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The problem with promises to crack down on tax-dodging banks

The system gives room for avoidance but taxpayers at least know what to expect, writes Clemens Fuest

Budget 2016 at a glance: the key points

George Osborne has unveiled the budget. Here are the key points

Investors set to gain from tax transparency

Global tax avoidance measures and improving governance benefits investors.

Tax system is making UK attractive place to do business, KPMG claims

Britain closes gap on Ireland as most appealing place to do business, owing mainly to its competitive tax system

European parliament to probe multinationals on tax arrangements

However, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man have declined to appear, as have Fiat Chrysler and Starbucks.

Goldsmith slammed for targeting London's Hindus with 'scaremongering' jewellery tax leaflet

The Tory mayoral candidate sent out a letter to London's Tamil community claiming his Labour rival wanted to tax their family jewels

Multinationals and tax authorities appear before tax rulings committee

Also tax-related state aid verdicts and investigations by the Commission are likely to be discussed.

Budget Wish List - LCP Property

3% Additional Rate Stamp Duty – LCP's Budget Wish List

Bankers' bonus tax avoidance schemes so complex judges named them after Houdini are illegal, Supreme Court judges rule in a legal battle over bill worth £183MILLION

Ruling against UBS Group, AG and Deutsche Bank at Supreme Court

Credit Suisse probed in Italy in tax evasion case: sources

Credit Suisse offices in Milan were searched by Italian police in December 2014 as part of an investigation by Milan prosecutors.

Flight of the non-doms?

Wealthy beneficiaries say they will leave the country if Britain revamps a special tax status

Why the CRA’s ‘secret deal’ with KPMG’s clients in the Isle of Man scheme might actually be a good thing

It has all the makings of an Agatha Christie novel — except in this case the allegations aren’t murder, but tax evasion.

Budget 2016 – where will the Chancellor hide the tax rises? by George Bull

The Chancellor likes to surprise and to please, rather like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat to the delighted gasps of the audience.

UBS, Deutsche Bank Escaped Bonus Taxes Like Houdini, Judges Say

The 12-year-old dispute involved taxes on two 90 million-pound $128 million employee bonus plans set up in 2003 to reduce liabilities on some bonuses the following year.

Canada Revenue offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax 'sham'

The Canada Revenue Agency offered amnesty to multi-millionaire clients caught using what's been called an offshore tax "sham" on the Isle of Man

Facebook is set to pay millions more in UK tax after dumping ploy of funnelling sales through Ireland

Facebook avoids tax by sending money to Ireland then to Cayman Islands

UK Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) Changes to the Taxation of UK residential properties

The 2014 Finance Act increased the scope of the annual ATED charge so that from 1 April 2016 ATED applies also to UK residential properties with a market value as at 1 April 2012 (or at acquisition, if later) in excess of £500,000, where the propert

States of Jersey Common Reporting Standard (CRS)

Draft Guidance Notes - 2nd Edition

IOM: Common Reporting Standard (CRS) Draft Guidance Notes Published

The guidance notes do not cover all the obligations of Isle of Man businesses under the CRS but outline the options taken by the Isle of Man Government in their implementation of the CRS where choices were allowed within the CRS and the penalties that wi

Labour MP Caroline Flint tells Zac Goldsmith to ‘come clean’ over Cayman Islands tax deal

The Standard understands that he and his wife have a high street mortgage for their family homes in Barnes.