Bonus Tax

Banks Still Adding Jobs In London, Despite Taxes

Bloomberg | Simon Clark, Ambereen Choudhury and Gavin Finch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Investment banks in Europe's financial capital are adding jobs, helping to bolster headcounts at law and accounting firms across London, as the rest o...

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What Exodus? Financiers Coming Back To London Despite Taxes

CNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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Speculation has swirled in recent months about a looming exodus from the City to less regulated business districts in Switzerland and Asia, particular...

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U.K. Official: Tax On Bankers Bonuses FAILED

Telegraph | Amy Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Labour politician said the tax was likely to be a "one-off" and won't be reinstated by the Coalition, because it had failed to change behaviour in...

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Bloomberg's Federal/State Priorities Don't Include Preventing Devastating City Cuts?

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

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Apparently helping New York retain its most critical public services is not among the "easy-to-reference issues" political donors should consider "when political candidates are calling for contributions."

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It's Alive! (A Wall Street Bonus Tax, that is)

Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011

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Remember that Wall Street bonus tax that a couple Senate Democrats unsuccessfully floated this month? It's not dead yet. As we recently reported, the...

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Another Wall Street Bonus Tax Falters In Congress

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011

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Few topics have generated as much political heat between Main Street and Wall Street as the billions of dollars in bonuses handed out at financial com...

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London Banker Bonuses, Salaries surge

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON (Reuters) - Bankers in London have received average bonus increases of 40 percent this year and most have also received a jump in base salary, ...

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Daniel Gross: Big-Five Investment Banks: When Deserve the Public's Scrutiny

newsweek.com | Daniel Gross | Posted 05.25.2011

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But if the banks want us out of their business, they should get out of our business first. We've (barely) lived through a 40-year period in which inve...

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On the great bonus debate

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every once in a while something occurs that suggests you're just talking to yourself. Last week I spoke briefly to radio's Marketplace about a short p...

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Tullett Preborn To Help Employees Relocate To Avoid UK Bonus Tax

Posted 05.25.2011

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Tullett Prebon, a London-based inter-dealer broker described as one of the City's biggest trading firms, will help employees relocate to avoid the Uni...

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Jamie Dimon Reportedly Entreated British Politician To Reconsider U.K. Bonus Tax

bloomberg.com | Elizabeth Hester | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling that his 50 per...

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Deutsche Bank: U.K. Bonus Tax To Be Plans to Spread Costs of Globally

bloomberg.com | Aaron Kirchfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, plans to spread the costs of the U.K. bonus tax to all employees worldwide, risking a...

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Goldman Sachs' London teams could quit the City over taxes and regulations

Telegraph | Helia Ebrahimi, Senior City Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bank is understood to be considering its options in the wake of the UK's windfall tax on bankers' bonuses, a new 50pc top income tax rate, and inc...

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Geithner Won't Endorse Bonus Tax Bill, Says Right Balance Will Be Found

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner refused to endorse a congressional effort to heavily tax bonuses issued by TARP recipients, saying that the govern...

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VP Economic Adviser: Bonus Tax 'May Be Dangerous'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to the vice president, offered on Sunday the strongest White House pushback yet to the bonus tax bill passed b...

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Wall Street CEOs Push Back On Bonus Tax: "Terribly Unfair"

Wall Street Journal | JOE BEL BRUNO and MATTHIAS RIEKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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The chief executives of the nation's three largest banks on Friday pushed back against legislation that would heavily tax Wall Street bonuses. Citigr...

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Billions In Merrill Lynch Bonuses Would Elude Tax

NY Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Merrill Lynch's $3.6 billion bonus pool has been among the most controversial payouts on Wall Street. But most of those bonuses, which included some 7...

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Proposed Bonus Tax May Imperil Bailout

Washington Post | Shailagh Murray, Paul Kane and David Cho | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress moved yesterday to levy punitive taxes on bonuses paid by financial firms receiving government aid, threatening to undermine federal efforts ...

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Congressman Claims 'Sphincters Are Tightening' As AIG Debate Turns Anatomical

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The debate over what the White House and Congress should do about AIG's bonuses has turned...anatomical. Appearing on the floor of the House of Repr...

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A Disturbing D.C. Whodunit [Update II]

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The mystery over who killed a provision in the stimulus package that would have curtailed bonuses at bailed out companies is a disturbing D.C. whodunit. But even more disturbing is what it reveals about how our government is run.

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Congress, White House Pointing Fingers Over Who Killed Bonus Provision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The question of who killed a provision that could have reined in lavish bonuses issued by bailout recipients remains a mystery, with key players eithe...

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House Passes Bill Taxing AIG Bonuses, Republicans Switch Votes In Droves

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House overwhelmingly passed legislation on Thursday to tax bonuses paid out by AIG and other bailed-out firms at a rate of 90 percent. "We want ou...

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Wyden: My Bill Could Have Prevented AIG Mess

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Additional reporting by Arthur Delaney Senator Ron Wyden said on Tuesday that the furor surrounding AIG's bonus payments could have been avoided had...

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