Jersey’s Beneficial Ownership Register is now active Jersey’s Financial Services (Disclosure and Provision of Information) Law 2020 was adopted on 14 July 2020 and registered on 23 October 2020. The commencement date was initially scheduled for 1 October 2020, but was pushed to 6 January 2021 due to the concern raised by industry’s experts that...Read More

HMRC condemns tax avoidance agreements with revenue service trusts With the release of its guidance “Disguised remuneration: tax avoidance by selling future business revenues to a revenue service trust”, Her Majesty’s Revenues and Customs (HMRC) recently seeked to warn the public from entering specific kind of agreements with offshore “revenue-service” trustees. These agreements regard the...Read More

The UK seeks legislative freedom by withdrawing from DAC6’s disclosure provisions Following Brexit, the UK government has decided not to proceed with the implementation of the EU’s Council Directive (EU) 2018/822 (DAC6), which involves mandatory disclosure of cross-border tax planning schemes. With the new free trade agreement signed by the UK with the EU, both...Read More