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European tax haven ministers meet in Luxembourg
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Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria meet Sunday to prepare their defence against a growing international onslaught on tax havens.
Luxembourg Treasury Minister Luc Frieden was to host Swiss Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz and Austrian Finance Minister Josef Procll for talks on how to defend banking secrecy.
Switzerland has been the driving force behind the meeting, eager to avoid being put on an international blacklist of tax havens due to be revealed at a summit of the Group of 20 industrialised and developing powers in London on April 2.
Switzerland has come under pressure from the United States and big European countries to yield on banking secrecy, which has made the Alpine country an international financial centre.
In February, Swiss bank UBS handed over information on up to 300 clients to the US government and paid a fine of 780 million dollars to settle a case in which it was accused of abetting tax fraud by US clients.
The US government has filed a separate lawsuit to try to force UBS to disclose the identities of 52,000 US customers who allegedly evaded taxes.
France and Germany last week proposed that G20 members punish countries deemed to be "uncooperative" tax havens by breaking off bilateral fiscal conventions with them.
Malaysia to unveil new economic stimulus plan
AFP, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia will this week unveil a second stimulus plan worth up to 9.4 billion dollars in a bid to prevent its export-driven economy sliding into recession, a government official said.
Finance minister Najib Razak, who is expected to take over as prime minister next month, would announce details of the ambitious strategy in parliament on TUesday. a government official familiar with the plan told AFP at the weekend.
"The government wants to ensure growth. We want to prevent the country from slipping into a recession." he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"It could be between 25 and 35 billion ringgit (6.7 and 9.4 billion dollars.) It is inclusive of everything, including tax cuts," he said.
Last month, the government said 13,000 Malaysians lost their jobs due to the global slump. There has also been bad news from the manufacturing sector.
Malaysia's January exports plunged 27.8 percent year-on-year, hitting their lowest level since 2001 amid falling demand from key trading partners.
AFP
Shoppers walk past a sale sign at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Malaysia will unveil a second stimulus plan worth $9.5 billion to prevent job losses and spur growth, as experts warn of a looming recession. Malaysia's January exports plunged 27.8 percent year-on-year, hitting their lowest level since 2001 amid falling demand from key trading partners.
Iran inflation hits 25.9pc
AFP, Tehran
Inflation, one of the biggest challenges facing oil-rich Iran, hit 25.9 percent in February, local news agencies reported on Sunday, quoting official figures.
Inflation rose to 25.9 percent in the Iranian calendar month of Bahman ending February 18 from the previous month's figure of 24 percent, the ISNA news agency quoted the central bank as saying.
The latest figure, although marginally higher than for January, is still lower than the September 2008 peak of 29 percent
Central bank chief Mahmoud Bahmani has vowed to cut inflation to around 22 percent by March 20, the end of the current Iranian year, in a strategy of "increasing production and supplying goods proportionate to demand."
Central bank officials have cited growth in money supply as the prime factor for the surge in inflation, along with rising global prices.
Analysts predict that the government injecting oil money into the economy will keep inflation considerably high for years to come, despite the central bank's efforts to reduce excessive liquidity.
German car scrapping bonus revs up
AJ P, Frankfurt
A German bonus for scrapping old cars to boost the auto market has fit a fire under domestic sales, with just a few voices dissenting amid general acclaim for the result.
"So far it can be considered a success," Economy Ministry spokesman Felix Probst told AFP last week after 150,000 applications had been received for a programme that offers 2,500 euros (3,200 dollars) for trading in a car at least nine years old.
Buyers must choose a car that is less than a year old, with the government ready to dole out 1.5 billion euros • enough for 600,000 autos -- as part of a general economic stimulus plan worth 80 billion euros.
German car sales jumped 21.5 percent in February as a result, "the strongest level of February sales in 10 years," according to Matthias Wissmann, head of the German -VDA federation of auto manufacturers.
Auto exports meanwhile collapsed, losing 51 percent in the same month to make the home market figures all the more welcome.