07/03/2015
The Guernsey Income Tax Office have announced they will not impose penalties on local Financial Institutions which did not meet the 2014 US FATCA reporting deadline of 30 June 2015 providing filings are made by 8 July 2015.
07/02/2015
Last March we were promised ‘a Budget for business’, but will it be the same story second time around?
07/02/2015
HM Revenue & Customs has dropped thousands of QROPS schemes from its recognised overseas pension schemes (ROPS) list, with Australian schemes fairing the worst.
07/01/2015
The taxman has a warning for fast-living tax cheats in Northern Ireland – “We are coming after you”
06/28/2015
Stockport chartered accountants Hallidays joins Russell Bedford International as a key step in expansion of regional network.
06/28/2015
Adviser on ‘Google tax’ says international competition and offshore tax arrangements lead government to provide policies attractive to corporations
06/26/2015
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has taken a swipe at Switzerland for providing only limited information about wealthy tax evaders from cash-strapped Greece who are believed to have stashed billions of euros in Swiss banks.
06/26/2015
The current transparency agenda and the harmful tax practices initiative date all the way back to 1998, the year the OECD published its seminal paper ‘Harmful Tax Competition’ an Emerging Global Issue
06/25/2015
A survey of more than 240,000 business and engineering students from 12 of the world’s largest economies named Grant Thornton one of the 50 'World’s most attractive global employers'
06/25/2015
STEP reports a particularly high number of international entries for this year’s awards, with the judges shortlisting only the most outstanding in each category.
06/24/2015
The Isle of Man ratified the agreement at the November 2013 sitting of Tynwald
06/23/2015
Bracken Rothwell is redefining its services using the latest social media storytelling trends.
06/23/2015
The first round of talks for signing a double tax avoidance agreement between Iran and Hungary was held between the two countries’ tax officials.
06/22/2015
Income tax revenue from high earners fell by 4.4% in 2013 due to a sharp decrease in the number of high net worth individuals liable for such tax.
06/22/2015
'Without prejudice to countries' sovereign positions, we are happy to confirm that these jurisdictions are cooperative and we would like to commend the tremendous progress made over the past years as well as the cooperation and integrity of the
06/19/2015
David Gauke, financial secretary to the Treasury, insists on tax competition as opposed to Union’s plan to introduce common tax rules
06/19/2015
The Chief Executive Officer of the States of Guernsey, Paul Whitfield, has expressed his surprise that Guernsey has been included on the blacklist and has explained that the error is most likely due to "a lack of understanding about Guernsey's c
06/18/2015
The European Union published its first list of international tax havens on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on multinational companies trying to avoid paying tax in the 28-nation bloc.
06/18/2015
Guernsey’s Chief Minister and Commerce & Employment Minister have expressed their astonishment further to an announcement of the European Commission yesterday that Guernsey has been included on a list of 30 so-called non-co-operative jurisdictio
06/18/2015
Personal tax rules in both Spain and Germany have recently come under scrutiny by the European Union, potentially spelling good news for people looking for investment opportunities in Europe.