How to avoid double taxation
By: Dennis Swing Greene
EU gets tough on grime
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews brussels@portugalresident.com THE FIRST major European Council held during the German Presidency secured a breakthrough agreement across Europe on the importance of combating climate change. Member states agreed
Tax investigations – a big change
By: Bill Blevins
A burning issue
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews philip.bushill-matthews@portugalresident.com Philip Bushill-Matthews MEP and Conservative Spokesman for Employment and Social Affairs. THE AMOUNT of waste produced each year in Europe is equivalent to half a tonne
New year, new faces
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews philip.bushill-matthews@portugalresident.com Philip Bushill-Matthews MEP and Conservative Spokesman for Employment and Social Affairs. THE FIRST full meeting of 2007, for European Parliament, has seen a number of changes.
A tale of two central banks
By: David Johnson
Equity release and home reversion
By: John Westwood blacktower.financial@portugalresident.com OVER THE past decade property prices in Southern Europe and, in particular, Portugal and Spain, have gone up substantially. While this is a most welcome development
High inflation can damage your financial security
By: Bill Blevins bill.blevins@portugalresident.com INFLATION IS such an insidious destroyer of wealth that I sometimes wonder why it is not given a wealth warning. It can be likened to a
UK inheritance net spreads ever wider
By: Bill Blevins bill.blevins@portugalresident.com IT CAN’T have been more than a generation or two ago when inheritance tax (IHT) wasn’t featured in most people’s everyday conversation. Today, it is. When
Helping to safegaurd your wealth in Portugal
By: Bill Blevins