ILN members are working together all the time, and sometimes they pick their noses up from the grindstone to share one of their successes with me. Here’s a story about an excellent collaboration among ILN firms in Sweden, Italy, Liechtenstein
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New article providing background on Nottebohm case
For those of you international law professors who teach the Nottebohm case from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) involving the issue of nationality, I have recently published an article that provides a much fuller picture of what happened to…
Liechtenstein Approves Same-Sex Partnership Law
Voters in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein have approved a law this past weekend to allow same-sex couples to register their partnerships. Same-sex couples will have equal rights for inheritance, social security, immigration, and taxation. They will still be barred…
Secreting Assets Without A Border Trace
By Fred Abrams
Asset Search Blog articles quoting “Roger” the former foreign intelligence officer are “Following The Money Trail In Zurich” and “Offshore Bank Accounts In Liechtenstein“. The end of this article also features “Roger”, although its facts have been…
Italy Cracks Down on Tax Havens
By Marco Rossi
In connection with the enactment of its own tax amnesty (which permits the repatriation or regularization of undeclared foreign investments with the payment of a very generous 5% flat tax on the fair market value of the undeclared assets), Italy…
Asset Search News Roundup: August 30, 2008
By Fred Abrams
The instant “Asset Search News Roundup” mentions a suspected tax cheat who may have absconded to Costa Rica; Switzerland’s release of $60 million belonging to a leading Pakistani politician; and that software designed to combat financial crime is being tested…
Tax havens getting it from all sides Friday, May 16,
Tax havens getting it from all sides Friday, May 16, 2008
Is there no safe tax haven any more? Apparently not. As I mentioned yesterday, the IRS is taking advantage of a 38-year-old law to crack down on U.S.
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Offshore Bank Accounts In Liechtenstein
By Fred Abrams
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has disseminated a list with about 1400 suspected tax cheats on it, all of whom maintained offshore bank accounts through Liechtenstein’s LGT Group. As the CNBC article “Europe Tax Evasion Probe Going…