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Dear Lucie,
I'm pleased to inform you that the IBSA has recently held several very well attended discussion groups with lively participation from the audience and very positive feedback regarding the Association. If you missed the London discussion on 'Investment in UK Real Estate' please click here for the presentation slides and I have written 2 articles in the Knowledge Bank (snippets below) from the European meeting in the Hague on Double Tax Treaty Denial and the London conference on Tax Residence in the Sun!
The Annual IBSA
Conference on 16th November on 'Practical Issues for Entrepreneurial Family Owned Companies' has had a good response so far. Our expert speakers will be basing their sessions around the renowned IBSA Business Structuring course 'The Polycon Case Study'. For further information about the conference and the
learning outcomes for the day's sessions, please click here.
This is an event not to be missed and I really hope to see you there.
I would like to welcome this month's new corporate and individual members of the IBSA from the UK, New York, Portugal, Cyprus, Switzerland, Russia and the Middle East. Their professional profiles are now on our website with contact details
exclusively for our members. If you've forgotten your login details to our website or you're not a member and would like details of joining the IBSA, please contact Lucie.
Please scroll down for information on all our upcoming events and recent articles,
kindly provided by our members.
With kind regards,
Roy Saunders
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IBSA Annual Conference - Practical Issues for Entrepreneurial Family Owned Companies
16 November 2017, 08.45
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The Landmark Hotel, London
Join us on Thursday 16th November at the Landmark Hotel, London, where we'll be examining the 'Practical Issues for Entrepreneurial Family Owned Companies'. Our speakers are all IBSA members and are experts in the fields of family and employment law, intellectual property and international tax law. They will use a case study based on the renowned Polycon Lens Company’s transformation into the Eyemax Group to explore a range of issues and challenges facing entrepreneurial family owned companies in an international context including divorce, inheritance, competition, intellectual property and corporate finance. Click here to download the full programme.
The conference fee is £750 but has been reduced to £450 for IBSA members.
Please click on the link below for the full programme, speaker details and to book a ticket.
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Discussion Group Meetings
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New Transfer Pricing Rules in Cyprus....
how prepared are you?
8 November 2017, 18.00, Cyprus
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Centre of Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia
Join Dmitry Zapol of IFS Consultants, Stavroula Vrasida of Ministry of Finance and Christos Michael & Petros Petrides of First Names Group for a discussion group meeting on Wednesday 8th November at 18:00 examining 'the Circular' introduced in June by the Cypriot tax authorities, complying with Actions 8-10 under the OECD BEPS project.
Please click on the link below for more information and to register attendance.
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Structuring a Business from a Start-up to an International Group - An Entrepreneur's Journey
9 November 2017, 08.30, Dubai
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The Capital Club, Dubai
Join Roy Saunders for a workshop examining issues such as international tax, corporate and IP protection relevant to the expansion of the fictitious Polycon Lens Company as it morphs into the multinational Eyemax Corporation throughout its generational journey.
For our online introduction of this workshop, please click here. In order to raise awareness of the IBSA in the region, this workshop carries a charge of 250 UAE Dirhams (approximately £50) and will be free to IBSA members. Please click on the link below to book your ticket.
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TAX RESIDENCE IN THE SUN!
Roy Saunders, IFS Consultants & the IBSA
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At a recent IBSA conference, advisers from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus, Switzerland and Dubai were vying with each other to demonstrate how their countries were offering better tax incentives than the UK’s non-domicile legislation - plus sunshine, or in the case of Switzerland, glistening ski slopes. Read more >>
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DOUBLE TAX TREATY DENIAL AND THE BEPS MULTILATERAL INSTRUMENT
Roy Saunders, IFS Consultants & the IBSA
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The European branch of the IBSA held a well-attended meeting at the office of Buren NV in the Hague on Tuesday 3rd
October, at which three speakers addressed the issue of double tax treaty denial and the multilateral instrument.
The speakers were Roy Saunders, Chairman and Founder of the IBSA & IFS Consultants, Scott Davis, Partner at the US firm of WithumSmith+Brown, and Cees-Frans Greeven, Partner of the Dutch law firm Buren NV.
Each of the speakers introduced their specific contribution to the topic, after which there was a lively discussion with the audience. Read more >>
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WHEN DOMESTIC VAT CAN SURPRISE FOREIGN ENTERPRISES
Paddy Behan, Simmons Gainsford
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Many countries have VAT-type systems. From this we might expect that that because such tax systems have common features – and in the case of EU countries, a common basis in EU law – it should be easy to explain the UK VAT system to foreign businesses trading in, or intending to trade in the UK. But this is frequently not the case. Often businesses which do not have a UK establishment are taken by surprise when they learn that their business model can result in their having to register for VAT, and to make returns and payments. Read more >>
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BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP IN TODAY'S WORLD
Roy Saunders, IFS Consultants
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Who really owns the right to income? And are they declaring it? These are the obvious two questions that tax authorities around the world want to ask. And a third question is, are intermediary entities within a group structure entitled to be separately treated as if they
own the income rather than the ultimate beneficial owner?
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REASONS FOR A SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENT
Edmund Leung, Tanner De Witt
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Where a company has more than one shareholder, it is recommended that the shareholders enter into a written shareholders’ agreement to manage their expectations and to provide for when any disagreements may arise between the parties to the shareholders’ agreement. It is also common for the company to be a party to the shareholders’ agreement. Read more >>
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