07/06/2014
Cayman mostly FATCA compliant
The Cayman Islands Banking Association says almost 15,000 of Cayman’s financial institution have registered with the Internal Revenue Service in the United States.
07/06/2014
The Cayman Islands Banking Association says almost 15,000 of Cayman’s financial institution have registered with the Internal Revenue Service in the United States.
07/04/2014
Luxembourg is used by many multinationals including online retailer Amazon
07/04/2014
The Income Tax Office introduced a Compliance and Investigation Unit in the late 1980s to address domestic tax evasion and tax avoidance.
07/03/2014
Bank of the Bahamas incurred a further $2.311 million in loan loss provisions during the quarter to end-March 2014, and Mr McWeeney hinted that more were to come.
07/03/2014
The Finance Ministry is pushing ahead with its program to entice Russian-owned offshore firms to repatriate capital.
07/03/2014
Spain taxes the worldwide income of residents and the Spanish income of non-resident
07/03/2014
They’ve served their purpose by stimulating FATCA, and that period of work was absolutely essential to lay the groundwork for the new global structure of tax information.”
07/03/2014
Australia is to chair the G20 leader's summit in Brisbane in November and Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey have put on the agenda discussion of tax evasion and profit shifting.
07/02/2014
A global crackdown on offshore tax havens following the financial crisis and a 2008 wrangle with Germany over stolen bank data have forced the principality to come clean over its tax policies
07/02/2014
FACTA imposes due diligence, information reporting and control obligations on non-US financial institutions for certain US persons who maintain relationships with these institutions.
07/01/2014
The Internal Revenue Service is about to get an unprecedented look at bank accounts and investments U.S. citizens hold abroad, through a law that is making it harder to hide assets from the tax collector.
07/01/2014
FATCA will provide an effective framework for our institutions and regulators
07/01/2014
The BVI Government released a statement (30 June 2014) confirming that it has signed a Model 1B (non-reciprocal) Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) in relation to the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
07/01/2014
The BVI Government has signed a Model 1B (non-reciprocal) Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) in relation to the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), it was announced on 30 June 2014.
06/30/2014
Bermuda to France: What’s the problem?
06/30/2014
The ATO is targeting families whose predecessors may have shifted money offshore years ago
06/30/2014
The US Treasury has spent much of the past several years pressing the issue on some of the world's most powerful and secret banking centers with threats of punitive action if they do not join in.
06/29/2014
Around 160 individuals have already come forward as part of the amnesty program
06/29/2014
As shown by recent headlines, the pressure is mounting on individuals who have yet to come into compliance with their reporting obligations concerning undisclosed offshore accounts.
06/27/2014
The Non-Resident Landlords Scheme is a scheme for dealing with the UK taxation of UK rental income of individuals, companies and trusts that are not resident in the UK.