27 June 2011 | Shimon Shaw
It has been reported, in the Financial Times, that France has abandoned plans to introduce an annual tax on second homes owned by non-residents. Good news for Brits with homes in France. The French...
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17 June 2011 | Simon Weinberg
The High Court recently ruled that Sir Fred Goodwin could be named as the applicant for an injunction in a privacy case relating to an alleged affair with a colleague when working at the Royal Bank of...
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17 June 2011 | Mark Weston
The Lord Chief Justice gave a speech in Belfast in November 2010 in which he specifically warned jurors about the risks of discussing a case online via social media, saying that it could easily be considered...
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1 April 2011 | Emma Cameron
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced on 24 March that it plans to amend some of the information required in the annual returns filed by companies. The amendments are set out in...
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28 March 2011 | Shimon Shaw |
I was going to call this simply "Stamp Duty news". But that's not the most exciting topic ever. Unless you are buying a house.
Or unless you are me.
So on to the news:
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18 March 2011 | Shimon Shaw
Those of you who remember That's Life will know how the title to this blog post is supposed to be pronounced. Everyone else look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMOSN0WYvg (at about 1.40 but the...
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4 March 2011 | Shimon Shaw |
Why, why, why do newspapers continue to harp on about stamp duty planning and get it wrong? It grates every time I read an article like the one (about a "stamp duty loophole") in a broadsheet last weekend...
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