Financial Services & Tax

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Foreign investors welcome?

There has been a sharp drop in the number of people using the Tier 1 (investor) visa scheme since recent changes. Should applicants be concerned?

Precarious predictions

Surely the major financial firms have to scale back their predictions for next year? They've been horribly wrong for two years in a row now

Ripples in the water

Waves of political and economic upheavals streaming from the east to the west have left their mark on a turbulent year

Exhumation laws are anything but dead and buried

Robert Fookes considers the law on the exhumation of remains and the exceptions ?to the presumption that burial in consecrated ground is final

Changes, changes and more changes

The changes announced in the autumn statement alongside those to be brought in by the Finance Bill 2016 are sure to keep advisers on their toes in the new year

SRA's new consumer credit regulation receives LSB approval

Streamlined approach will benefit firms and clients, says SRA director

HMRC pushes ahead with criminalising failure to prevent tax evasion

New offence could become a 'damp squib' ignored by foreign companies, warns tax lawyer

Surviving three generations

Kate Hodson looks at the Asia Pacific experience of family offices and considers whether they can help to retain family wealth until the fabled third generation