04/01/2019
Confirmation earlier this month that the island’s legal substance requirements were considered compliant with EU requirements, has meant that the European Investment Fund is once again permitted to invest into Guernsey funds.
04/01/2019
Defined benefit pension schemes are exposed to longevity risk as they guarantee lifetime benefits for members.
04/01/2019
Big four accounting firm Deloitte warned that the government was going too far in its efforts to be seen to lead on international best practice.
04/01/2019
There is clear and growing evidence that Ireland is still acting as a “conduit”, facilitating large-scale tax avoidance.
04/01/2019
The EIF is a specialist provider of risk finance for small and medium-sized enterprises across Europe, backed by the European Investment Bank, European Union and a range of public and private banks and finance institutions.
04/01/2019
The move will be welcomed by the Guernsey funds industry.
03/29/2019
A significant increase on new incorporation numbers for the first three quarters of the two previous years.
03/29/2019
The schemes jeopardise and pose security risks to the bloc, European Commission says EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInPrint
03/29/2019
Atlantic International continues to fight a civil matter in the United States related to the Sanctuary Belize real estate scam busted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in which it denies wrongdoing.
03/29/2019
The accreditations are objective proof of our strong control environment.
03/29/2019
The EU list of noncooperative jurisdictions was initially released in December 2017 as part of the EU's initiative to tackle tax avoidance and evasion and promote fairer taxation within the EU and globally.
03/28/2019
“On a per capita basis, The Bahamas has the third highest GDP in the Western Hemisphere.
03/28/2019
The EU also placed seven other CARICOM member states on a monitoring list as the governments committed to undertake reforms by December 2019.
03/27/2019
£125m paid out to Harlequin resort investors
The companies dealt with the marketing, sale and construction of resorts on the Caribbean islands of St Vincent and Grenadines, St Lucia, Barbados, and the Cayman Islands.
03/27/2019
European Parliament report accuses seven countries, including Cyprus, of acting as tax havens
Lawmakers said EU states should “phase out” as soon as possible all existing schemes to market citizenship and residency permits to wealthy foreigners. Currently 20 of the 28 EU states run these programmes.
03/27/2019
Bermuda sending team to Europe to discuss removal from EU blacklist
The EU released its updated blacklist, which is part of its strategy to clamp down on tax evasion and avoidance, earlier this month, featuring a number of new additions including Bermuda.
03/26/2019
The standard also includes a simpler, more efficient voting mechanism for creditors to vote their acceptance or rejection, meaning CACs are designed as a tool to make debt restructurings easier for all countries.
03/26/2019
‘Serious doubts’ on 17 Black probes
03/26/2019
More than half of managers say that they consider service levels to be extremely important and may influence a change of jurisdiction.
03/26/2019
Meanwhile, the amendment to the NPO regulations reduces fees for filing changes.