Sunday, 5th July 2009

 

Tax, trust and legal

  1. Isle of Man plans to end secret interest payments

    As governments stepped up their battle against bank secrecy, the U.K. crown dependency the Isle of Man said it will sign up to the European Union's automatic tax-information exchange accords.

  2. France gets tough on offshore money

    French banks will have to publish information about their activities in offshore centres in their annual reports, as the Sarkozy government intensifies its activities against undeclared money in tax havens.

  3. Bermuda bids to lure rich families after scrapping trust law

    The Bermudan government has changed its laws in a bid to make itself more attractive to multi-generational wealthy families seeking to establish trusts in offshore trust jurisdictions, following the example of other offshore jurisdictions Jersey and Guernsey.

  4. OECD Tax Forum: Users Of Tax Havens To Face Greater Scrutiny

    Individuals and companies using tax havens will face greater scrutiny from tax authorities around the world, a body of representatives of those authorities said Friday.

  5. OECD removes Monaco, Liechtenstein from tax list

    European tax havens Monaco, Liechtenstein and Andorra have been removed from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s uncooperative tax havens list.

  6. French Banks Promote Plan To Combat Tax Havens - Report

    The French bankers trade group has drawn up a set of proposals to present to fellow European banks for combatting tax havens, according to Le Figaro's Web site on Friday, citing the group's leadership.

  7. Liechtenstein wealth manager opens its doors to offshore US money

    Liechtenstein-based wealth manager Kaiser Ritter Partners is to offer accounts for US offshore assets that will be tax compliant with the Internal Revenue Service.

  8. ‘Flipping’ MPs could hurt property owners

    New research off the back of the controversy surrounding MP's property expense claims, has shown that there are substantial tax advantages from the "flipping" of second homes.

  9. Tax haven crackdown to hit offshore financial centres

    The number of offshore financial centres could shrink by half within the next five years as the worldwide crackdown on tax havens gathers pace, according to a prominent Jersey-based financial lobbyist.

  10. Singapore Stands Set to Defend Bank Secrecy, to a Point

    This city-state, which styles itself as Asia's Switzerland for offshore investors, will resist pressure to open its books to Western authorities, say people familiar with the government's thinking.

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Relocation, relocation, relocation

Banks have never been shy of firing staff at the merest whiff of a downturn. First the fat, then the muscle and finally the bone. In the past, cuts have been so deep that firms have found it hard to benefit when the markets rebounded, paying over the odds to restaff at speed. Such wild oscillations in staffing numbers are known as “doing a Merrill”.

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Donald Trump set a record when he sold a house for $95 million last year. It was, he proudly pointed out, the largest amount paid in the U.S. for a single-family home.

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