Blakes is pleased to announce that our Tax group has been awarded the 2014 “Canada Tax Firm of the Year” for the sixth time in the last seven years. Blakes also received 2014 “Tax Court of Canada Firm of the Year” and an additional award for a private equity transaction. The awards were presented at …
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White & Case – As part of the Tax Reform that became effective on January 1, 2014, the Mexican Congress passed a series of amendments to the Federal Tax Code with the purpose of modernizing and facilitating the compliance and enforcement of tax obligations. Such amendments gave tax authorities a tremendous surveillance power over taxpayers, …
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Money laundering has always been big business, but now it is also big politically and financial writer Terry Savage is the author of four books on personal finance, including the recent The Savage Truth on Money, which was named one of the top ten money books of the year by Amazon.com in its first edition. …
Recent changes to the FACTA legislation – the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – have placed both investors and jurisdictions in a state of some concern. For instance, for gold investors there are issues about bullion storage and one of the solutions for many, identified by NZVault, is storing in a jurisdiction that has no …
Where Do I Store Gold, Ask Investors in the Wake of FACTA? Read More »
Sidley Austin – On April 3, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) released an advance copy of Revenue Ruling 2014-9 providing two new examples of rollover due diligence procedures which, if followed, will allow a plan administrator to reasonably conclude that a potential rollover contribution is valid. Background In general, a potential rollover contribution …
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