Common Reporting Standard goes into force

You may remember me reporting that the Common Reporting Standard, an internationally agreed tax reporting mechanism, has now fallen into place and that sharing of financial information has started, retroactively to 1st January 2016.

Time Bomb!

It could be said that uncertainty is the nemesis of good long term financial planning and living in today's world you could be forgiven for throwing your hat in and tucking yourself away for a few years: Hard Brexit, Soft Brexit, Donald Trump, Italian Constitutional Referendum, German and French elections, the rise of nationalism, and the list goes on. 

Your LIFETIME right to vote in UK elections has just been granted.

Harry Schindler, war veteran and lifelong campaigner to reinstate the lifetime right to vote in UK elections, has recently been informed that as UK citizens we will have the right to vote in the next UK elections in 2019, even if we have been resident outside the country for more than 15 years.

For Brexiteers and Remainers alike!

It was only a matter of time before I got onto the subject of Brexit once again. I have been trying to avoid it like the plague and certainly will refrain from offering any views here.

However, I do want to inform you about some very important developments for UK citizens who are living in Italy.