by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 23, 2016 | BlogPost
FATCA in the Firing Line September has been a bad month for FATCA. Earlier this month, Representative Mark Meadows (Republican, North Carolina) introduced Bill: H.R. 5935 in The House of Representatives. Evocatively labelled “to repeal the violation of sovereign...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 19, 2016 | Podcasts
The Impact of Failing to Report Correctly In this episode, your host Ross McGill brings you an overview of developments in the global regulatory landscape. We look at the changes in the penalties issued by the IRS for failure to report, how globally standardised...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Sep 13, 2016 | BlogPost
Tax Reporting Does ACTUALLY Matter Regulation… regulation… sorry, what’s that? More regulation? You think that tax evaders get away with it? Or that your reports as a Foreign Financial Institution (FFI) are not monitored? Well, think again! FATCA and...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Aug 3, 2016 | BlogPost
Are You About To Lose Your ‘In Substance’ Benefits? Back in 2015 I pointed out to attendees at our training courses that there were strings attached to the status of ‘in substance’. I observed that the principle, if I were to take a purely commercial view...
by Kirsty Pitkin | Jul 7, 2016 | BlogPost
Beware The IDES of July When the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar uttered the immortal line “beware the ides of March”, warning the Emperor of his impending death, he was of course referring to the 15th day of March. This is ironic enough, given that March...
