International Law

The Next Big Thing in the Swine Flu Story
Any day now, I expect to be hit with spam from a China consultant who is selling his services to foreign-invested enterprises here to help them prepare their operations for the coming pandemic...

Review of Australia's Foreign Source Income Tax Rules
The Board of Taxation has released the Board's issues papers on possible reforms to Australia's foreign source income anti-tax-deferral regimes (the controlled foreign company rules, the foreign investment fund rules, the transferor trust rules and the deemed present entitlement rules).

FOREIGN PARTNERS CAN REDUCE WITHHOLDING
Under Internal Revenue Code Section 1446, foreign partners of a partnership that is engaged in a U.S. trade or business are subject to withholding of taxes attributable to their allocable share of the effectively connected income of that partnership...

China Whets Its Enforcement Appetite. And It's YOU It Wants.
For the last few months, we have been sounding the theme that China is becoming less beholden to foreign enterprises. We have been saying that the direct corollary of that is China's stepping up enforcement of its laws against foreign enterprises...

"Amendments to Late Ohio Attorney Registration Rules of Court"
Posted by Chuck Kallendorf: "Amendments to late Ohio attorney registration rules of court The Ohio Supreme Court announced the adoption of amendments to its rules on attorney registration and registration fees Monday...

China's New Corporate Income Tax Laws and their Effects on Foreign Investment
China's State Council approved the Detailed Implementation Regulation (DIR) on December 2007.  DIR's main goal was to implement China's new Corporate Income Tax Law (CIT) that entered into force on January 2008...

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

Schwan's Frozen Chicken
Recalled for Foreign Materials

Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.

Insight Enterprises, Inc.,
NSIT

Insight Enterprises, Inc.,
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud