03/26/2015
Greece, Switzerland Resume Talks On Untaxed Money
Greece and Switzerland were to hold a new round of talks Thursday on a deal designed to help the cash-strapped Mediterranean country recover billions of euros in unpaid taxes.
03/25/2015
Michael Betley, group chairman of Trust Corporation International looks at how Guernsey has coped in an increasingly transparent and regulated world and how it can adapt to further change in the future.
03/24/2015
The meeting, which took evidence from Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s former permanent secretary for tax and Edward Troup, HMRC’s tax assurance commissioner, shed little additional light on the tax evasion scandal involving HSBC Suisse.
03/23/2015
No where to hide: Israel, UK ally against tax evasion epidemic
In Britain, the mix of politics, the upcoming elections, the budget deficit and public pressure has provoked a whirlwind of controversy around the issue of tax avoidance and tax evasion.
03/23/2015
HM Revenue & Customs has introduced a new strict liability criminal offence on both offshore tax evaders and those who help them following the UK Government’s clampdown on tax dodging in yesterday’s Budget.
03/20/2015
Bern and Brussels have clinched a deal to exhange bank account data in an effort to tackle tax fraud.
03/20/2015
Financial services firms targeted in Budget crackdown
03/20/2015
Please find links below to Deloitte’s UK Budget 2015 Briefings.
03/20/2015
Office for Budget Responsibility analysis shows the deaths of 64,000 people will lead to families paying inheritance tax in 2019/10
03/20/2015
Economists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies warn that £5bn of extra taxes will deter investment in the short term
03/20/2015
Croatia and the United States have signed an agreement on the application of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act concerning accounts in foreign financial institutions
03/19/2015
Budget 2015: 'Google tax' to launch next month - targeting multinational companies who don't pay their fair share
George Osborne announced the Diverted Profits Tax will come into effect on April 1
03/19/2015
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility to face early closure
The UK Government has announced in today’s Budget that it will close the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) half a year earlier than expected
03/19/2015
George Osborne delivered his 2015 Budget emphasising the government’s ambition to create the most prosperous major economy in the world by 2030, with prosperity widely shared.
03/19/2015
The EU executive said its ambitious plan would force the EU's 28 countries to share details of any tax deals agreed with some of the world's biggest multinationals, ending the secrecy that allowed member states to often compete against each othe
03/19/2015
When the tax man comes knocking
Will changes to the tax regime put foreign buyers off UK property, and what does this mean for structuring through the Channel Islands?
03/19/2015
With yesterday's budget being the last before the UK goes to the polls in May for what is being touted as the most closely fought General Election in decades - businessife.co gathered opinion on how the budget might affect Guernsey and Jersey.
03/19/2015
Lord Green, the former boss of scandal hit bank HSBC, has broken his silence over the Swiss tax row which engulfed the bank and saw senior executives face MPs.
03/18/2015
There is an ideal opportunity for the George Osborne to announce his plans at tomorrow's Budget
03/18/2015
Proposed penalties for “serial users” of tax avoidance schemes have been criticised by lawyers, who denounced them as unnecessary given the tax authority’s existing powers.