Regulation & Tax

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s (HKEX) broadening of its listing regime in 2018 has had a clear and almost immediate impact; the HKEX raised the third-highest amount of IPO capital in the world (behind the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ) over the first half of 2019

Global fiduciary services provider Equiom has been selected by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) as master trustee on the DIFC Employee Workplace Savings Scheme

Most trust and estate practitioners will have experienced beneficiaries being unhappy with a decision made by trustees. Perhaps less common is a situation where the trustees simply cannot make a decision because they cannot agree between themselves. What happens then?

Most trust and estate practitioners will have experienced beneficiaries being unhappy with a decision made by trustees. Perhaps less common is a situation where the trustees simply cannot make a decision because they cannot agree between themselves. What happens then?

The Supreme Court has ruled that a gift by will to a charitable trust subject to the law of Jersey is exempt from inheritance tax

The Queen’s Speech – delivered in the UK Houses of Parliament this week - has brought ‘no fault’ divorce back onto the agenda

The number of civil partnerships formed in England and Wales increased by 5.3 percent in 2018 to 956

Labour’s tax policies represent the most dramatic changes away from the current tax regime in a generation, argued accounting and tax advisory firm Blick Rothenberg

HMRC investigations into underpaid Inheritance Tax raised an extra £271 million in 2018/19, a nine percent increase from £249 million in 2017/18, private client law firm Wilsons has revealed

New research from UK accountancy firm Saffery Champness has revealed that HMRC’s COP8 and COP9 investigations yielded a total of £610,292,968 for the Treasury in the financial years 2016/17 – 2018/19