Publications

Tax Views: The OECD’s reaction to international tax planning

Vern Krishna of TaxChambers LLP discusses the OECD’s reaction to international tax planning in his featured article for The Lawyer’s Daily. Below is an excerpt of the article:

Panama Papers

Recently the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (the “ICIJ”) and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung obtained more than 11.5 million private and confidential financial documents…

2014 OVDP Streamlined / Overview of the 2014 IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) and Enhanced Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures

2014 OVDP Streamlined – Alexey Manasuev recently published an article in Tax Notes International highlighting significant changes to the 2012 IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program…

2014 OVDP Streamlined Update – IRS to Provide Further Guidance on 2014 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) and Enhanced Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures in a Matter of Weeks

Alexey Manasuev attended the 2014 Joint Fall CLE Meeting of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Taxation and Section of Real Property, Trust &…

IRS Border Crossing / Delinquent U.S. Taxpayers Under IRS Scrutiny

Lookout! IRS Border Crossing; Delinquent U.S. Taxpayers Are Under IRS and Homeland Security Cross Fire By Alexey Manasuev* Hiding from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)…

TaxChambers’ Tax Lawyers Quoted in Canadian Capital Magazine

Jonathan Garbutt and David Piccolo quoted by Canadian Capital. Jonathan Garbutt and David Piccolo quoted in the Winter 2011 edition of Canadian Capital. Canadian Capital…

Canadian GAAR Update

On December 16, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released the long-awaited decision in the Copthorne Holdings Ltd case.  For the benefit of our colleagues,…

Canadian Foreign Tax Credits and withdrawals from U.S. IRA

In a recent tax ruling, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) allowed a taxpayer to claim as foreign tax credit a 10 percent income tax surcharge…

Canada starts tax treaty negotiations with Hong Kong

Canada starts tax treaty negotiations with Hong Kong Canada just announced that it will soon commence tax treaty negotiations with Hong Kong.  There is indeed…

Swiss Accounts and Wikileaks

Swiss Accounts and Wikileaks According to an article in the January 19, 2011 edition of the Toronto Star, a former employee at Julius Baer – a…

Credit Suisse Appeals Order

As reported in the November 22, 2010 Globe and Mail, Swiss Bank Credit Suisse is appealing an order to disclose information on unnamed taxpayers to the…

Swiss Information Exchange

On October 22, 2010, Canada signed an information-exchange agreement with Switzerland. The agreement allows CRA to request information on Canadian taxpayers from their Swiss counterparts. This…

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