Financial Services & Tax

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Editor's blog | Will-writing quality scheme: a good idea, too late?

A new Law Society-endorsed quality will-writing scheme would offer value to the profession and clients if it weren't for existing professional schemes

Wealth management update: taxation of non-residents

David Bird reviews new rules on the taxation of business owners, 'non-resident individuals, and the introduction of a general ‘anti abuse' rule, 'which he says...

Brave new world: Jersey in wake of economic crisis

Geoff Cook highlights some of the key issues facing Jersey and other international financial centres in the wake of the economic crisis

Colin Lawson explains why he thinks global growth and a rallying stock market is just around the corner

Resorting to an argument about the morals of tax planning highlights the flaws in the current system, says Mike Fleming

End result: making ABSs work

Making alternative business structures work, by Lawrence Cook

Nothing ventured: venture capital trusts

Ian Scott looks at the benefits for investors of venture capital trusts

European briefing | Was France's tax treatment of EDF legitimate?

In deciding that the French state's actions might be acceptable, the ECJ has created unnecessary legal uncertainty, says Paul Stanley NO