Member Articles

Contact: Saul Brenner; Berdon LLP (New York, New York, USA)  The IRS recently ruled that transactions involving bitcoin and other virtual currencies may create a tax liability since digital currencies, like stocks, are ...

Contact: Boodle Hatfield (London, England)   FATCA - What do trustees need to do?   The UK and US governments have reached an agreement to implement a US law, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA ...

Contact: Boodle Hatfield (London, England)   Residential property is not the only thing in short supply in Prime Central London – the funding needed to develop new stock is equally hard to secure. Not so long a ...

Contact: ESV Chartered Accountants (Sydney, Australia) Joe Hockey handed down his first Federal budget in what is clearly a testing time for the Government. The 2014-2015 Federal Budget contained few announcemen ...

Contact: Dieter Hauck and Esther Sowka-Hold; Preslmayr Attorneys at Law (Austria) Introduction During the first quarter of 2014 the Federal Competition Authority (FCA) increased its investigations into the food reta ...

Contact: Delaney Partners (Bahamas) On 18 April 2014 The Bahamas Government announced that it had approved in principle the Model 1 Agreement with the US Government to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (� ...