UNITED Kingdom-based investors are being given a second and final chance to come clean about their
offshore accounts. The taxman is offering an amnesty until March 12 next year for full and frank disclosure about cash held in bank and building society accounts held outside the UK.
Currently, the Service is investigating several thousand
offshore accounts, and has referred a large number of these to its Criminal Investigation Division.
But
offshore accounts are likewise a gamble, because they're viewed with such hostility by the courts that judges have been known to hold trust beneficiaries in contempt, with jail time, for refusing to repatriate assets.
According to Watson's representatives, the actress set up the
offshore account for the sole purpose of "protecting her anonymity and safety."
An
offshore account benefits customers by providing them with access to their portfolio no matter where in the world they are.
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An anonymous source provided the list from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in establishing
offshore accounts, to a German newspaper.
AINTREE: 2.00 Menorah, 2.35 Lenabane, 3.20 KALAHARI KING (NAP), 3.45
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Offshore AccountTony Walker, 60, an expatriate from England, has been keeping his savings in an
offshore account for a long time.
Offshore account holders making disclosures under the NDO face a fixed penalty of ten per cent, but those taxpayers who were informed of the previous ODF by HMRC and who did not come forward under the 2007 ODF will face a 20 per cent fixed penalty.
Meanwhile as the dust settles following the Grand National Charlie Swan is already looking forward to next year's Aintree showpiece for both
Offshore Account and Oodachee.
Another exception is for payments made to an
offshore account. If a payment to an
offshore account is normally subject to tax under Sec.