Vivendi gets accord for new tax regime

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France's Finance Ministry has approved an agreement with Vivendi Universal S.A. that will allow the mass media company to file its taxes under the country's consolidated-global-profits system. The switch to a new tax regime will boost Vivendi's earnings and generate an estimated 3.8 billion euros in extra cash. In exchange, Vivendi has agreed that over the next three years it will create at least 1,600 permanent jobs in France.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, France, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Personnel administration, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Parent-to-subsidiary activities, Subsidiary-to-parent activities, Taxation, Human resource management, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Mass media industry, Communications industry, Company personnel management, SFR, Company business forecast/projection, Company forecasts, Vivendi S.A., Subsidiaries, divisions and units

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EA and Ubisoft hold initial talks

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French video games maker Ubisoft Entertainment S.A., after denouncing two months ago as "hostile" a 20 percent acquisition by Electronic Arts Inc. is now in negotiations which could lead to a possible merger.

Commodity & service prices, Security brokers and dealers, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Securities & Commodities Services, Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, Prices and rates, Securities industry, Video game industry, Video games industry, Company Profile, Electronic Arts Inc., ERTS, Company pricing policy, UbiSoft Entertainment

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French left urges wage, benefit rise for lower earners

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Leftist activists are pressuring French Finance Minister Laurent Fabius to increase the minimum wage, social security benefits and reduce taxes of low income wage earners.

Government domestic functions, National Government, Public Administration, Brief Article, Tax deductions, Wages, Minimum wage

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