Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance
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Is HMRC keeping up with tax evaders?
06/28/2017At 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
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Andersen Tax Debuts in Switzerland
06/28/2017They specialize in direct and indirect tax, inheritance planning, company restructuring, internal compliance, HR management and corporate consultancy.
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Private Client: The new residence nil rate band – are your affairs in order?
06/28/2017A review of your will may be required to ensure you get the benefit of the new residence nil rate band
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Germany refuses to release Swiss spying suspect
06/28/2017The man was tasked with identifying German tax investigators who purchased CDs containing details of bank account holders in foreign tax havens such as Switzerland.
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Strong progress seen on international tax transparency - OECD
06/28/2017The OECD-hosted Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes has been working to enhance global tax transparency, end banking secrecy and protect public finances by curtailing tax evasion since 2008
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Making wealth managers ready as the MiFID II deadline approaches By Rodney Taylor, Profile Software
06/27/2017There are new and detailed requirements to ensure that any newly created product passes an approval process, an appropriateness test, and is fit for the intended target audience.
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FCA funds study: six things Hargreaves Lansdown wants to see
06/27/2017The funds industry is twitching ahead the FCA study, with some reports suggesting fund firms could even face enforcement action.
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How Jimi Wanjigi makes billions at taxpayer’s expense
06/26/2017They are for fortune and health.
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The vin guard: 'Sherlock Holmes of wine' on the hunt for fraudsters who cash in on fake plonk
06/24/2017Maureen Downey, the world’s top wine expert, says swindlers buy old bottles on eBay, fill them with inferior wine and sell them for thousands
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Secretive owners of Scottish 'tax haven' firms to be revealed
06/24/2017It should mean that the shadowy owners of Scottish shell companies may finally be exposed.
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Riddle of the ruins
06/24/2017The body of Michael Treichl was recovered from Lake Geneva last week
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Tax deductions: the why behind the giving
06/23/2017Tax efficiency appears not to be the most powerful driver of giving among affluent American households
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Australian whistleblowers could get access to bounties worth millions
06/23/2017Under the legislative proposal, corporations could be forced to pay compensation relative to the employee's salary or a lost promotional opportunity.
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FINMA imposes sanctions for insider trading and market manipulation
06/23/2017FINMA has also ordered the proceeds of the company's liquidation to be disgorged in full as unlawfully generated profits.
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Royal Bank to cut 450 jobs, mostly at head office, in banking's shifting landscape
06/23/2017Canadian banks have announced more than 5,000 job cuts tied to restructurings during the past three yearshifting landscape
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Bermuda under EU blacklist threat, claims Richards
06/23/2017Bermudians should regard this Code of Conduct Group as the ‘EU Blacklist Group
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Macquarie bankers drug colleague with valium and laxatives
06/22/2017The drugging is believed to have occurred between June 1 and June 10, 2011.
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Protection for Trusts Governed by Bahamian Law - Higgs & Johnson
06/22/2017The purpose of Section 8 of the TCGLA is to act as a ‘firewall’ to protect Bahamian law governed trusts from attacks mounted on familial disputes or forced heirship claims emanating from jurisdictions outside of The Bahamas.
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Woman loses £50m divorce fight after claiming husband 'set up sham offshore trust'
06/22/2017The pair, who have not been named, had already racked up lawyers' bills of more than £2.2 million.
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Edmond de Rothschild fined for alleged involvement in 1MDB scandal
06/22/2017The affair, however, is mentioned in the annual report published in June.