07/09/2014
Offshore tax dealings: celebrities and sportsmen in leaked Jersey files
In another major blow to international personal tax evasion, the names of over 20,000 wealthy offshore clients of a private bank in the Jersey island tax haven, have been leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
07/09/2014
HMRC predicts the new measures would only affect about 17,000 individuals each year
07/08/2014
Information on expats opening offshore accounts to be shared with HMRC
The UK signed its agreement with the US in 2012
07/07/2014
The BBA has today responded to the European Commission’s consultation on tax problems faced by EU citizens when active across borders within the EU.
07/07/2014
500 property raids launched in the last year – managing to hit a new record high
07/06/2014
Providers suggests measures to avoid tax avoidance at retirement due to new rules are not robust enough.
07/04/2014
The potential impact of these new HMRC powers is so huge that an independent appeal process should be introduced
07/04/2014
The Commission continues to gather information on the tax practices of member states ... and this might lead to new formal investigationS
07/03/2014
The Finance Ministry is pushing ahead with its program to entice Russian-owned offshore firms to repatriate capital.
07/03/2014
This is the latest example of the authority’s efforts to build international cooperation and prevent a repeat of the corruption scandals
07/03/2014
Spain taxes the worldwide income of residents and the Spanish income of non-resident
07/03/2014
They’ve served their purpose by stimulating FATCA, and that period of work was absolutely essential to lay the groundwork for the new global structure of tax information.”
07/03/2014
Standard Life will be contacting its Sipp customers with further details when the position becomes clear, the FSCS says.
07/02/2014
A global crackdown on offshore tax havens following the financial crisis and a 2008 wrangle with Germany over stolen bank data have forced the principality to come clean over its tax policies
06/30/2014
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Learn how to avoid paying tax - at Her Majesty's embassies!
Guests were offered free drinks and canapes as they were asked if they were liable for British inheritance and capital gains tax.
06/30/2014
It is aimed at “creating legal conditions for information exchange between Russian and foreign financial institutions and tax agencies
06/30/2014
On 1 July, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) will also be implemented in Italy
06/29/2014
The agreement includes mutually satisfactory terms which, amongst other things, provides that as of 1 July 2014 KPMG 2014 and Accura Tax become the Danish KPMG practice and KPMG Denmark exits KPMG and joins EY.
06/27/2014
Dutch pre-tax incomes are by some measures nearly as skewed as America’s, but once the government has chopped them up and passed them around, they are among the world’s most egalitarian.
06/27/2014
The Non-Resident Landlords Scheme is a scheme for dealing with the UK taxation of UK rental income of individuals, companies and trusts that are not resident in the UK.