06/30/2015
The Best’s Briefing, titled, “A.M. Best Comments on Proposed U.S. Tax Changes of Offshore (Re)Insurers, states that companies would likely seek operating alternatives to ensure capital efficiency if the tax benefits for offshore companies are
06/26/2015
The taxman in the United States is reminding people with one or more bank or financial accounts outside the country that they need to file their Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts by the end of June.
06/26/2015
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has introduced legislation aimed at preventing offshore tax avoidance by some U.S. hedge fund “reinsurers.”
06/26/2015
The legislation that was introduced is the Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2015.
06/25/2015
While the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act became law in 2010, it has been slowly transitioning to implementation
06/21/2015
FATCA was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2010 to target non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers using foreign accounts.
06/19/2015
The U.S. Model Income Tax Treaty generally represents the United States’ opening position in treaty negotiations
06/12/2015
What is a hedge fund investor to do?
06/11/2015
IRS reminds taxpayers of important June deadlines for FATCA and FBAR filings
06/03/2015
Billionaire hedge fund founder Leon Cooperman takes issue with the former secretary of state's portrayal of his profession.
06/02/2015
In her recent testimony before Congress Caroline Ciraolo Acting Assistant Attorney General stated the enforcement priorities for the Tax Division. Among the four areas of focus is Offshore Tax Evasion.
06/02/2015
El Salvador became a member of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in 2011.
06/02/2015
Presidential candidates must come clean on America’s highly controversial global tax law - and more must urgently be done to repeal it, not least because it is “a blue print for worse to come”, warns the boss of one of the world’s
05/27/2015
The settlement came under a voluntary Justice Department programme launched in 2013 that enables Swiss banks to avoid prosecution by disclosing cross-border activities that helped U.S. account holders conceal assets and income.
05/26/2015
Tax avoidance may once have been its main purpose.
05/26/2015
Some observers are calling this the real and final end of Swiss bank privacy tradition, which mostly dates to the 1930s.
05/19/2015
The world’s richest man, Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates, last night stuck a stick into the eye of capitalist icon Ayn Rand.
05/15/2015
There will be more additions as more and more Swiss banks conclude their discussions as part of the U.S. settlement.
05/13/2015
On 16 April the House of Representatives voted to repeal estate tax, currently 40% with a $5.5 million exemption for individuals and an $11 million exemption for couples.
05/13/2015
Pressure is growing to halt its pernicious impact.