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Private Client: The new residence nil rate band – are your affairs in order?

A review of your will may be required to ensure you get the benefit of the new residence nil rate band

Is HMRC keeping up with tax evaders?

At the start of the year tax evasion and avoidance featured in the news agenda on a regular basis. Despite fewer headlines, tackling this issue still remains an important part of the UK government’s tax agenda, but is HMRC ahead of the game or strug

Why UK's Political Impasse Offers Breathing Space fro Tax Efficient Investors

The objective of the PCR was to identify access barriers to long-term finance for growing firms.

Why it doesn’t pay to own property in Spain through a company

The company has to pay Spanish corporation tax.

Former aide to Princess Diana named on Irish tax defaulters list

Company behind A1 skip bags makes biggest settlement on latest list

U.K. Tax Authority Misses Trust Ownership E-Register Deadline

The tax authority and the Treasury have been further considering responses to the published draft laws.

Complex cases push down HMRC's tax investigation yield

HMRC’s yield from investigations has fallen 10%, from £73 for every £1 spent in 2014/15 to £66 in 2015/16, according to law firm Pinsent Masons

Iceland Proposes A Novel Solution To Tax Evasion

But the most interesting part of this story is what these workgroups recommended be done to combat tax evasion.

Secretive owners of Scottish 'tax haven' firms to be revealed

It should mean that the shadowy owners of Scottish shell companies may finally be exposed.

HMRC remind advisers of 31 August deadline for offshore advice notification letters

Failure to meet the deadline can result in a penalty of £3,000.

How to help your non-dom clients with IHT

Then the election was announced. Suddenly the imperative was to get a semblance of the Finance Bill onto the statute books before parliament dissolved.

Austria: New tax treaty with the UK under negotiation - Deloitte

In essence, the new terms indicate that the contracting states wish to ensure that, following Brexit, qualifying cross-border dividends would remain eligible for an exemption from dividend withholding tax

Accidental Americans want out

It calls on French banks to stop applying the so-called Fatca legislation where they pass account details to the US tax office.

HMRC collects record £5.1bn in inheritance tax

What upsets people is that this is wealth that is being taxed twice.

EU proposes tax transparency rules for intermediaries

Intermediaries including accountants and tax advisers potentially face tough new transparency rules after the European Commission seeks to curb tax avoidance schemes

Accountants face fines for aggressive corporate tax planning under draft EU law

The proposal will need the approval of the European Parliament and all EU states to become law

EU pushes for reporting of offshore set-ups

Draft proposal to clamp down on aggressive tax planning schemes

Malta PM will quit if 'shred of truth' in tax charges

Muscat went to the polls a year early after his wife was implicated in one of a series of alleged corruption cases arising from the Panama Papers data leak

Cristiano Ronaldo accused of tax evasion

The world's highest-paid sports star had previously said he was not worried about tax investigations as he had nothing to hide.

Deloitte integrates Gibraltar operation into its UK entity

As an area of special interest leading into upcoming Brexit negotiations, the territory been the cause of constant controversy throughout 2017