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Wales levies first tax in 800 years
September 12th, 2016
Wales’ emergence as a separate jurisdiction takes a new step today with the introduction of legislation designed to create the first Welsh tax in 800 years. If approved, the land transaction tax, payable on the purchase or lease of ...
MasterCard sued for £14bn in largest ever British legal claim
September 9th, 2016
MasterCard ‘firmly disagree’ with allegations in landmark case of overcharging 46m UK customers for card fees Credit card group MasterCard is being sued for £14bn, the largest legal claim in British history, in a landmark lawsuit over allegations that ...
Why the EU says Apple must pay Ireland $14.5 billion in tax
September 1st, 2016
The European Commission (EC) ordered Apple Inc. to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) on Tuesday as it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid. What is the EC alleging? The European ...
Deloitte is being sued after failing to flag up more than $200 million of money laundering
August 25th, 2016
A Dubai-based investment group is suing the Middle Eastern arm of Deloitte and Touche after the accounting firm failed to flag up money laundering at a now-defunct Lebanese bank. Lebanese Canadian Bank paid over $100 million, or £76 million, ...
EuroFX: How British Firms Built a Pyramid Scheme in China That Lost Millions
August 19th, 2016
The foreign exchange fraudsters hid in the cracks between international jurisdictions. As David Byrne ate breakfast at the Tongli Lakeview Hotel outside Shanghai one Sunday in April, an angry customer was waiting for him. Byrne, 52, is a British ...
CFTC charges Forex broker FXCM with Undercapitalization
August 19th, 2016
The CFTC Complaint, filed on August 18, 2016, alleges that FXCM, as an RFED in the business of offering or engaging in retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions, was required to maintain adjusted net capital of approximately $25 million on ...
Rabobank staff paid settlements for manipulating Euribor interest rates
August 18th, 2016
Four Rabobank staff and one former colleague have paid settlements of up to €3,000 for their role in manipulating internal interest rates. Three of the four workers held senior positions at the bank, the Financieele Dagblad reported. It is ...
SEC Charges Former Professional Football Player With Running $10 Million Fraud
August 11th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Merrill Robertson Jr., a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles, with defrauding investors, including coaches he knew from his time playing football for the Fork Union Military Academy and the University of ...
The first Major Legal firm to make post-Brexit redundancies
August 8th, 2016
Simmons & Simmons is making redundancies in its London office as a result of the UK’s vote to leave the EU, the first major firm in the City known to have done so. A spokeswoman told RollOnFriday that the firm was ...
New global tax rules are ‘just a sticking plaster’
August 5th, 2016
New international rules to tackle global tax avoidance will not work properly until tax secrecy is swept away, a report released by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on responsible tax has found. The failure to introduce full transparency ...
