United Kingdom
Retirement | 10 Apr 17
UK IFA banned over advice to invest £12m in store pods
A former UK adviser has been banned from being a director for nine years after his now collapsed IFA firm gave advice to over 300 clients to invest £12m (€14m, $14.8m) in unregulated investments in storage units.
Retirement | 7 Apr 17
Sipp provider Liberty reports massive 87% rise in assets
Liberty Sipp, a UK provider of self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps), has increased its assets under management by an astonishing 87% over the last year.
UK committed to public beneficial ownership despite concerns
A first-of-its-kind public beneficial ownership register of overseas companies that own UK property is being pushed forward by the UK government despite concerns that the information should not be made freely available.
North America | 6 Apr 17
Surge in US expats declaring offshore assets
The number of American expats in the UK declaring their offshore assets to the US taxman has surged in 2017, amid fears that an Obama-era tax amnesty could be curtailed or ended by the Trump administration.
Tax & Regulation | 6 Apr 17
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.