Taxpayers

tax-treaty

Restriction of Liechtenstein route for tax disclosure

18/08/2014(0)
The UK Government has acted to restrict the situations where taxpayers can use a government agreement with Liechtenstein to get a more generous settlement from HMRC. A joint decision ... Read More
credit-suisse

Credit Suisse Offers Guidance to 13 Swiss Banks in U.S. Tax Probes

26/05/2014(0)
Thirteen Swiss banks face rising stakes in criminal tax-evasion probes after Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) set a new standard for punishment in the U.S. crackdown on offshore tax ... Read More
HMRC

HMRC doubles inquiries into self-assessors

19/05/2014(0)
The number of taxpayers whose financial affairs HM Revenue & Customs investigated in the past 12 months has almost doubled, in line with the growing haul from such self-assessors. ... Read More
hong-kong

Hong Kong Collected Record Tax Revenue In 2013-14

05/05/2014(0)
Hong Kong’s Commissioner of Inland Revenue Wong Kuen-fai has announced that the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) set another annual record and collected HKD243.5bn (USD31.4bn) in tax revenue in 2013-14, ... Read More
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“Killer B” anti-abuse regulations are on the way

29/04/2014(0)
Recognizing that taxpayers are exploiting the rules in ways it had not intended, the IRS on Friday announced that it will amend the existing regulations on cross-border reverse triangular ... Read More
HMRC

How much is your personal data worth?

22/04/2014(0)
British ministers are looking at changes that will allow HMRC to sell taxpayers’ data to third parties. Putting aside the privacy issues, how much is personal data worth? As ... Read More
tax proposal

How about… A Global Tax on the Superrich?

14/04/2014(0)
Bill Gates washes his own dishes, as we learned this year from his Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but he’s certainly not trying to save money. The world’s ... Read More
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HMRC unable to disclose figures for civil fraud investigations

10/04/2014(0)
Only six taxpayers a month voluntarily acknowledge that they have committed fraud using a disclosure facility set up by HMRC at the beginning of 2012 The facility, which encourages ... Read More
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