Reported by Dillon De Shong The British Virgin Islands was deemed to be largely compliant with international laws that govern money laundering, tax evasion and terrorism financing. The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) published its Mutual Evaluation Report of the Virgin Islands today where it highlighted the BVI’s efforts to make itself compliant. The […]
Reported by Nicholas Kuria In this review of taxation and the British Virgin Islands, Conyers Corporate Counsel Nicholas Kuria discusses some of the most commonly misunderstood notions relating to the use of offshore jurisdictions, with a focus on the BVI. We will begin with an overview of the tax position. The British Virgin Islands has […]
Reported by Perkin Amalaraj and Reuters A Briton charged with defrauding Danish tax authorities of more than 320 million Danish crowns (£36.6 million) in a sham trading scheme to make double tax reclaims has been sentenced to six years in prison. Danish prosecutors in 2021 brought preliminary criminal charges against Guenther Klar, 54, along with […]
Reported by Aurelien Breeden Guy Wildenstein, the international art dealer, is scheduled to return to court in Paris this week to face accusations of massive tax fraud and money laundering in a lengthy legal battle that has slowly chipped away at the prestige and secrecy of a family dynasty that once dominated the global art […]
Reported by Lukas I. Alpert A European tax advisor to a global set of star DJs and supermodels has been arrested on charges that he created a network of illegal tax shelters to help his clients avoid paying U.S taxes on over $100 million of earnings. Frank Butselaar, 63, of the Netherlands, is accused of […]
Reported by: GRAHAM KATES Two Trump Organization companies were ordered to pay a $1.6 million fine at sentencing Friday, after a jury last month unanimously found them guilty of 17 counts related to tax fraud. The fine imposed by Judge Juan Merchan was the maximum penalty allowed in the case — double the amount of the […]
Reported by: AYSHA BAGCHI The Internal Revenue Service has signaled that a wave of tax prosecutions involving cryptocurrency is coming. Its Criminal Investigations division is building hundreds of cryptocurrency cases, with about half of those investigations focused specifically on tax crimes, according to division Chief Jim Lee. Others target money laundering, he said. Lee made […]
Reported by: DAVID JOLLY The IRS’s Criminal Investigation division is building “hundreds” of crypto cases, and many of them will soon be public, division chief Jim Lee said Thursday. The cases involve areas like “off-ramping” transactions, in which digital assets are exchanged for fiat currency, as well as people being paid in crypto and not […]
Reported by: Dean Starkman The Swiss government plans to create a central registry to identify the true owners of now-anonymous Swiss-registered companies and partnerships, an incremental but important anti-money laundering reform for the longtime bastion of financial secrecy. The country’s Federal Council, Switzerland’s cabinet, has asked the government’s finance ministry to draft a law to create the […]
Reported by: swissinfo.ch The Swiss government has asked the finance ministry to draft a bill to increase transparency of beneficial owners of legal entities to help tackle financial crime. The bill should introduce a central register for identifying beneficial owners and new obligations when it comes to risks of financial crime, the government said on […]
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