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…

Spanish Capital Gains Tax Relief on the Main Home

The Spanish gains tax regulations can provide relief on the sale of the main home for Spanish tax residents whose…

Tax Increases Will Burden Generations To Come

The world?s worst financial crisis in living memory created a roll-on effect that will test governments for years to come…

Liechtenstein?s Stolen Tax Data Paves Way For Compensation Claims

A surprising twist has come to light two years after an informant stole data foreign account holders from a bank…

Taxpayer Loses Residency Appeal

One of the great myths of tax planning is that spending less than 91 days (or nights) in the UK…

A Taxing Future?

Throughout Europe economies are buckling under the weight of swollen budget deficits. Besides the costs of the financial stimulus measures…