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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HMRC,
offshore,
Dave Jennings,
investigation,
penalties,
legislation,
law,
human rights
As the recession started to bite, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) relaxed its enforcement of debts for some taxpayers facing cashflow problems. Paying arrears by instalments has helped many businesses but may become even more important as new PAYE penalties for employers start in April 2010…
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Thursday, March 04, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
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Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
HNWIs,
Sue Knight,
tax havens,
domicile,
residence,
Gaines-Cooper,
residency,
IR20,
UK residents,
status,
Finance Bill 2008
The
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
HNWIs,
Richard Jameson,
corporation tax,
domicile,
Gaines-Cooper,
Ireland,
high net worth individuals,
residency,
IR20,
Irish domicile levy,
2010 Finance Bill
Ireland has been held up as a country with a progressive and attractive tax regime, so the proposal for a domicile levy has taken Irish high net worth individuals (HNWIs) aback. On the other side of the Irish Sea, the recent findings in the Messrs Davies and James and Mr Gaines-Cooper case regarding
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HMRC,
offshore,
Dave Jennings,
investigation,
penalties,
banking,
legislation,
Switzerland,
Swiss,
Isle of Man,
Robert Huitson,
law,
UBS,
human rights,
backdated
I am not talking about the HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) version of Doctor Who, as scary as that may sound, now comes something even worse. One of the main gripes we often hear from business’ about our tax system is the lack of certainty. Should HMRC, therefore, be authorised to change the law or its interpretations retrospectively, plunging its victims into a costly time warp and sending them singing for their supper?
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Friday, February 12, 2010 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
Francesca Lagerberg,
capital gains tax,
inheritance tax,
income tax,
tax manifesto,
marriage,
saving,
transferable allowances,
marriage and tax,
tax saving,
tax benefits
Marriage and tax is becoming an increasing area for debate as the political parties clash heads over whether the tax system should recognise marriage. So why do people think the system is not working, what tax breaks do you currently get when you’re married, and how best can you utilise them?
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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)
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 | Posted by: Paul Roberts
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
tax amnesty,
NDO,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
Paul Roberts,
UK tax liabilities,
offshore funds,
protect your wealth,
Tax havens
…but only by a matter of five weeks. The deadline to register under the
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
offshore,
Dave Jennings,
tax havens,
disclosure,
Protect Your Wealth,
penalties,
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility,
tax amnesty,
Liechtenstein,
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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Monday, July 20, 2009 | Posted by: Paul Roberts
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HNWIs,
offshore,
compliance,
tax havens,
disclosure,
Protect Your Wealth,
tax amnesty,
Liechtenstein,
Offshore Disclosure Facility,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
OECD,
Paul Roberts,
tax prosecutions
So, a
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