Corporate Blog

In the Autumn statement it was announced that the ‘slab’ rule under which SDLT is currently charged on residential properties at a single percentage of the whole price will be abolished and instead it will [...]

Foreign Direct Investment can be either inward or outward.  Inward is where the economy receives from non-resident investors and outward is where resident makes investments into external economies. Government policies are often directed at attracting [...]

Despite promising to simplify taxation in its pre-election campaigning, the coalition has led to more complication not less according to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). In its report, the ACCA have stated that [...]

Jersey has recently announced the setting up of the World’s first Bitcoin investment fund.  The fund, known as the Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), is a regulated open ended fund and is due to [...]

The UK government has launched a consultation to reform the way employees get tax relief on allowable expenses. Currently employers apply to the HMRC for a dispensation, this allows the employer to pay specific expenses [...]

Portugal has implemented a major reform of its Corporate Income Tax Code. This includes a participation exemption method for dividends and capital gains, including a withholding tax exemption on outbound dividends providing certain conditions are [...]

Security interests in movable assets are similar to pledges with the added advantage whereby the debtor remains in possession of the asset which acts as collateral.  New regulations have been introduced in Panama in an [...]

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has accepted Guernsey as a member of the Berne Convention.  This convention provides protection of literary and artistic works and is the most widely recognised copyright convention in the [...]

Vulnerable Beneficiary Trust’s apply to persons who are either physically disabled, mentally disabled or a child whose parents are deceased.  These qualify for special income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax treatment and protect the beneficiaries [...]

Panamanian companies that have undergone a formal dissolution now have the option of reactivation. This reactivation of a Corporation in Panama is possible at any time before its liquidation has been finalised, it is also possible if [...]