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ICAS: ‘Shouty’ tax debate over Scottish tax system
May 21st, 2014
The level of discourse around tax has done little to help inform voters, ICAS has noted, alongside the release of its paper discussing key tax and spending numbers at the centre of the independence debate. Scotland’s Tax Future; Taxes ...
Roberts Reunites High Court Majority After Obamacare Vote
May 19th, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is back to being the conservative majority. Two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law and a year after it bolstered gay rights, the five Republican-appointed justices are voting together ...
Bitcoin: guide for tax purposes
May 19th, 2014
Interest in Bitcoin has shot up since the virtual currency’s inception in 2009, and many a contractor is considering how it could play a part in their business, writes James Poyser, co-founder of online contractor accountancy firm inniAccounts. While ...
HMRC doubles inquiries into self-assessors
May 19th, 2014
The number of taxpayers whose financial affairs HM Revenue & Customs investigated in the past 12 months has almost doubled, in line with the growing haul from such self-assessors. In fact, self-assessment inquiries by the department hit 237,215 people ...
Vodafone’s ‘unpaid tax’
May 19th, 2014
Activism Group UK Uncut has issued a warning to the UK’s largest telecoms company Vodafone over allegedly unpaid corporation tax. The group claims it has “had enough” of the government “sheltering tax-dodging companies” including, it claims, Vodafone. It is ...
CySec on EU regulation about Ukraine
May 16th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) informs the Cyprus Investment Firms, Management Companies, Administrative Services Companies and Regulated Markets (‘the Regulated Entities) about the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union the following: 1. Council Regulation ...
SEC Charges Unregistered Securities Salesman
May 16th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Tiburon, Calif.-based securities salesman for selling millions of dollars in oil-and-gas investments without being registered with the SEC as a broker-dealer or associated with a registered broker-dealer. Behrooz Sarafraz has ...
Canada’s international transactions in securities
May 16th, 2014
Canadian investors acquired $7.9 billion of foreign securities in March, the largest such outflow of funds since November 2012. Meanwhile, foreign investors reduced their holdings of Canadian securities by $1.2 billion, the first monthly divestment this year. This activity ...
Demand for Venture Capital Outstripping the Supply
May 15th, 2014
Fewer entrepreneurs expect to be able to tap traditional venture capital funds in 2014, but corporate venture money may help fill the gap. As talk of a tech bubble spreads, a handful of tech stocks have pulled back in ...
CySec imposes administrative fine
May 15th, 2014
The Council of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) informs the investors that has decided to impose the administrative fine of € 10.000 in total to the company AFX Capital Markets Ltd (‘ the Company’) for the infringements of: – ...