Managers of Wealth Offshore

Offshore myth: How Africa lost $1 trillion to tax havens

The modern offshore business world appears pure Potemkin everywhere and nowhere.

German Government Targets Offshore Tax Avoidance

The bill also standardizes reporting obligations for direct and indirect holdings in foreign entities and synchronizes the deadline for information reporting with the deadline for tax returns.

Advisers who help tax evasion face fresh fines

The powers were announced in the 2015 Budget and have come into force this year.

Other small islands face debt struggles too

Financial advisers warned that the liability, attributed to the civil service defined benefit retirement system, could have caused the entire plan to collapse by 2024 if not addressed.

Fears as Scotland ‘tax haven’ adverts expand

The UK Government has signalled that at the very least it will consider bringing SLPs into a regime that, in theory, forces most other companies to declare who their ultimate beneficial owners are.

Jean-Claude Juncker blocked EU curbs on tax avoidance, cables show

Leaked papers reveal that as Luxembourg’s PM, the European commission president obstructed the bloc’s tax reforms efforts

HMRC empowered to name and shame tax evasion 'enablers'

Treasury says individuals or corporations who take deliberate action to help others evade paying tax face steep fines

US, Argentina Agree To Exchange Tax Information

It has been previously disclosed that, through the TIEA, the Argentine Government is hoping to reduce the estimated USD400bn in undeclared overseas assets held by Argentine residents. Its current tax amnesty, which entered into force in July this year, pr

Switzerland moves further to end bank secrecy

Planned deal with US underlines shift away from reputation as tax haven

Super rich pay LESS tax after clampdown

A special taskforce set up in 2009 has prosecuted just one super-rich tax cheat

Indonesia's tax amnesty reaches second deadline

Progress registering undeclared wealth still falling short of budget

Beneficial ownership platform takes shape

U.K. authorities will have expedited access to the beneficial ownership information from June 2017

Swiss Double Tax Agreements Enter Into Force

The protocol to the Albanian DTA was also signed in September 2015, and entered into force on December 1, 2016.

After FATCA pact signing, increased focus on possible tax evaders

The Banking Bureau under the FSC said that under the agreement the U.S. can ask for more detailed information on clients who do not cooperate with requests for information.

HMRC To Take Further Action On Tax Avoidance, Evasion

The authority said the Government will invest GBP800m

Argentines declare $90 billion in tax amnesty

The government hopes that funds declared under the tax amnesty will help jump-start growth and boost tax revenue.

Govt mulls tax amnesty to lure foreign wealth back

The government may link the scheme with certain enforcement measures

Mauritius Rejects 'Tax Haven' Label

Mauritius is committed to the early implementation of the Common Reporting Standard on the automatic exchange of financial account information, as developed by the OECD.

MALTA: Panama, how it shook Labour to its core, leaving it bruised but not crushed

The Panama Papers are an indelible stain on Labour’s desultory governance record.

It’s time to think about moving that spare billion dollars you’ve got stashed in a Caribbean tax haven

But an amendment to the UK parliament’s Criminal Finances bill tabled on Dec. 20 is aiming to change all that.