The first question you need to ask yourself is; what are you aiming to achieve? Is it Gibraltar’s relaxed pace of life mixed with sunshine and strong family values that appeals to you most? Or the low taxation benefits on your…
What is Category 2 Residence in Gibraltar?
Category 2 is a tax regime in Gibraltar for high net worth individuals who have net assets of £2 Million or more. It allows individuals to become resident of Gibraltar but there is no minimum days required for the regime. However,…
Sponsored Walk – Great Migration for Whale and Dolphin Conservation
It’s day 115 of the Great Migration for Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Today’s walk is sponsored by Abacus Financial Services who have pledged a generous donation to mark my 800th mile. Abacus is a leading provider of wealth management services and…
COVID-Free…and long may it continue!
You will likely never get to read this anywhere except here because Gibraltar is so small that it barely makes the news even when something really big happens here but….(drum roll)….Gibraltar is the first country in the world to have its…
STOP: DON’T move to the UK without reading this
Or: the benefits of an Excluded Property Trust (EPT) If you’re one of many Hong Kong-based people who are thinking about moving to the UK under the new visa available from January this year, you really need to stop to think…
Spain – Gibraltar Tax Treaty
In March 2019 Spain and the UK, acting on behalf of Gibraltar, agreed the text of a tax treaty (‘the Treaty’) to resolve issues regarding the tax residence of both individuals and companies and to improve cooperation and exchange of information…
Auto-enrolment in Gibraltar is coming. But is it enough?
For most people, that will sound like a largely irrelevant and unpleasantly technical question. Little do they realise just how important it will be to them when they start to think about retirement. Before we explain what it means, we also…
Predicting The Future
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!” – Oscar Wilde. 2020… What a year it was! Now that it finally is behind us, the question of what to expect…
A reflection from our CEO on a new decade
“I am showing my age when I say that, when I was a kid, the year 2000 was so far into the future that all the TV sci-fi programmes we watched in black and white were set around that long distant…