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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has recently proposed a number of significant amendments to the Trusts and Trustees Act as well as changes to the way the trust and fiduciary services sector is regulated, and these possible changes are examined in this feature.Read
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New legislation to enhance Jersey's trusts offering is expected to make the jurisdiction a more attractive location for private wealth management, and this feature provides an overview of the main changes brought about by the amendment to the island’s trust law, which went into effect late last year.Read
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The current controversy over the tax affairs of wealthy celebrities in the United Kingdom has cast an unwelcome spotlight onto offshore territories like Guernsey and Jersey, and has led some to suggest that the offshore trust, at least as far as these jurisdictions are concerned, has had its day, with David Cameron’s coalition government expected t...Read
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Seeking to add another string to its financial services bow, the Hong Kong government has issued comprehensive proposals to update the territory’s trust laws, which are designed to better cater for the needs of modern-day trusts, strengthen the competitiveness of the jurisdiction’s trust business segment and consolidate the status of Hong Kong as a...Read
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Singapore is not thought of as one of the world’s leading trust jurisdictions. But with its wealth management industry booming, and with trust business a key pillar of this sector, the city-state is rapidly becoming a favoured jurisdiction in which to form a trust, thanks to its favourable tax laws, strong confidentiality laws and reform of trust l...Read
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Latest Network News 
 Electrabel Submits Fresh Nuclear Tax Challenge
19/6/2013
Belgium's nuclear electricity producer Electrabel, subsidiary of French
energy giant GDF Suez, has submitted a fresh appeal to the Belgian Constitutional
Court challenging the Government's controversial nuclear tax, which was
almost doubled to EUR550m (USD596m) last year.
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 East African Budgets Hike Taxes
19/6/2013
The East African Community member nations, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, held their Budget Day on June 13 for the 2013/14 fiscal year, and all raised taxes to fund growing infrastructure and economic development expenditure.
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 Law to Exclude US Ex-Citizens Judged To Have Avoided Tax
19/6/2013
Two US Senators have filed an amendment to the Immigration Reform Bill that will automatically bar former citizens eligible to pay the exit tax from re-entering the USA unless they can show the Department of Homeland Security that they did not renounce US citizenship for tax purposes.
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 China, EU To Talk On Trade Disputes
19/6/2013
It has been announced that the European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and
Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng are to meet in Beijing on June 21, during
the 27th annual EU-China Joint Committee, to discuss the currently difficult trade
relations between the European Union and China.
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 July Start Earmarked For EU, US Trade Talks
19/6/2013
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership "could be the biggest bilateral trade deal in history," UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said at the G8 Summit, where it was announced that negotiations will begin next month.
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