Tax

Carried interest tax hiked to 32% as private equity bosses take Budget hit

Rachel Reeves confirms buyout executives will have to pay more on their share of profit

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Private equity bosses await their fate as Budget tax decision looms

The buyout industry has been lobbying hard in the run-up to tomorrow’s speech from chancellor Rachel Reeves

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Wealthy families fleeing UK before Labour non-dom crackdown, Stonehage Fleming chair says

The multi-family office’s rich clients are mulling moves to Switzerland, Italy and Dubai

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Banker bonus cap ‘rewarded mediocrity’ says ex-City minister

John Glen says the limit ‘was never rational’, and worries how a tax raid by Labour could damage the sector

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Budget tax threat raises questions over AIM’s future

The junior market needs more help, not less, to thrive

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Private equity dwells on tax changes at UK summit

In spite of growing optimism over a wider market recovery, the mood music at the BVCA summit was tempered by the prospect of tax hikes in next month’s budget

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IRS apologises to billionaire Ken Griffin for leak of tax records

Citadel founder was one of many wealthy taxpayers whose information was disclosed by an IRS contractor

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Labour’s private equity tax raid will pass over bosses who put their own capital at risk

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says fund managers should have skin in the game if they want incentive payments to be treated as capital gains

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Labour confirms plans to hit private equity bosses with tax hike

The Labour manifesto pledges to close the ‘carried interest tax loophole’

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Scrap bank levy and surcharge taxes, TheCityUK tells next government

Pressure grows on politicians to back financial services as election looms

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Labour to shy away from bank tax raid in pro-business push

Party continues bid to distance itself from left-wing past as general election looms

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City relaxed about election after Labour pledges to support finance

Sir Keir Starmer’s party has come a long way since the dark days of Jeremy Corbyn

'I’m a big believer that you never dilute a brand that has meaningful value,' incoming senior partner says

PwC to undo split in US tax practice

Shift comes three years after a landmark decision to embed tax in other departments

'Extremely talented tax lawyer' is the latest to move in a frenetic hiring market

Kirkland & Ellis hires senior Macfarlanes tax partner in London

US legal giant rebuilds in London following Paul Weiss exits

'I’m not going to be running a cut-the-bankers’-tax campaign,' the lawyer-turned-tax-campaigner tells FN

Dan Neidle: ‘I don’t think we should be taxing bankers more’

The former UK head of tax at Clifford Chance is rattling cages by questioning the tax paid by PE firms and law firm partners

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Senate report says Credit Suisse failed to report bank transfers tied to tax evasion

The transfers may be tied to an ongoing criminal tax conspiracy involving more than $100m held by a family with dual citizenship in the US and Latin America

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DIFC is trying to lure hedge funds by waiving registration costs and reducing capital requirements

Hedge funds fall for Dubai over lower tax rates, softer regulation — portfolio managers want in

So far this year, Dubai has attracted some of the top hedge funds from the UK and US

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Jeremy Hunt has big choices to make ahead of his Autumn Statement on 17 November

Bank surcharge tax set for cut as chancellor fears City competitiveness

With corporation tax hikes now back on, the government is looking to offset the hit on the City

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