Topic: Tax & Budget — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-18 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will extend its fuel tax cut scheme by another two months through November to ease price burdens on the public amid protracted tensions in the Middle East, the finance ministry said Friday.
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[2026-09-18 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-18 05:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former Connecticut deputy budget director Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, left, accompanied by his lawyer Vincent Provenzano, right, walks out of federal court on May 16, 2024, in Hartford, Conn. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant via AP, File)
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[2026-09-18 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As the midterm elections approach, Republicans are touting President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" to voters as they fight to keep slim majorities in Congress.
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[2026-09-18 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-18 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Nato chief Mark Rutte has said he is confident the UK government understands the need for a "credible path" to increase defence spending.
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[2026-09-18 02:24 UTC+10:00] [Aging] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said his government’s budget for 2027 will include a staggering €54 billion in savings as he attempts to contain the country’s growing deficit in a year that’s seen little to no economic growth.
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[2026-09-18 01:42 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Le grand sujet politique du jour, analysé en 15 minutes par les journalistes de POLITICO. Du lundi au jeudi, avant 18h.
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[2026-09-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Housing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mortgage holders like Emily Knights say financial pressure is causing serious anxiety, as a study reveals the effects of debt stress and rising rates
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[2026-09-17 23:42 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: DUBLIN — Brussels needs new taxes to avert major cuts to its next seven-year budget, Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin said Thursday.
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[2026-09-17 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Shares in Malaysia's budget AirAsia Group have plunged dramatically this week amid "heightened uncertainty" over its funding position and execution risks. © Reuters
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[2026-09-17 20:43 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen is open to continue providing defensive military gear to Ukraine but is against sending money to the war-torn country.
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[2026-09-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: This time last month, Sally Edmiston could not have imagined she’d been spending Thursday morning in the third week of September at the SCG, attending the Swans’ open training session the day before a preliminary final. Instead, the 57-year-old was considering cancelling her membership.
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[2026-09-17 19:04 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Electric company contractors install wires for newly installed electric meters on a utility pole along Jose Abad Santos Avenue in Manila on September 3, 2026.
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[2026-09-17 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Choosing a hotel in Makkah for Hajj or Umrah is different from booking an ordinary holiday stay. It is not only about comfort, but also about location, logistics, speed and ease of access to the Grand Mosque.
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[2026-09-17 17:04 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: September 17, 2026 17:04 | News
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[2026-09-17 16:10 UTC+10:00] [National News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-09-17 15:23 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday retained key ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle that seeks to shore up political support to push through her flagship spending plans amid jittery financial markets.
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[2026-09-17 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Yonhap) -- Despite a trade surplus in the K-pop and other cultural content sectors, South Korea continued to suffer a deficit in cultural and knowledge services trade in the first half of 2026, central bank data showed Thursday.
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[2026-09-17 11:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-17 09:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-17 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Albanese government has been urged to slash business red tape and lead a sweeping overhaul of federal and state taxes, with the International Monetary Fund warning without more change, Australian living standards will continue to stagnate.
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[2026-09-17 07:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-17 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-17 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-17 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks in Tokyo in June. The company is offering retail bonds with a coupon rate higher than other recent issuances. (Photo by Kazuho Fujiwara)
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[2026-09-17 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Australians who contacted the National Debt Helpline increased by nearly 12 per cent in the year to August. (Pexels)
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[2026-09-17 02:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Corporate debt issued by the giant cloud computing players powering the artificial intelligence boom is getting riskier, private equity firm Apollo Global Management warned on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Justice Ministry’s Legal Aid Department opened 154,552 files in 2025, with family and debt matters accounting for most of its caseload, according to its annual report published on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chief Executive John Lee unveils ambitious goal, together with measures to boost frontier technologies, including aerospace research
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[2026-09-17 01:30 UTC+10:00] [task group] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chief Executive John Lee unveils ambitious goal, together with measures to boost frontier technologies, including aerospace research
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[2026-09-17 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Blueprint sets 22 major goals for economic development, livelihoods and environmental protection, policy address targets five key areas of development
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[2026-09-17 01:23 UTC+10:00] [John Lee] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Blueprint sets 22 major goals for economic development, livelihoods and environmental protection, policy address targets five key areas of development
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[2026-09-17 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States war on Iran has cost the country $38bn so far, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said this week, adding that an estimated $3bn will be added every month if the conflict continues, placing strain on the country’s finances and economy.
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[2026-09-17 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Thousands of seminary girls were recruited for a mass fundraising campaign for Keren Olam Hatorah, a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) organization that supports yeshivas after the Israeli government cut their budgets due to the draft issue, KAN News reported Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 00:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Unions who donate to Labour will meet John Healey on Thursday to press home their demands ahead of next month's Budget.
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[2026-09-17 00:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US war with Iran cost the Pentagon approximately $38 billion in its first five months, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The bill could rise by another $2 billion to $3 billion for every additional month of fighting – and by more if hostilities intensify.
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[2026-09-16 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chief Executive John Lee says Hong Kong aims to attract more commodity traders to set up or expand their businesses in city
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[2026-09-16 23:35 UTC+10:00] [tax concessions] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chief Executive John Lee says Hong Kong aims to attract more commodity traders to set up or expand their businesses in city
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[2026-09-16 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Andy Burnham has insisted he is prepared to take "difficult decisions" on the economy, after a former Bank of England chief economist said investors were worried about his willingness to cut spending.
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[2026-09-16 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The government of Niger has settled a decades-long dispute with a Middle East airport provider, preventing a $35 million New York mansion it owns from being seized.
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[2026-09-16 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Hundreds of billions of debt that would weigh on future taxpayers is likely to be avoided, a long-term forecast on the state of the federal budget will reveal, even as the government faces growing spending pressures and a blowout in the nation’s interest bill.
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[2026-09-16 21:44 UTC+10:00] [Courts] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — British lawmakers called on the U.K.’s spending watchdog to investigate how much the U.K.-U.S. drug pricing deal will cost taxpayers.
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[2026-09-16 21:00 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Members of Germany's Bundestag visited Korea's National Tax Service for the first time to discuss digital tax administration and the use of artificial intelligence, the tax agency said Wednesday.
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[2026-09-16 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-16 20:20 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: John Healey, the chancellor, delivers the first budget of Andy Burnham’s government six weeks today and speculation about what it will contain is starting to intensify. Here are some of the budget-related stories around today.
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[2026-09-16 20:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to convene the Knesset committee overseeing the defense budget and immediately approve NIS 11 billion for urgent IDF procurement, arguing that the move could be carried out without breaching the state budget or raising taxes.
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[2026-09-16 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Athens is emerging as an unlikely contender in the competition for Europe’s hedge fund money, with Greece using favorable tax treatment, an improving economy and Mediterranean living to attract financiers looking beyond London and other established financial centers, according to Bloomberg.
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[2026-09-16 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE's tourism industry is not waiting for normal to return. Across hotels, airlines and destination authorities, companies are spending, expanding and repositioning – betting that the sector's foundations are strong enough to deliver a recovery through the winter season and into 2027.
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[2026-09-16 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Party funding] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: I’ve seen how imbalances in campaign spending can distort democracy. The multi-million-pound gifts to Reform must act as a final wake-up call
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