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Autumn Statement 2016: Private Client Announcements - Wedlake Bell

This will make it easier for such individuals to inwardly invest in UK businesses.

New Estonian govt planning to impose bank tax

The new coalition is also planning to restrict tax-free taking out of profits from Estonia.

Bankers Are Suffering From a Bad Case of Trapped Capital: Gadfly

Your home regulator and cost of funding would decide where you took your global business, with intra-company transactions smoothing the flow of capital.

Revenue hires to delve into multinationals

It follows moves at a global level to clamp down on tax avoidance strategies and close off loopholes.

SMP Accounting & Tax - UK Autumn Statement 2016

On Wednesday 23rd November Phillip Hammond issued his first UK Autumn Statement.

Wot no rabbit? by George Bull

This was by no means a dull Autumn Statement, nor was it particularly short, but if we exclude the re-announcement of measures introduced in the March 2016 Budget, it was definitely light on new tax content.

Tax avoidance 'enablers' on Hammond's radar

Measures include a requirement for intermediaries and service providers with UK clients to register with HMRC.

Taxpayers face losses of £27bn for bailing out banks

Fall in lenders’ shares after Brexit vote prompts watchdog to revise costs

British taxpayers face 27 billion pound loss from bank bailout

Taxpayers face a 32.4 billion pound loss on the value of the government's shares in Royal Bank of Scotland.

Personal Tax Inspectors – The Ultimate Status Symbols

Around 6,000 inquiries are open into their tax affairs.

Taxing times: a starting gun on 'corporate tax wars'?

The implications for the rest of Europe are less clear cut.

Guernsey Tax Bulletin: Autumn Statement 2016

This year’s Autumns Statement marks the end of an era and the start of a new chapter, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond has said.

Romania's Liberals eye sharp cut in VAT next year

He also pledged measures to cut red tape and improve transparency in the public sector.

Schäuble Attacks British Tax Cuts

Her words were designed to boost British businesses, which had mainly wanted Britain to remain in the European Union.

Football stars face 'life-changing' tax bills over film scheme

Tax advisers it would issue tax payment demands amounting to large multiples of the amounts invested

How Britain is squeezing the rich

The NAO report reveals that the unit winkled an extra £416m of tax out of its well-off “customers” in 2015-2016 as a result of compliance investigations.

France investigating 500 taxpayers after Panama Papers leaks

It didn't identify any of the taxpayers involved.

Tax Evasion In Greece Remains High

The equivalent of 3.5 percent of GDP is lost through value-added tax evasion.

France: Proposed income tax withholding for resident individuals

Currently, French tax residents pay their income tax in the year following the year in which the income is received.

Zero tolerance needed against tax secrecy, says former Panamanian advisor Joseph Stiglitz

But he added that Europe, acting alone, could make a significant difference.