On behalf of Baker McKenzie’s Global Wealth Management Practice Group we are delighted to share with our clients, friends, colleagues and readers from around the world the Second Quarter 2023 issue of the Private Wealth Newsletter.
This edition features articles on a variety of relevant recent developments in the private wealth space including new Mandatory Disclosure Rules in the United Kingdom.
On 22 November 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union, sitting as the Grand Chamber, rendered a landmark decision on the validity of the Luxembourg provisions of the law of 13 January 2019, establishing the register of beneficial owners and implementing the EU anti-money laundering directives. According to the CJEU, the provision, whereby the information on the beneficial ownership of companies incorporated within the territory of the member states is accessible in all cases to any member of the general public, is invalid.
Welcome to our first quarter issue of the Private Wealth Newsletter. Our featured insight for this issue is a discussion of the passage of the Corporate Transparency Act by the United States to introduce federally-mandated beneficial ownership reporting obligations for US corporations and limited liability companies. We also include insights…
Click here to request the latest edition of this newsletter. Feature Malaysia: Wealth management and tax planning in the wake of COVID-19 Case Summaries Brazil Private Letter Ruling No. 41 of 31 March 2020 — tax treatment of trust distributions to Brazilian beneficiaries France Wealth tax — The refusal to…
Baker McKenzie’s EMEA Tax Practice Group presented an overview on “Wealth Management” on 7 July 2020, the fourth in a series of short webinars to keep tax professionals abreast of recent developments in these less than certain times.
The US Internal Revenue Service announced that it will end the 2014 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program on September 28, 2018.