2013 January 30

Hartnett’s back – at HSBC

Posted on January 30 2013

Sky has just reported: HSBC is to recruit a line-up of heavyweight figures including Britain’s former top taxman to oversee a new effort to combat
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Jersey agrees that a new European Union Savings Tax Directive is inevitable – and it will have to comply

Posted on January 30 2013

I’ve already noted this morning that Jersey has conceded that the UK has all the power in its relationship with the USA over FATCA. It
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The UK can block Jersey’s FATCA deal if it wishes, and there’s nothing Jersey can do about it

Posted on January 30 2013

Last November I helped expose the fact that the UK was demanding that the Crown Dependencies grant it full automatic information exchange as a condition of agreeing
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Nearly one third of all US foreign profits are in Bermuda, the Netherlands and Ireland

Posted on January 30 2013

It’s worth recalling in the light of my last post what the White House had to say about offshoring of profits in 2009. In that
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Transfer pricing into major tax havens is increasing in US multinationals

Posted on January 30 2013

Reuters has reported this morning that: U.S.-based global companies are increasingly shifting profits into tax havens like Bermuda and Switzerland, a US government report said,
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