We cannot underestimate how fundamental the issue of VAT is in Brexit negotiations. If the changes made to the Cross-border trade bill last Monday were to enter the UK’s legal framework after it leaves the customs union, the impact on over 130,000 of the UK’s firms would be catastrophic. Below, Gareth Kobrin, CEO of VAT […]
British tax-payers should not be asked to foot the Bill to set up an alternative to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) unless there are tangible benefits to the quality of justice, a Bar Council Brexit expert has told Peers as he warned against “reinventing the wheel.” Giving evidence to the House of Lords EU […]
The total value of fraud has risen 538% to £2.11bn in the last 15 years and is up 6.5% from £1.99bn in 2016, according to new research from BDO LLP. When it comes to type of fraud, BDO’s FraudTrack report found 550 cases of UK fraud were tax-related and the reported value of these cases […]
What are common cases you are instructed on as an expert witness? As an ex insurance broker, commencing a career in 1970 my principal expert engagements concern broking and insurance market practice. When insurance fails to pay out, the consequences for the business or individual can be life-changing. Typically, there are two principal remedies available […]
There’s a new tax law in town. It passed without a single vote from Democrats in the House or the Senate, and it’s a huge windfall for the richest Americans, including President Donald Trump. But Republicans didn’t just want any new tax law, they wanted to reform the tax code. To give the richest Americans […]
The estimated total corporate tax benefit of $74 billion per year is not a game-changer according to Alastair George, Chief Investment Strategist at Edison Investment, who below explains to Lawyer Monthly how the tax reform may in fact result in quite a modest positive for US equities. The prospective headline cut to the US corporate […]
The European Commission has recently published a series of recommendations for Member States on how to better work together towards better direct tax and VAT collection for national budgets. It’s calling on Member States to continue working together for more efficient tax collection and to better fight tax fraud and avoidance. In particular, the results […]
Ronaldo Apelbaum speaks to Lawyer Monthly all about tax in Brazil; where the country needs to focus on certain tax issues, Ronaldo reassures us that movements are starting to address such problems, and touches on what companies should do to avoid causing tax issues in the future. How has the business sector progressed over […]
Following the recent Bermuda cyber-attacks, the Panama and the Paradise papers, the EU has released a blacklist of 17 non-compliant tax jurisdictions, with 47 countries getting off with a warning notice. Some of the countries mentioned on the blacklist include South Korea, Mongolia, Namibia, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Meanwhile […]
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