07/13/2016
The bank identified about 2,200 of its 35,000 Cayman Islands U.S. dollar accounts as high risk because of either suspicious activity or due to a lack of information about the account owners.
07/13/2016
Following the EU referendum, there is considerable uncertainty surrounding how Brexit will impact employers and employees in the globally mobile workspace. Whilst nothing is certain, there are a number of tax issues to consider for UK employers who are ei
07/13/2016
The FCA found that Mr Philip failed to meet the minimum regulatory standards in terms of competence and capability
07/13/2016
Criminal and civil sanctions for enablers of tax evasion
07/13/2016
The former chief executive, who was paid a £300,000 bonus annually by Signia on top of her salary, claims in the same document that Mr Caudwell asked her to take a polygraph test and offered to escort her to sessions for psychiatric help.
07/12/2016
The CRS Status Message XML Schema allows Competent Authorities that have received CRS information through the CRS XML Schema to report back to the sending Competent Authority, whether the file received contained any of the file and/or record errors.
07/12/2016
With a raft of existing and upcoming regulation to address, many asset managers said that they are looking for ways to minimise the reporting burden associated with both pieces of regulation, with some looking to reuse reporting and regulatory data.
07/11/2016
This will pave the way for a new offensive against Swiss banks,” he is quoted as saying.
07/11/2016
The adviser boycotted her enforcement hearing, but that may not stop the regulator from throwing her out of the securities industry
07/11/2016
As long as the stoligarchs are in charge of as much as a fifth of Russia’s economic activity.
07/08/2016
The Federal Council said that these jurisdictions fit the profile of the countries with which it wishes to introduce the automatic exchange of information.
07/08/2016
He has also demanded 10 million won for mental distress.
07/08/2016
According to its website, the family-run bank which is the oldest in the UK and the fourth oldest in the world offers clients help netting “the best after-tax returns” as part of its offshore investment management wing.
07/07/2016
Spanish law is such that any sentence under two years for a non-violent crime rarely requires a defendant without previous convictions to serve jail time.
07/07/2016
It is unclear whether such a cap is imposed across other vertically integrated firms.
07/07/2016
The changes are set to take place on 1 August 2016.
07/06/2016
But this focus on extra-territorial tax evasion has not been confined to Switzerland.
07/06/2016
Switzerland reacted to the final guidance under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's project to combat base erosion and profit shifting by passing comprehensive corporate tax legislation.
07/06/2016
The French tax authorities filed the request for international administrative assistance in tax matters with the FTA based on the Double Taxation Agreement between Switzerland and France
07/06/2016
In this week’s Tax Brief, we unpick the Chancellor’s statement regarding plans to cut the rate of corporation tax to 15 per cent and explore the implications for business tax, income and employment taxes and VAT.