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Hargreaves £15m tax case win over HMRC
Hargreaves Lansdown has won a tax tribunal appeal against HM Revenue & Customs that will see around 150,000 investors receive a £15m ($20.9m, €17m) rebate.
Emerging Markets | news 20 Mar 18
Emerging markets a ‘sweet spot’ for fixed income
Emerging market bond funds are the “sweet spot” when it comes to the search for fixed income yield, according to BlackRock.
Tax & Technical | news 20 Mar 18
BBC could have avoided £170m in tax
A UK parliamentary select committee inquiry into pay at the BBC, a bungled system to push employees into freelance status, has revealed the perils of putting tax responsibility on individuals and the tax the BBC could have avoided.
PEOPLE MOVES: Investec, NN IP and Heartwood
NN IP chooses its lead portfolio manager of emerging market debt, Investec hires its UK institutional sales director from Goldman Sachs and Heartwood makes a raft appointments to its investment team.
South Africa’s tax chief suspended
In a bid to boost investor confidence, South Africa’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended the head of the tax service after he refused to resign.