News
Oct
2014 -
Doing Business in the UK
The UK has moved up from tenth to eighth best place in a World Bank list that ranks economies on the ease of doing business. The report says that reforms implemented in the year to June 2014 included changes to speed up tax registration so as starting a business i ... Read more
Oct
2014 -
Scotland - Tax Changes
Even though Scotland voted against becoming independent from the rest of the United Kingdon in the September 2014 referendum, some tax powers had been transferred from London to Scotland. Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) will be replaced as from 1st April 2015 by Land & ... Read more
Oct
2014 -
Irish - American Law Society of Cleveland
Willie O'Grady of O'Gradys Solciitors, Dublin, presented a paper and spoke on International Bankruptcy and Insovency at the Society's three day conference that took place in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, at the end of September. The Conference was arranged by our USA memb ... Read more
Sep
2014 -
Tax - France / Luxembourg
France will now have the right to tax all capital gains deriving from the sale by a Luxembourg company of its interest in a company i.e. a French company, whose assets are directly or indirectly mainly composed of French real estate (i.e. more than 50% of the asse ... Read more
Jul
2014 -
OECD - Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting.
OECD has published an action plan of proposals to to deal with with Base Erosion and Profit Shifting. Click on the following link to view: http://www.oecd.org/ctp/BEPSActionPlan.pdf ... Read more
Jul
2014 -
OECD - Guide on the Protection of Confidentiality of Information Exchanged for Tax Purposes
Please click here to view document: http://www.oecd.org/ctp/exchange-of-tax-information/keeping-it-safe-report.pdf ... Read more
Jul
2014 -
Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information
Please click here to view document: http://www.oecd.org/ctp/exchange-of-tax-information/automatic-exchange-financial-account-information-common-reporting-standard.pdf ... Read more
Jul
2014 -
OECD is Tackling Aggressive Tax Planning through Improved Transparency and Disclosure
Please click here to view document: http://www.oecd.org/ctp/exchange-of-tax-information/48322860.pdf ... Read more
Jun
2014 -
CLG expands into USA
We extend a very warm welcome to our new member, Collins & Scanlon LLP, a law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The firm has nine lawyers, and its main service areas are: business acquisitions, business financings, government contracts, real estate developme ... Read more
Apr
2014 -
Scotland - Trip Advisor cannot be forced to disclose reviewer's identity
In the recent case of Clark v Trip Advisor, the Court of Session in Scotland held that it could not order TripAdvisor to disclose information about the identity of its contributors, because it did not have jurisdiction to do so. The owners of a guest house wanted ... Read more
Mar
2014 -
EU - Personal Data and Privacy
On Wednesday 12 March, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved two key reports setting out their demands for stronger protection of personal data and privacy. One of the reports contains Parliament's changes to the proposed Data Protection Regulation. T ... Read more
Mar
2014 -
EU - Online lodgment of documents in EU courts
e-Curia is an application of the Court of Justice of the European Union which allows lawyers to exchange procedural documents with the Registries of the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal by exclusively electronic means. Once you ha ... Read more