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EU Council adopts new rules on Corporate Tax avoidance
July 15th, 2016
On 12 July 2016, the Council adopted new rules addressing some of the practices most commonly used by large companies to reduce their tax liability. The directive is part of a January 2016 package of Commission proposals to strengthen rules ...
Immigration lawyers comment about how Brexit affecting them
July 14th, 2016
Nearly three weeks on from the unexpected referendum result, the world is still fascinated by what a vote to leave the EU means for the big wide world of commercial law. The details of what a post-Brexit City of ...
European stocks are expected to open lower on Tuesday
July 12th, 2016
Europe poised for weaker open as rally loses steam European stocks are expected to open lower on Tuesday as market turn mixed in Asia and European markets lose momentum. The London FTSE index is expected to open 10 points ...
Evaluating the EU’s New Definition for Virtual Currencies
July 11th, 2016
The European Commission this week adopted a legislative proposal meant to bring virtual currency exchanges and custodian wallet providers under the scope of the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive. This step should have been expected, as it has been clear that ...
Brexit: Would Europeans be allowed to stay in the UK?
July 7th, 2016
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham says Theresa May’s response to concerns is ‘simply not good enough MPs vote today on whether the government should guarantee the permanent residency rights of EU nationals living in the UK following the referendum ...
European Council approves VAT rules on vouchers
July 5th, 2016
On 27 June 2016, the Council adopted a directive aimed at increasing legal certainty for transactions involving vouchers by harmonising national VAT rules in this area. The directive sets out to reduce the risk of mismatches in national tax rules leading to ...
Goodbye to all VAT? EU indirect tax after Brexit
July 1st, 2016
Nicholas Hallam, CEO at Accordance, examines what could happen to EU VAT after the UK’s vote to leave the union. A year ago, asking EU VAT commissioner Donato Raponi what Brexit would mean for EU VAT provoked derisory hilarity ...
Here Are 3 Crazy Scenarios In Which Brexit Doesn’t Happen
June 30th, 2016
The Brexit vote raised more questions than it answered. Thursday’s Brexit referendum, in which British voters supported leaving the European Union, sent shockwaves through financial markets all over the world. The pound has plunged. The U.K.’s stock market has ...
Europol: Searches, seizures and arrests were carried out in eight EU countries against a criminal network involved in international VAT fraud and money laundering
June 30th, 2016
Yesterday, from a coordination centre at Eurojust, Europol supported an international action day against a criminal network involved in international VAT fraud and money laundering defrauding EU citizens of approximately EUR 57 million in tax revenues via companies selling ...
Brexit – What Does It Mean For Taxpayers?
June 29th, 2016
June 23rd, 2016, whether for good or for ill, will go down in history as the day on which the European Union became less united, setting in train an as-yet-uncertain, although widely speculated upon, sequence of events. The referendum ...
