HM Treasury

Otto Thoresen has asked the industry to provide evidence on five key questions feeding into his review on generic financial advice.

HM Treasury has announced the Budget will be delivered by Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at 12.30pm on 21 March.

A joint HM Treasury-DTI paper on the future of the EU's Single Market suggests the government wants to make it easier to cooperate across borders on matters of fiscal policy

Changes to EU money laundering rules are likely to mean advisers will have to check the identity of trust beneficiaries before the trust can be set up, it is understood.

Draft regulations for the implementation of the third EU Money Laundering Directive have been released by the HM Treasury, including a list of products which will benefit from simplified due diligence.

Amid the news on global terrorism this week one role has been forgotten - that of the taxman.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, has just begun delivery of his 2006 Budget speech.

UK residents with savings in Gibraltar will see those savings taxed at a rate of 15% from 1 April next year, rising to 35% after 2011 according to a deal just announced by paymaster general Dawn Primarolo and Peter Caruana, chief minister of Gibraltar....

Isa providers are not allowed to use the voluntary CAT standard applied to Isa investments from April next year, the Treasury has just announced.

Corporate IFAs face further competition from other "professional firms" if the government decides to loosen Financial Services and Markets Act rules regulating occupational pensions trustees' investment activities.