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Cuckoo clock is ticking on Swiss bank accounts

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax planning, HMRC, offshore, income tax, Dave Jennings, tax avoidance, tax havens, disclosure, investigation, banking, penalties, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, Liechtenstein, tax amnesty, Switzerland, LDF, tax evasion, savings, offshore bank accounts, Tax Investigations, UK-Swiss deal, secrecy

The UK-Swiss tax deal just got more expensive for Swiss bank account holders following changes to a similar agreement between Switzerland and Germany. Find out exactly what the changes mean for UK holders of Swiss bank accounts…

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Will the Swiss tax deal be full of holes?

Thursday, September 22, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax planning, HMRC, offshore, income tax, Dave Jennings, tax havens, disclosure, investigation, banking, penalties, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, tax amnesty, Switzerland, savings, Liechenstein, evasion, Swiss, Tax Investigations, UK-Swiss deal

The new UK-Swiss deal clamping down on tax evasion is expected to drive UK investors into the arms of Liechtenstein – with significant tax savings possible through the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF).

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Seek amnesty or risk investigation as HMRC’s tax net tightens on offshore bank accounts

Friday, July 08, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, HMRC, offshore, Dave Jennings, tax havens, disclosure, investigation, banking, penalties, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, Liechtenstein, tax amnesty, Switzerland, amnesty, LDF, HSBC, evasion, Tax Investigations

With a new round of tax investigations being launched into customers of HSBC in Switzerland, HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) drive against holders of undeclared offshore bank accounts is heating up. Waiting to come forward could result in higher tax and penalties, so what are the tax amnesty options?

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Tutors, eBay sellers and tradesmen become tax targets

Thursday, June 16, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business | Tags: tax, HMRC, disclosure, penalties, tax amnesty, amnesty, teachers, eBay, tutors

Three more groups who are perceived to be underpaying tax are to come under the scrutiny of the taxman.

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Plumbers tax amnesty could open floodgates for all

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, Dave Jennings, disclosure, investigation, Protect Your Wealth, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, Liechtenstein, tax amnesty, amnesty, LDF, PTSP, trades, plumbers

In August, tax investigations partner Grant Summers asked whether there should be a

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Medical professionals under HMRC’s microscope

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)

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‘Tax amnesty’ deadline extended (again)…

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 | Posted by: Paul Roberts
Categories: Business, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, HMRC, tax amnesty, NDO, New Disclosure Opportunity, Paul Roberts, offshore funds, UK tax liabilities, protect your wealth, Tax havens

…but only by a matter of five weeks. The deadline to register under the

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What’s Liechtenstein got to do, got to do with it?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, offshore, Dave Jennings, tax havens, disclosure, penalties, Protect Your Wealth, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, Liechtenstein, tax amnesty, NDO, New Disclosure Opportunity, LDF

What’s Liechtenstein but a sweet old-fashioned notion? What’s Liechtenstein got to do, got to do with it? Who needs a haven when a haven can be broken? With recent pressures on UK investors to

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