Financial Services & Tax

Articles

Government's plans for tax avoidance penalties are 'premature'

Accelerated payment notices have already been suspended and their long-term future remains unclear

Making light out of loss

Securing conditional tax relief benefits is never a straightforward undertaking. You could end up with more tax liabilities than you started out with, warns Brian Garner

Getting the numbers right

Accountancy firm, Carter Backer Winter, explores some of the finer details required to secure the best divorce settlement for your client

60-second interview: Alison Parry

There are plenty of opportunities to be exploited in the Asian and Middle Eastern fiduciary markets, Alison Parry tells PCA

Tax avoidance promoters to publicise their 'monitoring' status

'People who advise on good tax planning…should have nothing to fear from this crackdown'

Avoidance or evasion?

Blurring the fine line between legitimate tax planning and illegal tax evasion neither helps the industry, nor does it inform the public debate, says James Hender

HMRC issues almost £100m in tax return penalties

Tax payers could find themselves with a daily penalty increase if they continue to fail to submit their return

Ahead of the curve

Threatening to blacklist jurisdictions which fail to compile public registers of the beneficial owners of trusts and companies is all well and good, but politicians would do well to understand the legislations already in place in off-shore financial centres, says Dominic Wheatley.