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bp holdings article code 85258080768, Feeding Frenzy fraud watch In the months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 300 miles off Florida's coast in April 2010, hotel and restaurant owners, fishermen and shopkeepers kept a grim vigil, waiting to see whether the millions of gallons of spilled oil would taint the state's beaches and harm its seafood. From a distance, thousands of others watched too, the Canadian, European and American tourists and business travelers who had hoped to rent the Tampa Bay, Sarasota or Naples hotel rooms, dine at the restaurants, shop at the stores, and meet in the conference halls along the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, many traveled elsewhere. Although no flocks of oil-soaked pelicans washed up on Florida's shores, and the 200 million spilled gallons did not blacken beaches as so many feared, the coastal communities and their businesses were nonetheless damaged by the BP oil spill, through economic losses - the visitors who never came. That is the contention of cities and counties, and thousands of business owners whose revenues fell in the months following the disaster. A number of Florida resorts and other businesses that sought early compensation for their losses - the plunge in expected revenue - found their requests denied, although London-based BP had set up a $20 billion fund for victims. But the firms couldn't prove their revenue declines were related to the spill. In December, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans gave final approval to a $7.8 billion partial class-action settlement providing for economic and property damages from the spill, including those in Florida. BP separately agreed to pay $4.5 billion in penalties and pleaded guilty to felony misconduct in the disaster, which cost 11 lives. Barbier now is presiding over a trial to determine whether BP was grossly negligent, with another $17 billion in potential penalties at stake. A new, streamlined process recognizes losses farther from the ex

article code 85258080768 CH, international bp spain holdings news madrid http://www.globalresearch.ca/soaring-markets-troubled-economies-towards-a-global-financial-downfall/5335658 Central banks run today's world. Money printing madness controls everything. Liquidity-driven markets reflect the power of bankers to do it. They're more powerful than standing armies. They can levitate markets. They can enrich themselves at the same time. They can do it while economies crater. The power of massive liquidity infusions combined with market manipulation generates huge profits. What can't go on forever, won't. What's going on now defies reason. Disconnect barely explains it. US equity markets hit record highs. So did Germany's DAX. Japan's Nikkei reached a five and a half year high. One recent headline read "Central banks pop champagne corks as stock markets soar." Another said "Which European Market Will Hit a Record High Next?" Turkey's BIST-100 topped 91,000 for the first time. Switzerland's SMI has a ways to go. It's headed in the right direction. Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 and the OMX Nordic are closer. London's FTSE 100 looks poised for a record high. It could do so in weeks. Who said defying gravity's impossible? Markets are doing it with ease. Record valuations bear no relation to economic reality. Today's disconnect is unprecedented. Paul Craig Roberts expects an eventual triple bubble explosion. On the one hand, he says "rich elites are stealing everything for themselves." At the same time, he cites "three of the biggest bubbles in history." "The bond market, stock market and the US dollar" are levitating. (S)omething is going to go. This is possibly one of the riskiest years in Western civilization." Combined with police state enforcement and imperial wars, it's menacing. article

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http://www.newsmeback.com/story.php?title=-bp-spain-holdings-spanish-tax-facts Taxation in Spain occurs at a national level and at a regional ('Autonomous Community') or municipal level. The Spanish taxation system was subject to a significant review in 2007 that resulted in the introduction of a new Personal Income Tax Act. The tax regime in Spain is controlled by the Ministry of the Treasury. Tax Year 1st January to 31st December. Assessment Basis Spanish residents are taxed on their worldwide income (earned and unearned), capital gains from all sources and on their worldwide assets. Spain operates a self-assessment regime. For personal income tax purposes, married couples may choose to file tax returns jointly or separately. Income Tax Spanish residents are subject to Spanish Personal Income Tax ('IRPF'). Individuals and couples benefit from personal allowances which reduce their liability to tax and which increase in line with the number of dependent children. A new structure has been created for the taxation of income, which now falls into two categories: the general base and the savings base of income. The general base includes salary and other benefits from employment, income from economic activities, and property rental income (either actual or deemed). Such income is reduced by applicable deductions and allowances. It is subject to a progressive scale which is applied to successive portions of taxable income with rates ranging from 24% to 43%*. In the autumn of 2011 a new tax bracket was introduced for higher income earners as an austerity measure, with income over €175,000 now subject to a 45% rate. The savings base is subject to a 19% tax rate on savings income up to €6000 and to 21% on the excess and includes interest, dividends, and capital gains/losses paid to residents in Spain, together with life and disability insurance proceeds paid to Spanish residents by a Spanish entity (or an EU insurer operating on a Freedom of Services pa

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/07/bp-oil-deepwater-horizon-disaster-compensation Le Deepwater Horizon huile catastrophe avaient certains incontesté terrible, conséquences : 11 personnes sont mortes lors de l'explosion de la plate-forme pétrolière de BP le 20 avril 2010, et l'huile verse pas cochée dans le golfe du Mexique depuis 86 jours. Après cela, cependant, l'image devient trouble. Des centaines de milliers de personnes et d'entreprises ont été touchées par la catastrophe, mais, comme tous les mois passe, 10 000 prestataires plus émergent. Demain, avocats pour BP comparaîtra à la Nouvelle Orléans pour soutenir que son énorme projet de loi d'indemnisation est en décalage avec les faits et attaqués par les fraudeurs. BP va tenter une fois de plus faire valoir que les termes du contrat de l'an dernier pour indemniser les victimes du déversement sont maltraités par les « réclamations frauduleuses, excessives ou inadéquate ». Le géant pétrolier n'est pas seul en craignant que son système d'indemnisation est maltraitée. La semaine dernière, le juge Carl Barbier, qui supervise l'affaire de plusieurs milliards de dollars de dommages civils contre BP, nommé Louis Freeh, un ancien juge et le chef du FBI, pour examiner les allégations d'inconduite à l'office qui gère les demandes d'indemnisation. Watch this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/gcharm/bp-jordbruksfretag-artikel-kod-85258080768-ch-oil Jusqu'à présent, la compagnie a eu peu de chance argumentant contre le régime qu'il mis en place en mars dernier. Un panel de trois juges entendra l'appel de demain, dans laquelle chaque côté a 20 minutes pour exposer son cas. BP fait valoir que le Comité de rémunération est ignorant la signification juridique acceptée des termes tels que "recettes" et de "rémunération" de la manière qu'il évalue des demandes. BP est représenté par Theodore Olsen, l'avocat de Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher qui était procur