Ernst & Young – or EY, as it's increasingly known in the market – the London-based, globally-focused accounting and professional services firm,  has acquired Frank Hirth Plc, the U.S. and UK personal tax specialists.

For the first time since she began sponsoring her annual International Tax Conference in 2011, Deborah J. Hicks is arranging for the event to take place online this year, owing to the Covid pandemic, and consequent global lockdown.

After two months of being unable to travel to meet with clients or to sponsor or participate in seminars and conferences, American expat-focused organizations, wealth and tax managers and advocacy groups have turned in growing numbers to videos, webinars and podcasts as a means of staying in touch with their respective audiences. 

Days after the IRS announced a new "revenue procedure" it said would "exempt from foreign trust information reporting requirements certain U.S. individuals' transactions with, and ownership of, certain tax-favored foreign trusts", some tax experts have been coming forward to express doubts about whether the new "procedure" would achieve much, if anything.

London’s historic and atmospheric Smithfield market will host the annual DJH International Tax Conference next month.

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Paul Hocking, one of the best-known figures in the U.K.'s American expat-focused tax community, has died in an accident in Africa, it has been announced.