A number of tax measures announced in Singapore’s budget last Thursday are aimed at spurring growth in the country’s small and medium-sized enterprise sector (SME) and encouraging the internationalisation of local businesses.
Members of International Adviser’s Tax & Technical Panel give their views and insights on chancellor George Osborne’s latest budget announcement.
Whether you support or oppose chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne and his party, it is hard to argue he is not a shrewd operator and a safe pair of hands for the British economy.
Chancellor George Osborne stood before the House of Commons and delivered yet another budget on Wednesday. Among the usual pithy remarks, the chancellor outlined another set of changes to the UK’s finances.
A further crackdown on international tax avoidance aimed at raising £12bn (€15.2bn, $16.9bn) will include restrictions on royalty payments, interest payments and use of losses, UK chancellor George Osborne revealed in Wednesday’s Budget details.
The UK chancellor George Osborne has abandoned plans to shake up the pension tax system in this month’s budget after pressure from Conservative MPs, according to media reports.
Chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is under increasing pressure to ‘play it safe’ and not overhaul the UK pensions system when he reveals his budget in 12 days’ time.
Royal London chief executive Phil Loney has slammed the idea of a Pension ISA, just five weeks before Chancellor George Osborne gives his next budget speech.
Firms authorised by the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will have to collectively pay £363m ($518m, €475m) to fund the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in 2016/17, an increase of 13.1% from £319m in 2015/16.
Following a year packed with change, announcements, and consultations, Canada Life International’s Neil Jones gives his view on what to expect on the tax and investment front in 2016.
New inheritance tax thresholds on family homes introduced in the UK Government’s Summer Budget are more complex than many people realise, according to a specialist in estate planning and tax advice.
Law firm Edwin Coe maps out the upcoming changes to the taxation of high net worth individuals in the UK, as announced in the last two Budgets.
