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One thing we learnt from Brexit and Trump in 2016: corporations and investors would be wise to have a healthy dose of scepticsm when looking at pre-election polling statistics.
On 17 January 2017, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced her priorities for the government’s Brexit negotiations in her much-anticipated Lancaster House keynote speech.
If 2016 was annus horribilus for the EU, is 2017 looking like it might be any better? The prudent pundit would not touch that question with a barge poll. The saying goes “a week is a long time in politics”. These days a week is an eon.
This episode features serial entrepreneur Amine Azariz, who describes the challenges facing tech founders in Morocco.
From 6 April 2017, non-domiciled individuals who have lived in the UK for more than 15 of the last 20 tax years will be deemed domiciled in the UK and no longer able to be taxed on the remittance basis.
The last month has been dominated by the passage of the Brexit Bill through the House of Lords, not least as the Government does not have a majority in that chamber so has to work harder to get its way.
President Jean-Claude Juncker presented his contribution to the upcoming Rome Summit, taking place later in March and marking the 60th anniversary of the EU.
On 7 December 2016, the Competition and Markets Authority announced its finding that pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer Limited and its distributor Flynn Pharma Limited had abused their respective dominant positions by imposing unfair prices for an anti-epilepsy drug (phenytoin sodium capsules), following a price rise of the drug from £2.83 to £67.50 per pack.
In the words of John F. Kennedy, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
Internationally operating businesses and investors are experienced and well equipped to deal with risk: for example establishing internal processes and seeking external counsel to manage operational, market and regulatory risk.
Foreigners living in Britain left in ‘limbo’ by onerous red tape for residence
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