, according to UBS senior advisor George Magnus.