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Thursday, January 21, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Infographic,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
finance,
offshore,
infographic,
banking,
tax haven,
IMF,
jurisdiction
While most people think of the traditional tax haven as being somewhere like Switzerland or Bermuda, there are in fact more than 60 offshore financial centres around the world, according to the IMF.
Grant Thornton’s latest infographic shows the scale and global spread of such offshore tax jurisdictions, locating them by country, city and island/political region…
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
Dave Jennings,
disclosure,
health,
investigation,
penalties,
NHS,
tax amnesty,
medical,
doctors,
plan,
THP,
public borrowing
Before the ink is dry on HM Revenue and Customs’s (HMRC) Continue Reading
Friday, January 08, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: Richard Jameson,
budget,
legislation,
tax policy,
PBR,
consultation,
tax manifesto,
petition,
Monetary Policy Committee,
MPC,
committee,
pre-budget report
The Pre-Budget Report is the second most important date in the tax calendar, second only to the annual Budget. It is often a time when a flurry of draft legislation is announced. In the run-up to a general election, the PBR often heralds the drawing up of battle lines. The danger with this is that political considerations can cloud tax policy. Remember the 10p tax debacle?
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Friday, January 08, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: business,
Francesca Lagerberg,
government,
tax policy,
tax manifesto,
petition,
Monetary Policy Committee,
e-petition,
thinktank
We need your help. As part of our Tax Manifesto campaign, Grant Thornton is urging the Government to set up a specialist body of business and tax experts to help formulate UK tax policy. Francesca Lagerberg, Grant Thornton’s Head of Tax, lodged an e-petition with 10 Downing Street to set up a tax policy committee. It takes just a minute or two to sign and we need just 500 signatures to get a response. So please sign the petition now! And don’t leave tax just to the politicians. For more information, read on…
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