UNDERSTANDING THE PRACTICAL UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL TAX TRANSPARENCY

Grand Hotel Kempinski, Geneva

Thu 06 Jul

 

We are delighted to invite you to an IBSA conference in conjunction with Private Client Series on 6th July.  This event will bring together the leading minds in the industry to discuss the unintended consequences of the constant global drive towards total transparency. It will enable attendees to answer the key questions posed by their clients on an increasingly regular basis:

 

What should you be doing now, and when the information starts flowing?

  • Understanding the Brexit impact

  • Bilateral as opposed to unilateral

  • Are we on the road to a globally coordinated tax system? 

  • Beneficial ownership: the connecting factor 

 

Where does this leave the Privacy vs Transparency debate?

  • Dawson-Damer vs Taylor Wessing

  • Scope of data protection rules

  • Trusts and privacy battlefront 

  • Exchange of information and

  • The protection of human rights and privacy laws 

 

Direct impact on clients and you, the advisors

  • Practical impact on tax investigations

  • Corporate criminal offence of enabling tax evasion

  • Notification of offshore structures - what does it mean for your clients? 

  • Powers of enquiry

  • Enhanced penalties  

 

The conference fee is £899 plus VAT but for IBSA members, please use the promotional code on offer for the reduced cost of £450 plus VAT.  If you would like to receive this offer and are not currently an IBSA member, please contact info@istructuring.com

 

Programme

07:30

Registration

08:00

Chair's Opening Remarks

Jeremy Franks

CEO - Private Clients at Knox Private Office

08:10

Understanding the Brexit Impact on the Tax Transparency Agenda

  • Bilateral as opposed to unilateral

John Barnett

Partner at Burges Salmon

Philip Baker KC, OBE

Field Court Tax Chambers

Peter Golden

Partner at Linklaters

08:50

What is the Point of Tax transparency? The Impact now and Preparing for what will it be when the Information Starts Flowing

  • Are we on the Road to a Globally Co-ordinated Tax System?

Rob Withecombe

Freelance Consultant

Steve Camm

Partner at PwC

Richard Hay

Partner at Stikeman Elliot

09:30

Refreshment Break

09:50

Beneficial Ownership: The Connecting Factor

John Riches

Partner at RMW Law

10:30

Dawson-Damer vs. Taylor Wessing: Assessing the Scope of the Data Protection Bolt from the Blue

Nick Warr

Partner at Taylor Wessing

11:00

Trusts & Privacy: The New Battlefront

  • Exchange of Information

  • CRS and DAC 2

  • FATCA

  • Automatic Exchange

  • Protection of Human Rights and Privacy laws

Paul Hodgson

Managing Director at Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited

Roy Saunders

Founder and Chairman, IBSA

Filippo Noseda

Partner at Mishcon de Reya LLPs

11:40

Lunch

12:40

Practical Impact on Tax Investigations

  • Any HMRC change in behaviour and what will change when they receive this information

John Brassey

Tax Director at Lancaster Knox

Ray McCann

Partner at Joseph Hage Aaronson

Richard Morley

Partner at BDO

13:20

What does Tax Transparency mean for You, the Advisor?

  • What will the revenue receive under UK FATCA and CRS

  • Corporate criminal offence of enabling tax evasion

  • Notification of offshore structure - what does it mean for your clients?

  • How does it impact your business of advising HNW clients?

  • Requirement to correct and mitigating the penalty through identification of enablers

  • Power of Enquiry and Enhanced Penalties for Offshore Evasion

Simon Jennings

Partner at Smith & Williamson

Martin Callaghan

Senior Manager at BDO

Martin Portnoy

Partner at EY

14:00

Refreshment Break

14:20

Trust Benefits: Do they still Exist, & What Should you be Telling your Client?

  • Continued uses of Trusts

  • Rights of Beneficiaries

  • Latest tax issues relating to Trusts

Edward Buckland

Trust Director at LGL Trustees Limited

15:00

Assessing the Impact on Divorce Cases: Another Front in Family Law Overreach?

  • Will it open blocked pathways to HNW assets with international exposure?

Rosie Schumm

Partner at Forsters

David Lister

Partner at Mishcon de Reya

15:40

New Supra Regulator (OPBAS) Impact on Property Structures

  • De-enveloping corporate structures

  • Foreign ownership of UK property

  • Latest update for non-domiciles

  • Changes to the excluded property regime

David Kilshaw

Partner at Ernst Young

16:20

Chair's Summation & Close of Conference

Jeremy Franks

CEO - Private Clients at Knox Private Office

16:25

Start of Drinks Reception

Venue

5th June Conference

Grand Hotel Kempinski, Geneva

Quai du Mont-Blanc 19

CH – 1201 Geneva

 

Key Contacts

Lucie Saunders
44 (0)7958 244 910
lucie.saunders@theibsa.org
Chief Operating Officer

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