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Spies, divorce lies and Swiss bank accounts – May wealth links

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Personal | Tags: tax, links, HNWIs, economy, charity, divorce, Switzerland, private banking, iPad, private jets, tax rises, luxury goods, Sunday Times Rich List, donations, benefactor

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Our monthly pick of the web as it relates to high earners and HNWIs – including why your iPad won’t buy you luxury and the global trend for tax rises on the rich.

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Tax truths behind the Dragons’ Den domicile row

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, entrepreneurs, tax planning, investment, offshore, Sue Knight, IHT, James Caan, domicile, non-dom, Cayman Islands, non-domicile, Inheritance Tax, Duncan Bannatyne, Pakistan, earnings, Dragons’ Den

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The reported rift between the Dragons’ Den entrepreneurs James Caan and Duncan Bannatyne centres around Caan’s domicile status for UK tax purposes. Here we review non UK domicile (non-dom) tax planning and explain why Bannatyne thinks this gives Caan an unfair advantage…

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UK election 2010: business reaction

Friday, May 07, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business | Tags: business, links, economy, government, reaction, election, British Chambers of Commerce, CBI, stockmarket, tax rises, hung parliament, uk election

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As the UK wakes up to the first hung parliament since 1974, what are the views of business leaders, economists and analysts? And do you agree with them?

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Expect tax rises to be kept in the dark until after the election

Wednesday, May 05, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, Richard Jameson, Alistair Darling, tax policy, PSBR, election, NICs, national insurance, tax rises, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Labour

So far, the UK General Election has been marked less by the usual debates over different tax policy minutiae and more by who will cut spending from what, when they intend to do it, and at what rate.

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