07/19/2016
Whyte & Mackay Slammed For Paying Just £172K In Taxes
Whisky giants Whyte & Mackay have come in for criticism for paying just £172,000 in taxes despite recording profits of over £24million.
Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance
07/18/2016
Singapore places UBS, DBS and Falcon under scrutiny over 1MDB transactions
Reuters reported that Switzerland's Falcon Private Bank and Coutts International, owned by Geneva-based Union Bancaire Privee, are also under scrutiny. UBS, Coutts, and DBS have all declined to comment on this matter.
07/15/2016
Government Weakness Has Allowed Tax Dodging To Flourish
“It’s not just about clever companies,” O’Sullivan stressed. “Somebody has to create the tax haven for profits to be shifted in to, and many governments are willing to do that.”
07/14/2016
SEC Proposes Making Brokers Reveal Where Client Orders Go
Brokers would also need to publicly release the details on an aggregate level in reports, which would be posted on the SEC’s website.
07/14/2016
Swiss watchdog opens investigation into BSI's former Asia CEO: lawyer
The newspaper said the enforcement proceedings could lead to a multi-year ban from working in finance among other penalties.
07/14/2016
‘Fortuitous’ Close Bros Equity Allocation Pays Off
Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Close Brothers Asset Management, said the fund came into 2016 slightly on the defensive, but still with enough exposure to risk assets to generate returns.
07/14/2016
UK withholding tax on interest paid to non-UK residents - Withers
The current basic rate of income tax in the UK is 20%. Whilst there are various circumstances to which deduction of income tax at source is relevant, the specific purpose of this article is to describe the position that applies when UK source interest is
07/14/2016
Investing into India: Mauritius and beyond - Withers
This is a major development impacting both Mauritian and Singapore investment structures which currently contribute around 50% of the foreign direct investment into India.
07/14/2016
Anti-inversion legislation and US taxation - Withers
The 2016 US presidential election year has included a significant amount of discussion about international taxation.
07/14/2016
A tax office in a tax free country -vWithers
Tax is on the political agenda worldwide and the topic catches headlines in all reputable media on a near daily basis.
07/14/2016
BSI Bank’s former Singapore chief executive sues over bonus
The former chief executive of BSI Bank in Singapore, Hans-Peter Brunner, is suing the Swiss bank for freezing his bonus two months after the Singapore regulator ordered that the bank be shut down.
07/13/2016
Ex-CEO of BSI Bank in Singapore sues firm over bonus amid IMDB probe
BSI and Swiss national Brunner "mutually agreed" in September that he would retire from the bank, according to court papers.
07/13/2016
UBS Faces MAS Scrutiny for 1MDB
MAS is expected to ask a number of banks, among them UBS, for further information about their dealings with the fund, these people said.
07/13/2016
HSBC avoided criminal charges over fears of ‘systemic risk’
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
How could Brexit affect employee assignments abroad?
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
FCA fines Towergate and former director Timothy Philip for client and insurer money failings
The FCA found that Mr Philip failed to meet the minimum regulatory standards in terms of competence and capability
07/13/2016
Tax transparency webinar | 27 July 2016
Criminal and civil sanctions for enablers of tax evasion
07/13/2016
Phones4u founder set for showdown with former business partner
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
OECD releases standardised IT-format for providing feedback on received Common Reporting Standard information
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
Mifid II, Solvency II most concerning for asset managers
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.