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...A senior audit partner at one large accounting firm said Frasers had “bought themselves credibility by hiring the ex-sheriff”....
...Fine wine exchange Liv-ex too offers rare whiskies on its online site. Although many buyers prefer bottles, the cask market has gained in prominence among collectors....
...As a collector, I want to claim the space that they were so long denied.”...
...A year later, Cairn was served with a $1.6bn tax bill, and the two have been duking it out ever since....
...Advisers to G4S bidder GardaWorld in line for £312m payday (FT) Russian online bank Tinkoff pulls out of $5.5bn Yandex sale (FT) Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty House bids for Thyssenkrupp steel unit (FT) Ex-Tiger...
...“It could be a boon for private collectors,” said Justin Gibbs, co-founder of Liv-ex, an online marketplace....
...Most are overdue bills; some of these have morphed into demands from debt collectors or county court summonses for unpaid debts....
...Born in 1435, Verrocchio was the son of a tile-maker turned tax collector....
...Gross (an avid stamp collector) thought to himself. He went to see a psychiatrist and returned with a formal diagnosis....
...Mr d’Offay held the position of ex officio curator at Tate, overseeing the Artist Rooms project, until last month....
...And I’m particularly curious how feelings about the Trump tax cuts are going to play out this November....
...At the heart of the book is an unlikely hero: the national tax collector. The South African Revenue Service was one of the success stories of the first decade or so of majority rule....
...The trial has also led to scrutiny about the tax affairs of the Candys, who were once tax exiles in Monaco....
...Richard Ravitch, the former New York lieutenant-governor, serves in place of the governor as an ex officio member and does not hold a vote....
...But while artists and collectors are rallying, others are celebrating....
...Liv-ex — the international wine trading exchange — has an investable wine index, made up of top Bordeaux wines from various vintages since 1990....
...Far better to deal with finance ex ante, rather than tut-grandstanding about it ex post. An innovation, or too much hassle?...
...To get around this, Liv-ex has developed in-bond contracts to attest to the condition of a case of fine wine including information on tax status, physical condition and storage history....
...Offsetting leasing charges against tax is cited as a key benefit by most art-leasing firms....
...Dave Hartnett, who, as the UK’s chief tax collector negotiated the UK’s deal with Switzerland over stolen HSBC account files, has recently come under fire for his subsequent role as an adviser to the same...
...Mr Rybolovlev’s rise as an art collector coincided with a stunning surge in the art market....
...Freeports allow goods to be stored in tax free zones and afford clients — which range from galleries and art collectors to private investors — a great deal of secrecy....
...The group, run by ex-Christies finance director Philip Hoffman, also runs an art advisory service. Sometimes, individual shares can be a proxy for the returns on alternative assets....
...I made my first £1m pre-tax profit in 1987, and told my team our next target was £10m. We all enjoyed a glass of champagne in the office and somebody bought a rather large chocolate cake....
...In the 11 EU member states who have agreed to impose it (most of core Europe, ex the Netherlands, and definitely ex the UK), there will be a tax of 0.1 per cent on the market value of transactions in cash...
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