Ireland is right to resist a global minimum corporation tax rate which could end up being a “masterclass in the law of unintended consequences”, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations. The comments from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group, come as Ireland’s […]
Nearly two-thirds of international tax professionals are preparing for transition to territorial system NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Seventy percent of respondents to a 36th Annual Ernst & Young LLP (EY) International Tax Conference poll indicated that they believe tax reform is likely to occur within the next six months and 63% are taking action to manage […]
A specific type of Hong Kong pension law framework, when structured compliantly, can produce a cross-border financial structure that is government regulated, registered and recognized to reduce the cost of tax for cross-border investment into and out of Canada. A Hong Kong ORSO is after tax contribution with the idea that withdrawals after age 55 […]
Globalization has been a one-way street of impositions by powerful countries; fiscal sovereignty has been violated by the strong; and tax competition remains under threat from the mighty. Indeed, if the current pattern of incursions, restrictions and false labelling of Caribbean jurisdictions as ‘tax havens’, and the Caribbean as a region of ‘high risk’, is […]
Word is that Morgan Stanley in NYC has reduced their Wealth Manager staff by 15% because a) Annual filing of data to automatic report in compliance to the OECD Common Reporting Standard is a minimum cost annually of $600.00 per account and they have 2.5 Trillion under management, so you can just imagine the reporting costs; […]
Beware of FATCA! It has recently come to our attention that some people have mistakenly been recommended to use an Escrow Account for privacy of overseas financial transactions. Criminal sanctions would apply to any U.S. Person use of an Escrow Account for the purpose of secrecy. Any U.S. Person participation, interest, legal right, beneficial ownership, […]
IRC 402(b) Global and Mobile International Retirement Plan International enforcement of Tax Compliance by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) took effect on 1 July 2014 and for the OECD it begins in 2017. This reporting of foreign financial accounts dramatically effects the way employers establish, administer and financially report international retirement plans […]
Many adults around the world struggle to perform basic financial calculations and understand how investment works studies show. Personal financial advice platform Fin.Tips is backing calls to boost financial education around the world and help individuals and families get a better grasp on their money and how they can make it work for them. An […]
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 countries are working to create an international framework to curb tax evasion, but differing attitudes over the recent back taxes imposed on Apple and other obstacles could stand in the way. There have been growing calls for stricter tax regulations around the world since the […]
The IMF and the World Bank are increasingly engaged with the challenge of addressing how tax avoidance and evasion affect developing countries. However, their approach needs to go much further to address the role played by multinational enterprises and tax havens in exacerbating inequality and undermining countries’ domestic revenues. The World Bank and the IMF […]
Structure Capital Offshore – The Only Tax Rules Compliant and Double Tax Agreements Non-Reporting and Excluded Account The pension regime is very important internationally and one thing the OECD organization has done amazingly well is Double Tax Agreements. They have come out with an amendment to the OECD model double tax agreement that introduces a […]
Eye-popping revelations in the Panama Papers have fanned concerns that the so-called “tax havens” lie at the centre of a giant web of criminal conduct. Some, including UK Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, have demanded that these offshore centres be “shut down”, and so disconnected from the global grid. The uproar invites examination of […]