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06 Apr, 2018
Cyprus still keeps a high position as one of the most attractive jurisdictions for international tax planning in the world. Transparency of tax legislation, a low rate of the corporate tax, non-taxation of dividends...
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15 Feb, 2018
Nobody likes paying tax but it is something almost all of us have to do. We would all like to pay a little less tax to the tax authorities but we often overlook simple ways of doing so. It doesn't help that the UK tax rules are complicated but...
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03 Aug, 2017
Lack of efficient ways to receive financial information from foreign countries has been a serious obstacle to the government's desire to impose tax on residents' income received and stored abroad...
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30 May, 2017
When it comes to trusts, New Zealand (NZ) and the United States of America (US) are remarkably similar, as they appear to be the only OECD countries, with recognizable "foreign trust" regimes...
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16 May, 2017
I have been dealing with trusts, from many different jurisdictions, for more than 25 years. Not all those trusts have been discretionary but the majority have been and that is still the case today...
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02 Feb, 2017
In the 2015 Summer Budget the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced reforms to the rules regarding the taxation of people who hold UK non-domiciled status ("non-doms")...
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02 Feb, 2017
The UK government announced at the outset of these reforms that it intended there to be some protection for those individuals who had set up offshore trusts before they became deemed-domiciled...
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28 Dec, 2016
There have also been significant fiscal changes since our last news later, mainly aimed at UK Res Non Doms. Perhaps the most significant one being the use of offshore entities to hold London property.
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04 Aug, 2016
An Excluded Property Trust is brought into being by a valid and legally binding Trust arrangement ("Deed of Settlement") by which a person, not domiciled in the UK (or UK deemed domicile), is able to protect overseas assets from a future...
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04 Feb, 2016
Last year, the Gibraltar Government introduced the Private Trust Company Act 2015, which will no doubt prove an especially attractive proposition for Family Offices...
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