OP-ED: Why Europe is Ill-Suited For The Business of Blacklisting So-Called...
I AM NOT A FAN OF THE USE OF UNILATERAL MEASURES IN international diplomacy; including the use of tax haven or other types of blacklists related to compliance with global norms on...
View ArticleFHA TAX ALERT – Barbados 2016 Budget
FRANHENDY ATTORNEYS TAX ALERT Growth Returns to the Barbados Economy. Trajectory is Not Assured. No Additional Direct Tax Measures to Support the International Business and Financial Services Sector...
View ArticleWe’re Recruiting…
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View ArticleCanada to Discuss Its Response to BEPS …Affirms Its Commitment to a Free...
Canadian tax experts from industry and the public sector will discuss what Canada’s response should be to the OECD Base Erosion and profits Shifting (BEPS) agenda. Hosted by Bloomberg BNA and Baker...
View ArticleWhy is Mongolia Cancelling its Tax Treaties?
Don’t blame the IMF. True, one of their technical assistance teams,in a November 2012 report, completely rewrote Mongolia’s model tax treaty and cautioned that its existing treaties – in particular...
View ArticleAfrica & BEPS Value-Added: A Reality Check.
The OECD BEPS project has been marketed to developing countries, primarily those on the African Continent, as a way to re-balance the bargain often struck between government and multinationals...
View ArticleHow the OECD BEPS Project is Re-Writing International Tax Diplomacy.
(Pascal Saint-Amans Head of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration) If you are an International Business and Financial Services Centre whose competitive advantage lies in a network of tax...
View ArticleUK and US Split on BEPS Implementation.
(UK PM David Cameron and US President Barrack Obama.) It is increasingly likely that the U.K. and the U.S. governments will adopt different approaches to implementing the OECD’s final package of...
View ArticleWe’re Live..Pre-Ordering for ‘TAX DIPLOMACY’ Starts Today.
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View ArticleCanada Advances Global Tax Reform Agenda in 2014 Budget
Finance Minister Flaherty’s Federal budget predicts the current deficit in finances to continue until 2016 when he expects a surplus of 6.4 billion. Like his counterparts around the world his February...
View ArticleTIEAs Unworkable in Tackling Tax Evasion, Fraud and Criminality.
(Cayman Islands-Australia TIEA signing; Image:IslandJournal) Of course you already know this but for a recent illustration please read on. The Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) between the...
View ArticleBermuda, British Virgin Islands and Jersey Blacklisted Again by France as Tax...
(Bermuda Premier Craig Cannonier) And so it continues. Expressing its customary surprise and outrage at the territory’s inclusion in France’s latest tax haven blacklist, Bermuda has argued the...
View ArticleYour 8 Questions On the OECD Convention on Mutual Assistance in Tax Matters...
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View ArticleA Private Registry of Shell Company Owners…
…could be the G8′s Plan ‘B’ in the event they fail to agree on a pubic register of beneficial owners of shell companies. In fairness to Canada then, that country may not be the only ‘spoiler’ at next...
View ArticleIreland Admit It…You Are a Tax Haven.
..and frankly there is nothing wrong with that. Forgetting for the moment, and yes I know it is near impossible, strictly speaking, if according to the research findings of Professor James Stewart,...
View ArticleWhy OFCs Should Mind Their Own Business.
Download: memo-11.mp3 Filed under: Podcast Tagged: automatic exchange of tax information, blacklist, Convention on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters, exchange of tax information,...
View Article(PODCAST) Why OFCs Need to Mind Their Own Business.
Offshore wealth is now at 8.5 trillion dollars – a rise of 6.1 percent – and is expected to reach 11.2 trillion dollars by 2017. According to the Boston Consulting Group the top three destinations for...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Biggest FATCA Fear?
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View ArticleTax Haven Blacklist Repealed, but Wait…
That’s not the end of the story. On May 30th Argentina repealed its 13-year old blacklist of uncooperative jurisdictions which included almost half of the current membership of the United Nations. The...
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