05/20/2016
Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and Beneficial Ownership – Filippo Noseda, Withers
In today’s difficult economic climate, countries need more than ever to ensure that they collect all the tax revenues that are due to them in order to fund public expenditure and reduce public debt. The arrival of new technologies has made it easier
05/20/2016
The law firm was also runner up in the London Law Firm of the Year category.
05/20/2016
There is practically no legal way for a U.S. citizen to avoid paying U.S. taxes, even if this income is somehow connected to a shell company in a low tax jurisdiction, or tax haven.
05/19/2016
CSRC likely to cap debt ratio for equities investment at 100 per cent for asset management businesses
05/19/2016
Award is SEC Program’s Third Highest to Date
05/19/2016
Investors may find copies of this disciplinary action as well as other disciplinary documents in FINRA's Disciplinary Actions Online database.
05/19/2016
A double tax agreement was initialed to ensure that income from persons engaging in trade and investment is not taxed twice.
05/19/2016
The European Parliament’s special committee on taxation was set to send a fact-finding delegation to Washington this week to look into the state of tax avoidance in the US.
05/19/2016
Global expansion is high in the agenda for many US companies but along with new opportunities it also brings tax and accounting challenges.
05/19/2016
In higher risk businesses, the level of training given to staff in different divisions or roles could also vary depending on the risk level of their activities, Haslett said.
05/19/2016
Were it not for Mr Johnson's serious financial hardship, the FCA would have fined him £200,000.
05/18/2016
Cayman’s participation in the summit was predicated on it joining an initiative for the automatic exchange of beneficial ownership data.
05/17/2016
Bermuda law provides its courts the power to vary beneficial interests and administrative powers of trusts where it is in the interests of the beneficiaries to do so.
05/17/2016
It also created an academic windfall: the opportunity to study the real financial impact of offshore vehicles.
05/17/2016
BSI’s ongoing inquiry reportedly comes as authorities across the globe examine claims that 1MDB was used to funnel money to politically-connected individuals.
05/16/2016
The chief problem with the marijuana industry boils down to a states' rights issue.
05/16/2016
As former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey succintly put it, “the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall”).
05/16/2016
The Government of the Cayman Islands has this week gazetted a bill to repeal the statute that has frequently – and mistakenly – been described as Cayman’s banking secrecy law.
05/16/2016
UBS AG urged a U.S. judge on Friday to reject claims that it should be held liable for $2 billion in losses that investors incurred on mortgage-backed securities issued before the collapse of the U.S. housing market.
05/16/2016
Top officials in China's Communist Party are tied to this link via relatives who have established permanent residency in Hong Kong.