Spain targets Gibraltar’s ‘privileged’ tax haven status
Spain will target what it considers to be Gibraltar’s “unjustifiable privileges” on tax in Brexit negotiations, a leaked government report has revealed.
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HMRC to visit top UK football clubs in tax-dodging probe
The UK tax office will visit all English Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premier League clubs in the next three years to review payments made to players amid a string of high-profile tax avoidance cases.
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Spain bemused by UK’s ‘war talk’ in Brexit row over Gibraltar
Spain has accused UK government officials of “losing their cool” in a row with the European Union over the future of Gibraltar post-Brexit.
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Expats face Brexit ‘limbo’ as UK kick-starts Article 50 talks
Over a million British expats living across the European Union face further uncertainty as the UK officially starts the two-year process to exit the bloc without being any closer to securing a deal on reciprocal rights.
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Bringing Spain’s financial advice up to Speed
Andrea Speed is leading by example in trying to improve the quality of advice and industry practice in Spain.
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EU gives Spain two months to scrap ‘unfair’ expat fines
The European Commission has given the Spanish government two months to make Modelo 720 penalties fairer following revelations that fines issued for late or inaccurate tax returns can be as high as 150% of the undeclared assets.
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Spanish princess’s husband gets six years over €6m tax fraud
The brother-in-law of King Felipe VI of Spain has been sentenced to six years in prison and fined more than €500,000 (£426,565, $530,810) after being found guilty of charges including embezzlement, fraud and tax evasion.
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Spain ‘hopeful’ of a deal on UK expat rights after Brexit
Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy says he believes a deal can be done with Britain to preserve the rights of British expats in Spain after Brexit.
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Spain targets HNWs over tax evasion as data-sharing goes live
Spain has announced new measures to crack down on tax fraud by wealthy individuals, as the country becomes one of the early adopters of the ‘automatic exchange of information’ regime.
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Spain under fire to harmonise tax regimes across regions
Pressure is mounting on the Spanish government to introduce a nationwide tax system to address “substantial tax disparities” between the country’s 17 autonomous regions.
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Spain retains wealth tax quashing hopes of ‘promised abolition’
Spain has confirmed there will be no changes to income or wealth taxes in 2017, despite political instability in recent months giving hope that a controversial wealth tax would finally be lifted.
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Arsenal’s Sanchez facing jail after admitting €1m tax fraud
Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez faces a possible jail sentence after admitting to tax fraud in Spain of almost €1m (£880,240, $1.06m).