10 Fast FACTs about FATCA.
10 Fast FACTs about FATCA 1. FATCA = Foreign Account Compliance Act 2. It is a behaviour modification technique to find U.S persons ‘offshore’ and reinforce the global trend towards greater...
View ArticleThe Queen’s Birthday List and the Immorality of Tax Avoidance.
How tedious that one of the Queen’s birthday honourees should be the subject of a political squabble about the morality or otherwise of his tax avoidance. Is it that neither of the political...
View ArticleCameron Calls for Multilateral Deals on Automatic Exchange of Tax...
(Knitted caps adorn fruit smoothies at the World Economic Forum in Davos) Speaking at the World Economic Forum in response to a question about whether the “enormous moral and public pressure to pay...
View ArticleTax Haven Blacklist Repealed, but Wait…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 On May 30th Argentina repealed its 13-year old blacklist of uncooperative jurisdictions which included almost half of the current membership of the United Nations.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...
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 ArticleWhy the G8 Needs Tax Havens.
Never mind the public grandstanding about tax havens, in the lead up to next week’s G8 Summit in Northern Ireland. To stay rich, not only do the world’s eight wealthiest countries want tax havens,...
View ArticleCameron Should Talk to Delaware if the G8 is Serious About a Public Register...
(Governor of the State of Delaware, Jack Markell) http://franhendy.com/2012/07/03/my-address-is-1209-north-orange-street-delaware-usa/ Filed under: FrontPage Tagged: beneficial owner, David Cameron,...
View ArticleAutomatic Exchange of Information: What You Need to Know Now.
Automatic Exchange of Information (AIE) is the systematic, periodic transmission of bulk confidential taxpayer information by authorities of one country to the country where the taxpayer, whose...
View ArticleG8 Summit Ends: Here’s What They Have Agreed.
Private enterprise drives growth, reduces poverty, and creates jobs and prosperity for people around the world. Governments have a special responsibility to make proper rules and promote good...
View ArticleWant Regular Post-G8UK Up-dates?
Find them here: http://franhendy.com/post-g8uk-updates/ Available now: UK PM has today released a New Action Plan to Prevent the Misuse of Companies and Other Legal Arrangements. It is replete with...
View ArticleIs Tax Avoidance a Moral Issue? 3 Videos to Help You Decide
Emotive stuff right? Here’s what I think Tax avoidance is not a moral issue; it is an issue of competitiveness. On the other hand, tax evasion crosses that imaginary line in the sand between what are...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: G20 Agrees Four ‘Next Steps’ to Tackle Global Tax Avoidance
Reporting on G20 Summit meetings being held in St. Petersburg and attended by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osbourne, Her Majesty’s Treasury has confirmed that the world...
View ArticleGoing Public: UK, EU and US to Unmask Real Owners of Companies….Will Trusts...
Today in London at the Open Government Partnership Summit, Prime Minister Cameron announced his government’s plans to make public, national registers of the ‘true’ , ‘shell’, ‘real’ or ‘beneficial’...
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 ArticleOP-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...
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