02/11/2016
A recent blog post by The Tax Foundation offers compelling data that suggests a strong correlation between the recent spike in U.S citizenship renunciations and the 2010 passage of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
02/11/2016
Yak was not personally at the Singapore High Court on Friday, when he sought to unfreeze his Singapore funds to pay taxes and legal fees.
02/11/2016
Yak was not personally at the Singapore High Court on Friday, when he sought to unfreeze his Singapore funds to pay taxes and legal fees.
02/10/2016
It is alleged that RBS Coutts in Zurich, which is owned by RBS, is one of the banks that had transferred the state fund's money out of Malaysia.
02/10/2016
As Google and HMRC prepare to face the Treasury Select Committee on Thursday, there have been calls for businesses (and individuals) to make their dealings with the taxman more transparent. All this comes as MPs vote on whether to overturn their right to
02/10/2016
Trial of the sister of Spanish King Felipe marks first time a member of Spain's royal family has faced criminal charges
02/10/2016
ESMA will have to design data exchange systems with about 300 trading centres offering around 15 million financial instruments in order to implement the regulation.
02/10/2016
From failing to understand tax-loss-harvesting rules to a lack of knowledge about international investing laws, these errors cost rich people both money and time.
02/09/2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Achilles Macris £792,900 for failing to be open and co-operative with the Authority.
02/08/2016
In Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that he accepted the attorney general’s opinion that there had been no wrongdoing, but he also said that he did not think that the money had come from the Saudi government or that it was a politi
02/08/2016
At a recent Northern Trust event in London, 40 percent of the attendees said they do not expect their investors to be engaged in UCITS and AIFMD considerations by December 2016
02/08/2016
More than a billion pounds a year 'lost to Government due to wealthy Britons avoiding tax'
'You can choose how much you want to pay, it’s pretty much down to your moral barometer'
02/08/2016
While the charges were not football-related, the verdict against a man who served on a body which monitored FIFA's finances is another blow to the image of the organisation facing an unprecedented corruption crisis.
02/08/2016
A new round of publicity for Scotland as an "offshore zone" began this month, more than six months after it was alleged that $1 billion had been funnelled out of poverty-stricken Moldova through Scottish shell companies.
02/08/2016
Odysseus’ dilemma sprang to mind as I listened to a presentation last week from a panel that included a FINRA attorney meant to provide guidance on situations where FINRA will target an individual employee in addition to or instead of the offending
02/08/2016
Jérôme Cahuzac, chosen by François Hollande to clamp down on tax avoidance, admitted he hid €600,000 in Swiss bank account
02/08/2016
Legal Group makes sweeping changes to its Board to drive renewed strategy
02/05/2016
This settlement is the result of Julius Baer’s proactive and long-standing cooperation with the DOJ’s investigation.
02/05/2016
Their prospective pleas came after Julius Baer in December disclosed that it had reached a deal with prosecutors to pay $547.25 million to resolve a probe born out of a U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion by Americans through Swiss banks.
02/05/2016
Mr Yak, a senior private banker with the local unit of Swiss bank BSI, did not appear at Friday's hearing, but the Straits Times understands he is in Singapore.