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UK inheritance tax: The mounting impact on British families
UK inheritance tax is no longer a niche concern. Frozen allowances, rising asset values, pensions entering the tax net and tighter reliefs mean many...
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The Perils Of Probate When Living Overseas
As an expatriate you are likely to have assets in more than one country. Besides those in your country of…
Do You Make These Common Investment Mistakes?
One of the key rules of investing is that you need to diversify your assets to spread risk and potentially…
QROPS And The Lump Sum Debate In Spain
Many British expatriates living in Spain have taken advantage of the opportunity to move their UK private pensions into a…
Switzerland Still Under Scrutiny
While Switzerland once had the reputation as the place to keep savings out of reach of the taxman, those days…
Watch Out, Are Fraudsters About?
As another team of fraudsters have been arrested for scamming retirees out of their savings, this is a good time…
Proposed French Tax Changes: French Residents
The draft French Finance Bill for 2011 proposes some important new tax changes which will offer opportunities for both French…
Proposed French Tax Changes: Non-French Residents
The 2011 Budget proposes some tax changes for non-French tax residents who own French property. Tax on Second Homes Owned…
Going Global
One of the basic rules of successful investing is diversification. International investment is a well-established concept in investment management and…
Tax Residence Advice For Leaving The UK
The Revenue?s Booklet HMRC 6 – HMRC 6 replaced IR20 in 2010. It emphasises that many different factors apply to…
The Best Of Both Worlds? Capital Protected Funds
One question we wealth managers often get asked is if there are any risk free investments. I?m afraid the short…
The Bank Of England Inflation Report And Interest Rates
While the Bank of England interest rate has remained stubbornly unchanged since March 2009, the same cannot be said for…
UK Revenue Continues To Target Tax Evaders
Tax inspectors take more tax out of the rich – HM Revenue & Customs set up its High Net Worth…
Bubble, Bubble?
The recent sudden fall in commodity prices led to headlines asking if the commodity boom was over; if commodities were…
New Surprise Tax On French Holiday Homes!
The French Finance Bill containing the wealth tax reforms has just been presented to parliament ? and it contained an…
French Tax Reforms 2011
The Finance Bill covering the latest tax reforms in France was presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday 11th…
The Savings Tax Directive ? Potentially Costly Changes
1st July this year will introduce two significant changes to the EU Savings Tax Directive. While many expatriates will not…
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