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Will the Swiss tax deal be full of holes?

Thursday, September 22, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax planning, HMRC, offshore, income tax, Dave Jennings, disclosure, tax havens, investigation, banking, penalties, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, tax amnesty, Switzerland, Liechenstein, Swiss, savings, evasion, Tax Investigations, UK-Swiss deal

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The new UK-Swiss deal clamping down on tax evasion is expected to drive UK investors into the arms of Liechtenstein – with significant tax savings possible through the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF).

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Seek amnesty or risk investigation as HMRC’s tax net tightens on offshore bank accounts

Friday, July 08, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, HMRC, offshore, Dave Jennings, disclosure, tax havens, investigation, banking, penalties, Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, tax amnesty, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, amnesty, LDF, HSBC, evasion, Tax Investigations

With a new round of tax investigations being launched into customers of HSBC in Switzerland, HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) drive against holders of undeclared offshore bank accounts is heating up. Waiting to come forward could result in higher tax and penalties, so what are the tax amnesty options?

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Missing gold bars, tax-free giving and a global party – December wealth links

Wednesday, December 01, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Personal | Tags: links, HNWIs, China, charity, banking, Liechtenstein, divorce, Switzerland, art, investments, gold, wine

Our monthly pick of the web as it relates to high earners and HNWIs.

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Jet set pets, boutique banks and wealthy families in a tax panic – September wealth roundup

Friday, September 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: links, HNWIs, finance, HNWI, banking, yachts, Switzerland, art, investments, wine, Swiss, private jets, secret, memorabilia, sayings

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Our monthly pick of the web as it relates to high earners and HNWIs.

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Spies, divorce lies and Swiss bank accounts – May wealth links

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Personal | Tags: tax, links, HNWIs, economy, charity, divorce, Switzerland, private banking, iPad, private jets, tax rises, Sunday Times Rich List, luxury goods, donations, benefactor

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Our monthly pick of the web as it relates to high earners and HNWIs – including why your iPad won’t buy you luxury and the global trend for tax rises on the rich.

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Beware the time-travelling taxman

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, HMRC, offshore, Dave Jennings, investigation, banking, legislation, penalties, Switzerland, Swiss, Isle of Man, Robert Huitson, law, UBS, human rights, backdated

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I am not talking about the HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) version of Doctor Who, as scary as that may sound, now comes something even worse. One of the main gripes we often hear from business’ about our tax system is the lack of certainty. Should HMRC, therefore, be authorised to change the law or its interpretations retrospectively, plunging its victims into a costly time warp and sending them singing for their supper?

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Flying cars, top spec iPads and Africa’s newest tax haven – wealth roundup

Thursday, February 04, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Personal | Tags: links, India, emerging markets, Switzerland, iPad, tax haven, auctions, vintage, Ghana, Cadbury, flying car, car collecting

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These stories and more rounded up monthly on the Bespoke blog.

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No place to hide - is this the end of ‘tax havens’?

Thursday, June 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: financial, New Disclosure Opportunity, Switzerland, tax haven, Liechenstein, g20 summit, offshore bank accounts

There is much talk of a new global era of transparency in banking, but does it really amount to anything? And what, if any, are the consequences for individuals in the UK?

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