03/02/2015
Based on the size of banks' assets and liabilities, it is designed to penalise risky lending and trading, while incentivising firms to cut their use of wholesale funding.
03/02/2015
Authorities will also intensify pre-emptive actions and full-scale tax controls in 400 large enterprises and 900 cases of wealthy taxpayers.
03/02/2015
Italy and Switzerland have agreed an amendment to their double tax agreement (DTA) to enhance tax information exchange provisions
03/02/2015
The minister's comments come just days after McDonald's was accused by labour unions
03/01/2015
Portugal has received information on 611 taxpayers listed in the Swiss Leaks affair
02/27/2015
These changes are mainly in the area of personal taxation and are introduced by a number of Amendment Ordinances recently published, some of which are still to be laid before the Guernsey States of Deliberation.
02/27/2015
On 26 February 2015, the European Court of Justice ruled that France should not levy the 15.5% social charges on income received outside France by French tax residents who are not covered under theFrench social security regime.
02/27/2015
There is a lot of discussion at the moment about the UK pension reforms and the options now available for your pension funds.
02/26/2015
Lin Homer, the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs, said it had reached a deal in the past few days with French authorities to pass on the data "to pursue wider offenses"
02/26/2015
The document will not name any of the individuals for legal reasons and because it remains unclear whether all or some of those involved broke the law.
02/25/2015
A number of tax professionals have argued that a new code of conduct is unnecessary, but some experts have expressed support for a kitemark, or charter, for advisers.
02/25/2015
UK Pension Tax Changes Significant For Expats
Major changes to the tax treatment of private pension lump sums will come into effect in April 2015 and may be especially relevant for those who want to use the cash to relocate abroad.
02/25/2015
Faced with the furore over the alleged involvement by HSBC in alleged tax evasion, politicians have been falling over themselves to propose a clampdown.
02/25/2015
HSBC CEO Stuart Gilliver will give evidence today alongside HSBC Chairman Douglas Flint with regard to allegations by Briitsh authorities that he has been party to tax avoidance
02/25/2015
Swiss asset managers, faced with the prospect of an exodus of Italian funds, have won a reprieve.
02/24/2015
Switzerland expects in the future to sign a deal with Germany to automatically exchange tax information
02/24/2015
Tax investigators and police have raided commercial offices in Germany as they looked into allegations of large-scale tax evasion with regard to profits made in Luxembourg. Commerzbank was at the center of the searches.
02/23/2015
The HSBC chief has UK non-domiciled tax status, allowing him to keep offshore income and capital gains out of the British tax net, because he is domiciled for tax purposes in Hong Kong, even though his job is based in London
02/23/2015
Former minister suspended by the PN
02/22/2015
HM Revenue & Customs is likely to address doubts surrounding the IHT-exemption of fully-flexible QROPS with a “wide review” into how overseas pensions are taxed