ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Tax Authority (FTA) significantly expanded its efforts in collaboration with various government departments, ministries and authorities to protect consumers from non-compliant products, combat tax evasion, and ensure compliance with tax legislations and procedures. During the first half of this year, the FTA carried out 9,948 inspection visits in local markets across the country ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dr Suhail Al Bastaki, Director of Happiness and Marketing Department at Union Coop, confirmed that consumers had interacted positively with the decision to limit single-use plastic bags since its implementation on July 1. He added that consumers are using recyclable and environmentally friendly bags that can be used multiple times while making a purchase. He pointed ...

  Bloomberg The world’s oil map is being redrawn as the industry becomes increasingly intertwined with renewables, according to consultancy Wood Mackenzie Ltd. Oil majors that want to reduce their carbon footprint will have to shift their activities to energy basins where drilling rigs can be powered by renewables and which have ample space for carbon sequestration, said Andrew Latham, ...

  Bloomberg Surging energy prices are projected to push one in three British households into fuel poverty by October, intensifying the cost-of-living crisis and heaping pressure on the new prime minister to take swift action. The number of homes spending more than 10% of total income on energy will jump to 8.2 million that month, when bills are set to ...

Bloomberg A gas turbine for the operation of Gazprom PJSC’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline that’s the main route of gas transport from Russia to Germany is held up in transit after maintenance in Canada, the latest twist in an ongoing spat between the two countries. The turbine is currently stranded at an undisclosed location in Germany because Russia hasn’t provided ...

  Bloomberg Hindustan Zinc, a unit of billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta, is considering expanding overseas as a way to profit from growth opportunities in Europe. “There is a strategic thought that we could venture into the international market,” Hindustan Zinc Chief Executive Officer Arun Misra said in a phone interview. “Europe provides us with an opportunity, the make or break ...

  Bloomberg Alcoa Corp warned that surging costs around the globe have rendered as much as 20% of aluminum-production capacity unprofitable. Despite rising worldwide aluminum demand, Alcoa will be pinched by escalating costs for energy and raw materials, Chief Executive Roy Harvey said during a call with analysts. “Based on June’s average prices, we estimate that between 10% to 20% ...

Italy is back in crisis, unsurprisingly. The political cycle that started with a populist earthquake in 2018, bringing together fringe forces of the left and right in an unusual coalition, has ended the same way it started — with a bitter shock to the system and market turbulence over the future of Italy. Along the way, it has fuelled the ...

Last month, comedian John Oliver delivered a scathing episode on tech monopolies for his show “Last Week Tonight.” Between jokes, he laid out some key Big Tech antitrust concerns. Apple Inc controlling the App Store. Alphabet Inc’s Google favouring its own properties in search results. Amazon.com Inc reportedly using third-party seller data to create knock-off private label products. However, a ...

  Whatever else killed George Washington, the draining of more than a third of his blood in less than half a day would probably have done him in anyway. Well into the 19th century, bloodletting, as it was called, was the favoured treatment of doctors for pretty much everything for two reasons: First, it was based on a generally accepted ...