In the meantime the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, like the foot-draggers, are deducting withholding tax from EU-resident savers anonymously, and answering specific requests for information.

与此同时，海峡群岛和开曼群岛，就如那些拖后腿的国家一样，以匿名的方式减少欧盟居民存款者的预扣所得税，并仅对具体信息的要求作出反应。

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Brazil recently doubled a tax on foreign purchases of its domestic debt. This week Thailand announced a new 15% withholding tax for foreign investors in its bonds.

巴西最近将外国资金购买的本国国债税提高了一倍，本周泰国宣布，对购买其国债的外国投资者征收15%的持有税。

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Under a compromise, countries could either exchange tax information or deduct a withholding tax on the offshore accounts of EU members and remit it in bulk to the investors' home tax authorities.

在妥协之下，国与国之间既可以交换税收情报，也允许扣除欧盟成员国离岸账户的预扣税款，并汇到投资人母国的税务账户上。

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The gesture was dismissed by Palestinian officials, however, who described the withholding of tax revenues as "piracy".

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And the European Commission says both deals may be illegal under the EU savings-tax directive of 2005, because they let offshore-account holders pay a lower rate of withholding tax without having to reveal their identities.

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He estimated that the additional surcharge, and other direct tax initiatives, such as a withholding tax of 20% on profits distributed by unlisted companies to shareholders through a buyback of shares, would help the government raise a total of 133 billion rupees.

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