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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, 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
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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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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Thursday, August 19, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HMRC,
offshore,
disclosure,
tax havens,
penalties,
Offshore Disclosure Facility,
NDO,
amnesty,
evasion,
medical,
Grant Summers
With hundreds of billions of national debt and
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Thursday, April 08, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
Sue Knight,
tax havens,
domicile,
HMRC6,
residence,
Gaines-Cooper,
residency,
IR20,
UK residents,
non-residency,
status
An intolerable uncertainty now exists for UK non-residents following the outcome of the Judicial Review hearings of Davies, James and Gaines-Cooper – as I outlined last month in
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Friday, March 05, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Personal
| Tags: links,
tax planning,
tax havens,
Richard Branson,
retirement,
wealth management,
Lewis Hamilton,
submarine,
tax exiles,
offshore banking
Find out why racing driver Lewis Hamilton (left) and other non-UK residents should be worried about the latest HMRC’s crackdown. Plus, see the latest millionaire’s plaything – a luxury submersible. These wealth-related stories and more rounded up monthly on the Bespoke blog.
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Thursday, March 04, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
HNWIs,
Sue Knight,
tax havens,
domicile,
residence,
Gaines-Cooper,
residency,
IR20,
UK residents,
status,
Finance Bill 2008
The
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Monday, November 02, 2009 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: offshore,
Dave Jennings,
tax havens,
Protect Your Wealth,
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility,
tax policy,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
NDO,
G20,
Cayman Islands,
Bermuda,
backlash,
Lloyds Bank
Back in June, we asked,
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
offshore,
Dave Jennings,
disclosure,
tax havens,
Protect Your Wealth,
penalties,
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility,
tax amnesty,
Liechtenstein,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
NDO,
LDF
What’s Liechtenstein but a sweet old-fashioned notion? What’s Liechtenstein got to do, got to do with it? Who needs a haven when a haven can be broken? With recent pressures on UK investors to
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Monday, July 20, 2009 | Posted by: Paul Roberts
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HNWIs,
offshore,
compliance,
disclosure,
tax havens,
Protect Your Wealth,
tax amnesty,
Liechtenstein,
Offshore Disclosure Facility,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
OECD,
Paul Roberts,
tax prosecutions
So, a
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