International Estate Planning

The 2006 edition of Private Wealth Management [link requires registration] contains a variety of articles which may be useful for readers interested in international estate planning issues.  Here is a partial list of the articles.

• Paul Stibbard, The Middle East: Middle East market sees rapid growth
• Martin Hess & Christian Kempe, REITs: An attractive asset class
• Christian Jacobs, Savings tax: EU-Swiss agreement on taxation of savings
• Keith Dudley, Money laundering directive: The third EU money laundering directive, trusts and trustees
• Steven Thomas, Collecting art and culture: Legal issues for collectors of art and cultural property
• Marco Cerrato:  Taxation: Taxation of trusts in Italy
• Kent D. Lawson, Reporting to the US IRS: Offshore misdoings, repentance and the US internal revenue service
• Laurent Chambaz, EU Savings Directive: A winning strategy for its promoters or a programmed failure?
• Duncan Smith, Offshore financial centres: Offshore financial centres after the initiative