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UK Planning Law Change For VAT Groups

18/01/2016(0)
The UK Government has announced a consultation on changes to the nation’s VAT grouping provisions, following the European Court of Justice’s rulings in the cases Larentia + Minerva and ... Read More
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Russian watchdog to inspect Microsoft, McDonald’s for compliance with personal data law

12/01/2016(0)
The regulator plans to hold over 1,000 scheduled inspections of compliance with the law on keeping of Russian users’ personal data on servers in Russia Central Federal District Department ... Read More
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BVI Removed From French ‘Blacklist’

28/12/2015(0)
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been removed from France’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions as a result of greater cooperation between the jurisdictions. The BVI said it had ... Read More
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Increase In Tax Penalties Issued To UK Financial Directors

23/12/2015(0)
The number of penalties issued under UK tax authority’s Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) regime more than doubled in 2014-15, according to research by international law firm Pinsent Masons. Pinsent ... Read More
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Russia Enacts Russian CFC Bill

26/11/2014(0)
On November 18, 2014, the Lower House of Russia’s Parliament, the State Duma, approved at second and third readings Bill No. 630365-6, which would introduce a new controlled foreign ... Read More
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Switzerland To Join Multilateral Convention On AEOI

20/11/2014(0)
The Swiss Federal Council has approved plans for the nation to join the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information, describing it as ... Read More
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HMRC recovers record £3.65bn in unpaid taxes

10/11/2014(0)
A record amount of unpaid tax has been recovered from avoidance schemes, evasion and fraud by HMRC’s top team of specialist investigators – up by almost a quarter in ... Read More
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BNP Paribas hires ex-U.S.Treasury official for compliance job

19/09/2014(0)
BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) has hired a former top official at the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions office, people familiar with the matter said, part of the French bank’s effort to ... Read More
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SEC gives $300,000 Whistleblower Award to Internal Auditor

01/09/2014(0)
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission is rewarding a corporate whistleblower whose actual job it is to blow the whistle on a company’s internal missteps. The ... Read More
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Royal Bank of Scotland to offload global Coutts arm

12/08/2014(0)
Royal Bank of Scotland said it planned to sell the international operations of Coutts, its private bank for wealthy clients including Queen Elizabeth II and David Beckham, just months ... Read More
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