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In a recent Financial Times op-ed, Yousef Al Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to the United States, set out why his country has walked away from OPEC after nearly sixty years — confident, unapologetic, sin complejos. For HNWIs and family offices, that is more than a headline; it is a signal. But relocating successfully takes more than sunshine and 0% tax. It takes treaty strategy, legal substance, and advisors who see the whole board.
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Your life crosses borders. A home in London, another in Andalusia, children settled in the Gulf, a business with operations in three countries, a will that works under English law but not in Spain. You are bouncing between advisers who rarely speak to each other. After twenty-five years between London, Madrid and the GCC, I write here for you — about the human side of cross-border life, and how the law can serve it.…

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The era of taxing companies is giving way to the era of taxing wealth. That is the central argument of my latest article, “Why Private Wealth is the Next Tax Frontier”, published this month in Taxation — the LexisNexis/Tolley title that has been the United Kingdom’s leading journal for tax professionals for over a century. You can read the full piece at https://www.taxation.co.uk/articles/why-private-wealth-is-the-next-tax-frontier …

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