Swiss Banks Get Tough With European Clients
Swiss banks are tightening up on Europeans whom they suspect may be evading taxes in their home jurisdiction. It is…
Fast Track Deficit Reduction Measures For The UK and Europe
The new UK Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government has as a priority the task of slashing the massive budget deficit of…
Don?t Let Your Investment Risk Pyramid Become A Square
A growing number of investors we meet are aware that they need a well diversified spread of assets to protect…
Bond Funds For Income And Growth ? Helping You Beat Inflation
With inflation edging up again and interest rates still at record lows, many savers are now earning lower real returns…
Are Oil Prices On The Increase Again?
Consumer price inflation rose sharply between February and March in the Eurozone and UK. In Europe, year-on-year inflation increased from…
Paying Tax In Spain ? Exploding The Myths
Many British expatriates arrive in Spain to live without fully understanding the local tax situation or any obligations that may…
Capital Protected Investment Funds
While it has been over a year since share prices picked up, interest rates are still languishing at record lows…
Inflation On The Rise Again
Inflation has been thrust back in the spotlight with higher than expected increases for the UK and the Eurozone in…
Taxing Times For The UK
A new tax year has just begun in the UK, bringing with it a new top rate of income tax.…
Market Review ? 1st Quarter Of 2010
We have asked Russell Investments for a summary of global stockmarket performance over the first three months of the year…
Testing Times For The Euro
Over the last three years, the currency story for British expatriates has all been about the Pound Sterling and its…
Spain, The UK And Double Taxation
When people leave the UK to live in Spain, they worry about leaving the system they know, moving to a…
Can Switzerland Hang Onto Its Old Banking Secrecy Laws? – Part 1
Switzerland has a long tradition of banking secrecy, which, until recently, made it very easy for the wealthy to store…
Can Switzerland Hang Onto Its Old Banking Secrecy Laws? – Part 2
In Part 1 I looked at some of the ways in which Switzerland?s long held principle of banking secrecy is…
The UK?s Taxing Budget
While Chancellor Alistair Darling?s last Budget under the current administration contained few direct tax increases, it was nonetheless a budget…
Gaines-Cooper And UK Tax Residency ? The Court?s Judgement
The Court of Appeal has released its judgment on UK tax residency in the Gaines-Cooper case. This is probably the…
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