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(English) To be or not to be…

By Alvaro Thomas

June 27, 2014

The opening phrase of a soliloquy in Hamlet’s Nunnery Scene is what all countries should be asking themselves right now. Should we or should we not be the collecting agencies for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)? Of course we shouldn´t.

There is an ever growing sentiment that the US […]

(English) Calling a Spade a Spade: Medtronic buying Covidien is above all, a tax ploy.

By Alvaro Tomas, lawyer of MMG Trust, part of the Morgan & Morgan Group

With the deal, announced on Sunday, the Minneapolis-based Medtronic becomes the latest — and biggest — United States company to try to change its tax domicile through a so-called inversion. Such deals are attractive to American companies seeking a lower corporate […]

(English) Moving Money: International Financial Flows, Taxes, and Money Laundering

By Richard Gordon and Andrew P. Morriss

June 2014

Money “moves” internationally through electrons and physically among financial institutions and non-financial institutions as part of global trade in legitimate goods and services and as part of legitimate transnational capital investment, and, regrettably, as part of criminal enterprise. Some analysts argue that the movement […]

(English) US signals intent to capture beneficial ownership information

By Geoff Cook

Published on Jersey Finance

Wednesday 28th May 2014

An interesting post appeared recently on the White House Blog signalling moves by the US to capture beneficial ownership details and to report this information to the IRS. This would, if enacted, be a significant and helpful move by the US in fighting financial […]

(English) Panama´s presidential elections

Panama´s presidential elections held May 4th were characterized by a responsible, transparent, l and concientious democratic electoral exercise. As several dozen international observers and Press representatives reported, Mr. Varela won by a 39% democratic majority.

Extracts of the Investor’s Business Daily dated May 6, 2014

May 6, […]

Extracto del Editorial del Washington Times

By Richard Rahn

The Washington Times

Monday, February 17, 2014

It’s foolish to fund organizations that demand even more money

If you became aware that the advice you were receiving from your economic advisers was causing you to get poorer rather than richer, how long would you keep them?

Among […]

Agenda de la OCDE amenaza la prosperidad de Panamá

By Andrew F. Quinlan & Brian Garst

Earlier this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its finalized Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information. The standard boasts requirements for sharing of a variety of information, including full account balances, that constitute both an intrusion on personal privacy and a costly […]

(English) Great Moments in the Failed and Costly War against Money Laundering

By Dan Mitchell

February 26, 2014

Time for another great moment in red tape.

I wrote a couple of weeks ago that banks treat customers poorly in part because of bad laws and regulations from Washington.

Money laundering laws were adopted beginning about 30 years ago based […]

(English) Global Surveillance of Dirty Money: Assessing Assessments of Regimes to Control Money-Laundering and Combat the Financing of Terrorism

By Terence C. Halliday, Michael Levi, and Peter Reuter

January 30, 2014

On the verge of the 4th round of assessments by the FATF global system, serious doubts are being raised about the effectiveness of regulations and potential adverse consequences of Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Finance of Terrorism (CFT) regimes. […]

(English) The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Will Fail To Curb Tax Evasion

By Andrew Quinlan

This article appeared in Forbes on March 16, 2014

Tax administration is experiencing a global upheaval. The 2010 passage of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) – which includes costly demands on foreign financial institutions to report information on US clients to the IRS and large penalties for noncompliance […]