08/26/2014
In this edition of AIFMD Insider News, we examine the key factors managers will need to consider when selecting a Member State of Reference (MSR) in Europe.
08/25/2014
Corporate tax avoidance continues to grab headlines and has not escaped the attention of Europe’s institutional investors who are now paying much closer attention to multinationals’ accounting practices.
08/25/2014
The convention, which was last amended in 1977, has been adapted to make it correspond to modern international tax law and current economic relations between Israel and Germany.
08/24/2014
If all activity were taxed fully, national tax revenues would almost double.
08/22/2014
The company said it remains in talks with the Revenue Service over a fine related to its booking of goodwill amortization at the time of the merger.
08/22/2014
The LDF was originally intended to encourage UK taxpayers with undisclosed assets in offshore accounts
08/21/2014
Investors who move money to non-disclosure jurisdictions will be kept in check by new rules from the UK tax authorities, which plan to make it a criminal offence to evade offshore tax.
08/21/2014
The original purpose of the LDF when it was launched back in 2009 was to allow individuals with assets in Liechtenstein and undisclosed tax liabilities to settle those liabilities with HMRC on exceptionally advantageous terms.
08/21/2014
UK expats are being encouraged to write to the Competition and Markets Authority over their treatment by onshore banks, which are refusing to allow them to open accounts – or switch existing accounts to those offering better rates.
08/20/2014
The talks with the German officials came two weeks before Greek ministers are due to meet troika representatives in Paris, where the issue of taxes is certain to be raised.
08/19/2014
Some £1.5bn has been recovered from offshore tax evaders over the past two years.
08/19/2014
Serbia's Information Commissioner has warned that banks must have the full consent of customers before information is passed to US tax authorities under the terms of FATCA, and that it would be illegal for customers to be declined services if they re
08/18/2014
The great pensions divide... How expats receive up to FOUR TIMES less, despite paying in the same
More than a million pensioners have retired abroad but more than half have seen their incomes shrink
08/18/2014
ver the past four years David Cameron’s government has subjected Britain’s public sector to a fierce programme of deficit reduction to restore order to UK public finances.
08/17/2014
Thousands of Britons abroad have been fiddling the benefits system, and some have been traced and investigated as far afield as Christmas Island and Bhutan
08/17/2014
Property owners and pensioners who face losing their personal tax allowances can take steps now to protect themselves, say experts
08/15/2014
HMRC announced on Thursday that users of offshore tax avoidance schemes were not eligible for the special rates aimed to encourage taxpayers to come clean over secret foreign bank accounts.
08/15/2014
The Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in London, has now confirmed that Luxembourg has completed its own ratification procedures.
08/14/2014
Nigel Green, deVere Group founder and chief executive, warned that should the government introduce these plans a growing number of British expats are likely to “sever financial ties with the UK”.
08/13/2014
It is clear that for many people who have invested untaxed illicit earnings in accounts in Switzerland or other tax havens things are becoming too hot.