The European Union’s 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive required that EU member states should set up beneficial ownership registers for corporate and other legal entities by January 10, 2020, and for trusts and similar legal arrangements by March 10, 2020. My...
According to the World Bank, there are more than 160 million privately-owned small and medium-sized enterprises in the world employing more than 500 million people. Many of these businesses are family-owned, with tightly held shareholdings. They are very often...
Many countries levy a so called “exit tax”, which is realised in situations where a country would lose its right to tax assets that are being transferred to another country. The purpose of exit taxes is to collect a tax on such assets before they would be out of reach...