Why Christine Lagarde Doesn’t Pay Tax Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has rarely been out of the headlines this week – and on Tuesday a storm erupted on the Internet over the news that she pays no tax on her salary.  Her salary is $467,940 (£298,675) a year plus $83,760 additional allowance – equivalent to around $630,000 if she were paying U.S. top rate income tax of 35 percent. This is a substantial sum, more than U.S. President Barack Obama or Secretary of State Hilary Clinton brings home in a year. Yet she could earn more if she were still able to juggle prestigious jobs in the private sector. The storm has the distinct whiff of an imbroglio in the crockery. Full Story Photo: Bloomberg | Getty Images
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Why Christine Lagarde Doesn’t Pay Tax

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has rarely been out of the headlines this week – and on Tuesday a storm erupted on the Internet over the news that she pays no tax on her salary.  Her salary is $467,940 (£298,675) a year plus $83,760 additional allowance – equivalent to around $630,000 if she were paying U.S. top rate income tax of 35 percent. This is a substantial sum, more than U.S. President Barack Obama or Secretary of State Hilary Clinton brings home in a year. Yet she could earn more if she were still able to juggle prestigious jobs in the private sector.

The storm has the distinct whiff of an imbroglio in the crockery.

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Greece Needs to Accept Bailout Terms: South Korea South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak says Greece needs to accept the terms of a $130 billion international bailout agreed in March and there will be no disbursement of money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), unless the country does so.  “I urge the Greek government, the corporations, the workers and the people, (they) need to accept those terms,” Lee said in an interview with CNBC’s Chloe Cho in Seoul. Full Story Photo: AP
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Greece Needs to Accept Bailout Terms: South Korea

South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak says Greece needs to accept the terms of a $130 billion international bailout agreed in March and there will be no disbursement of money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), unless the country does so.  “I urge the Greek government, the corporations, the workers and the people, (they) need to accept those terms,” Lee said in an interview with CNBC’s Chloe Cho in Seoul.

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