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The End of UK Non-Dom Status: What Replaced It and What to Do Now
Domicile-based taxation ended on 6 April 2025. A working guide to the 4-year FIG regime, the residence-based IHT test, the Temporary Repatriation Facility and the realistic options.
QNUPS Explained: The Overseas Pension That Sits Outside UK Inheritance Tax
What a QNUPS is, how it differs from a QROPS, the inheritance tax position after the residence-based reform, and the mistakes that make HMRC treat one as a sham.
Crypto Founders and Tax Residency: Structuring Before the Token Generation Event
Residency and entity decisions made after a token generation event are usually too late to change the tax outcome. Here's what needs to happen before it.
Non-Dom Regimes After the Reforms: Who Still Actually Benefits
The UK, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus non-dom regimes have all been tightened or restructured. Here's what's actually left, and who they still work for.
VAT Registration Abroad: The Threshold Nobody Tracks Until It's Missed
Digital and services businesses cross foreign VAT thresholds without realizing it. Here's how the thresholds actually work and what happens once you miss one.
Stock Options Across Borders: The Tax Trap Nobody Flags at Grant
Options granted in one country and vested after a relocation can trigger tax in both. Here's why grant-date paperwork rarely accounts for it.
Succession Planning Across Three Jurisdictions: Where Wills Actually Conflict
A will valid in one country can be overridden in another. Here's where forced heirship, situs rules, and conflicting wills actually collide."
Digital Nomad Visas vs. Tax Residency: The Paperwork Trap
A digital nomad visa lets you live somewhere legally. It doesn't decide where you're tax resident. Here's why the two get confused, how the confusion gets expensive, and how to actually structure it.
UAE free zones in 2026: which ones still make sense, and for what
There are more than forty free zones in the UAE and they are not comparable. This briefing sets out which zones work for which activity in 2026, how the qualifying free zone person rules constrain the 0% rate, and when mainland is simply the better answer.
The 15% floor: who Pillar Two actually catches, and who thinks they are caught but is not
The global minimum tax applies to groups above a €750m consolidated revenue threshold — yet it is reshaping decisions far below that line, often wrongly. This briefing separates who is genuinely in scope, what the top-up mechanics do, and how mid-sized groups should read it.
CARF: what crypto data starts moving, and when
The Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework turns exchange balances and transactions into automatically exchanged tax information. Forty-six jurisdictions are committed to first exchanges by 2027, a further group by 2028. This briefing sets out who reports, what is reported, and what to fix in the window that remains.
Cross-border portfolio construction: domicile, currency and the two traps that catch most investors
US estate tax on offshore-held US shares, and PFIC treatment of non-US funds. Two rules that quietly reshape how an internationally mobile portfolio should be built.
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