Canada

Medical examinations are no longer required for most foreign nationals from Mexico and 44 other countries seeking to reside in Canada for more than six months or to enter as agricultural workers.

Aetna Global Benefits

We are pleased to welcome Aetna Global Benefits as a Gold Sponsor  to the Global Mobility Summit in London on the 15th November.

Luxembourg

On 30 July 2010, the Luxembourg Minister for Finance proposed a draft law to the Luxembourg Parliament for the introduction as from 2011 of tax measures aimed at counter-balancing the effects of the economic and financial crises in Luxembourg (Projet de loi N° 6166).

AEGON Global Pensions

We are please to announce that AEGON Global Pensions are Gold Sponsors for the Global Mobility Summit on the 15th November 2010 in London.

Indonesia

Indonesia’s Director General of Tax issued Circular Letter No. SE-60/PJ/20101, which instructs each tax office to collect and complete at least 1,000 taxpayers’ profiles in its database. Once these profiles are collated in the central database, the tax authorities will have a “better” benchmark with various classifications, which would be useful to gauge taxpayers’ level of compliance. The information will be shared throughout the whole archipelago through a nationwide taxpayer network system.

Karen Counterman

Roomservice by CORT, the UK’s leading furniture solutions provider, has strengthened its team with the appointment of Karen Counterman as business development manager.

Karen joins from the relocation firm Clearview Relocation, where she was also business development manager. Her remit involves the development of new business within the key relocation sector, an area that is particularly suited to Roomservice by CORT’s core business of furniture rental.

Equus Software

Equus Software are the latest company to sponsor the Global Mobility Summit in London on the 15th November as a Platinum Sponsor.

Argentina

Guidance from the Argentine tax authorities (Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos—AFIP) concerns individual income tax. Resolutions 2866 and 2867 (published in the official gazette Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina (No. 31.941, 12 July 2010)) address the amounts that employers must consider in calculating withholdings of individual income tax, due to a 20-percent increase in the amount of personal allowances, and the effect of certain advanced payments of individual income tax.

India and Czech Republic

India has recently signed a social security agreement (‘SSA’) with the Czech Republic. The SSA provides for the following benefits, on a reciprocal basis, to Indian nationals working in the Czech Republic. Indian nationals working in the Czech Republic, on a short-term contract up to five years, will be exempt from making social security contributions under the laws of the Czech Republic provided they continue to make social security contributions in India.