Post Europe: Insurance Premium Tax changes

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2011 brings with it many changes to insurance premium tax across Europe and a big headache for insurers operating locally in different countries or across multiple European territories. Edward Murray explains why it is key for insurers to be on top of the administrative this year.

Insurance Premium Tax used to be a sleepy backwater of the accounting world, but in recent years the rolling tumbleweed has turned into a torrent forcing European insurers to get to grips with a raft

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