Regulation

A look at the top stories from the Caribbean and Latin America this week

The EU has confirmed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Marshall Islands have been removed from its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, otherwise known as the tax blacklist.

With the current situation making it more likely that the UK will leave the EU without a deal on 31 October, IQ-EQ's group executive chairman, Serge Krancenblum examines if it is worth considering what this might mean for the private equity and real estate (PERE) and family office industries – both within the UK and also globally in terms of inward investment into the UK

Disintermediation & disruption, fee compression, and the return to a lower return environment are the key challenges currently facing the UK wealth management industry, Patrick Lance, a wealth director at 1762 from Brewin Dolphin told the audience at the fourth annual eprivateclient Accountancy Dinner last week (01/10/2019)

eprivateclient took a brief look at what’s been going on in Europe…

Japan and Singapore have retained a firm hold on first place in the Henley Passport Index, each with a visa-free/visa-on-arrival score of 190 out of a maximum 227

UK accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg has argued that the simplification of the UK’s tax system is "paramount, long overdue and must be carried out as a matter of urgency", would attract businesses wanting to relocate to the UK and should be the cornerstone of the next UK budget

This month Tax Titbits focuses on recent tax cases which comment on key areas for those advising private clients on their offshore structures or assisting them with their compliance obligations

The Labour Party’s recent pledge to abolish non-dom status may not have received the attention a statement of that kind would usually expect, perhaps as given the current political situation it seems unlikely to feature highly in Parliamentary business and of course Labour cannot enact any policies as they are not in power.

The Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) initiative, a joint OECD/UNDP programme launched in July 2015, has delivered nearly $500 million in additional revenue for developing countries.