06/15/2015
The news was delivered following a formal inquiry to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA) by three members of Bitcoin Association Switzerland, submitted in Feb 2014. FTA’s answer clarified that bitcoin is not seen as a good or service, and is
06/15/2015
Those engaged in wholly or largely VAT exempt activities suffer irrecoverable VAT on the costs of bought in services such as advertising. Individual businesses or sectors may therefore need to consider the most VAT efficient structure to use.
06/12/2015
The first piece carries a 4 per cent interest rate and three-year principal maturity
06/12/2015
What is a hedge fund investor to do?
06/11/2015
THE Vatican has agreed to share tax information with the United States in its latest move to improve the reputation of its scandal-marred bank and crack down on tax cheats.
06/11/2015
IRS reminds taxpayers of important June deadlines for FATCA and FBAR filings
06/09/2015
​Putin signs law on offshore assets amnesty
“turn the offshore page of the economy and start living from scratch not thinking that either racketeers or law enforcement will come after you.”
06/09/2015
Hedge Funds Face $5 Billion Tax as Iceland Unveils New Law
Iceland presented legislation that will let it tax bank creditors trying to exit the $15 billion economy as the government unveils an historic bill to end capital controls.
06/09/2015
OSC seeks to beef up whistleblower program with cash rewards up to $1.5M
The Canada Revenue Agency began an offshore tax informant program in January 2014, offering up to 15 per cent of funds recovered in cases that see the CRA recoup more than $100,000.
06/08/2015
Recent Tax Treaty Developments In Cyprus by Philippos Aristotelous, Andreas Neocleous & Co
The proposed provisions are similar to existing provisions relating to information exchange except in one important regard.
06/08/2015
OECD releases Implementation Package for BEPS country-by-country reporting
Pushing forward efforts to boost transparency in international tax matters, the OECD today released a package of measures for the implementation of a new Country-by-Country Reporting plan developed under the OECD/G20 BEPS Project.
06/07/2015
Finance minister advocates domestic tax amnesty
Switzerland’s participation in agreements over the automatic exchange of information means that tax amnesty within the country's borders should be considered for a fair playing field
06/05/2015
Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and New Zealand join multilateral agreement to automatically exchange information
06/04/2015
This update supplements our previous alert of 3 November 2014 entitled “Impact of FATCA on BVI entities” and our alert of 23 April 2015 entitled “FATCA – Impending Deadlines for BVI Financial Institutions”.
06/04/2015
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.
06/04/2015
Webcast: 8 June 2015, 4pm
06/04/2015
One of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations has today launched its standalone tax consultancy division.
06/03/2015
Belgium has therefore decided to follow its Dutch neighbour's example and target income received from low-tax wealth structures.
06/03/2015
According to its 2014 report, the Labuan International Business and Financial Centre recorded a 12.3% growth in new companies registered in Labuan to 11,630 as per end-December
06/03/2015
Perhaps surprisingly, Switzerland is one the first to sign up to an automatic exchange agreement with the EU, with Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino set to follow. This means that very soon there will be no safe haven for hidden funds…