Former Arsenal star Shkodran Mustafi is facing tax charges in Germany after he was accused of failing to declare a clutch of luxury Rolex watches he had bought in London. Shkodran Mustafi, 30, poses in undated photo. Customs initiated criminal proceedings against him for not paying tax on several high-priced…
German customs officers have seized a convoy of lorries from the UK loaded with construction equipment without declaring their contents for post-Brexit import taxes. Image shows the seized excavation equipment, undated photo. Customs officers from the Main Customs Office in the city of Nuremberg, Germany found 31 excavator shovels, an…
The American fast-food giant McDonald's has won a lawsuit against a city that introduced a packaging tax supported by over 100,000 people, after a court ruled that its bid to protect the environment was illegal. The ruling deemed the tax on single-use packaging invalid, despite reusable packaging already being used…
American fast-food giant McDonald's has begun a courtroom battle against a German city for imposing a strict new tax on packaging waste. McDonald's is suing the picturesque university city of Tuebingen, in central Baden-Wuerttemberg, in south-western Germany, after its Lord Mayor, Boris Palmer, 49, championed a disposable packaging tax that…
The daughter of drug lord Pablo Escobar has been hit with a multi-million-pound tax on property she does not even own as the Colombian state seized it before she fled the country. Manuela Escobar Henao, 37, is the daughter of Pablo Emilio Escobar, the most famous drug trafficker dubbed “the…
