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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
offshore,
inheritance tax,
IHT,
tax havens,
tax avoidance,
domicile,
Naomi Smith,
tax haven,
non-dom,
tax evasion,
discretionary trusts,
tax saving,
IHT planning,
offshore trusts,
investment income,
offshore investment wrappers
As HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) steps up its mission to prevent British taxpayers illegally evading tax by holding their investments offshore and ‘forgetting’ to report them on their tax returns, we look at two legitimate opportunities to save tax through offshore set-ups: offshore investment wrappers and offshore trusts.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Business,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
property,
income tax,
Dave Jennings,
tax haven,
overseas,
income from property,
offshore assets,
evasion,
holiday homes,
commercial property,
avoidance,
Tax Investigations,
foreign property ownership,
foreign assets,
afluent teams,
homeowners
Holiday homes and offshore assets won’t be a personal tax haven for long as HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) continues to crack down on those not paying the correct tax with a new initiative looking into those who own property abroad.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HMRC,
offshore,
Dave Jennings,
investigation,
penalties,
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility,
Liechtenstein,
OECD,
amnesty,
LDF,
tax haven,
200%
Tax, or National Insurance, was bound to be in the headlines during the Budget and Election but very little beats the threat of a 200% penalty for attention. Combined with a
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Personal
| Tags: tax,
links,
HMRC,
offshore,
wealth,
women,
James Caan,
tax haven,
millionaire,
Duncan Bannatyne,
Felix Dennis,
phishing,
scams
Who wants to be a millionaire? Girls do, apparently – and they’re succeeding in ever increasing numbers. Also this month – how much counts as rich, the latest tax scams being carried out in the name of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and other wealth-related stories here on the Bespoke blog.
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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
These stories and more rounded up monthly on the Bespoke blog.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Infographic,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
offshore,
finance,
infographic,
banking,
tax haven,
IMF,
jurisdiction
While most people think of the traditional tax haven as being somewhere like Switzerland or Bermuda, there are in fact more than 60 offshore financial centres around the world, according to the IMF.
Grant Thornton’s latest infographic shows the scale and global spread of such offshore tax jurisdictions, locating them by country, city and island/political region…
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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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