If the directive is adopted in its current form, member states will have to develop IT systems which cross-reference individual tax returns with interest statements from all relevant banks. Before self assessment was introduced in the UK, tax...
Frequently, as we have discussed before, there is a tendency for technology buyers to be followers. Collective behavior that waits for prices to fall can easily become self-fulfilling. Consumers are set on saving rather than spending, despite zero...
That stalled this year, in part after influential groups, including the Consumers Union, the United States Public Interest Research Groups, and the Consumers Federation of America, wrote letters asking that more research be done.
But it takes on a larger context when you tally in years of Microsoft-hating feedback detailing the enormity of this single company's misdeeds. Sociologists would need to spend years getting to a root explanation, but this much is incontestable...
Convergence in particular will come under the EC's microscope as Brussels tries to assess how to squeeze opportunities from the coming together of digital networks, devices and content. Around five per cent of GDP across the 25 EU nation states...
The ethos of open, frank and robust dialogue that characterises the best of the social networking world can sit at odds with the tendency of politicians to want to control the context of communication and tailor the spin around their messages.