According to the Tax Foundation, today is Tax Freedom Day in the US, which is the day on which Americans have worked enough to pay their taxes for the year.
Anyone know the equivalent for other countries?
Tags: Tax, Tax freedom day, United States
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Business travelers have long been forced to deal with the not-so-dulcet tones of Richard Quest, CNN International’s loudmouth news voice. And apparently, I’m not the only one who finds him annoying.
Now, Mr Quest has gotten himself into some hot water, and as the article points out, it will be interesting to see if it quiets […]
When I lived in Germany, I very rarely called home because even watching the numbers on my old phone, each one another 23 pfennigs gone, made by frugal heart drop. Now, a call from my cell phone is cheaper than the best rate I got in the bad old days, and a call from the […]
I’ve been reminded a lot recently that European males really have to be exceptionally careful when traveling to the US for business. Crime, perhaps? Or excessive shopping brought on by the abysmal dollar? No, although those may well be reasons for concern as well. European males have to be concerned about women or, more correctly, […]
So, if you’re looking for a place to start your research for that new trading partner, or the next business trip, check out this selection of links from globalEDGE, at Michigan State University.
Tags: business, international, links
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At one point I had asked for feedback on the best source of international business news in print, and I got a bit of feedback but not a whole lot. Sadly, though, the real determining factor was time. I don’t actually have time to fead my first choice every day, the Financial Times, even though […]
No sooner did I ask about the next low cost country (LCC), than I stumbled onto the Gartner Group’s research on Outsourcing, which includes a list of the top 30 countries for offshore services.
Gartner publishes a lot of interesting business research, mostly on topics revolving around IT. Take any IT business topic which I have […]
I just read an interview with Michael Snedden, president and CEO of MultiLing Corporation, a translation services company. Three years ago, MultiLing made a commitment to expand operations to Europe. Michael packed up his family and moved to Germany. They submerged themselves in the culture, hoping to integrate and learn German more quickly. After one […]
Wages have been increasing in a number of traditional Low Cost Country (LCC) locations.
Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, reports the following increases in industrial wages:
Czech Republic: 6.7%
Slovakia: 8.1%
Poland: 11.1%
Romania: 21.6%
Germany: 1.5%
France: 3%
Around Shanghai, China, wages in some industries are approaching European levels. (Source: Automotive News Europe). My post yesterday discussed reasons for setting up […]
Many global companies are expanding their worldwide engineering locations. There are a number of reasons to spread engineering resources around the global:
• Proximity to local markets
It is hard to design and develop a product targeted at Korea when your resources are located in the US. Products for a local market […]
Doing business across cultures
Written by J. Christopher Erb [email], and Jean Mercedes [email] for b5media.
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