Part 1 of this special edition of Keeping It Civil, the Hassans’ Tax Advisory team, led by Hassans Partner and International Tax Bites host, ⁠Grahame Jackson⁠ with Partner ⁠Chloe Oppenheimer Fa⁠ and Senior Associate ⁠Jesse Monteverde⁠, discuss the recently agreed UK / EU Treaty which will allow:

• fluidity of movement at the border between Gibraltar and Spain, allowing easy access to Spain and the EU for holidays and day trips with reduced risk of border closures and queues;
• the ability to spend 90 days in 180 days in Schengen without being subject to the Entry / Exit Scheme;
• the opening of flight routes to EU destinations;
• investment in the Gibraltar and Campo de Gibraltar area; and
• continuity of the UK-derived legal system,

and the opportunities this will afford High Net Worth Individuals (HNWis) already in Gibratlar and those considering relocating to Gibraltar.

In this episode the Tax Advisory Team in the shape of Partners Grahame Jackson (also Chair of the Gibraltar Association of Tax Advisers) and Chloe Oppenheimer Fa discuss the headline provisions of the Gibraltar Budget 2024.

In the last episode of the Hassans Environment Prize Trilogy, host and project team lead Tania Rahmany catches up with Headteacher at Bayside Comprehensive School, Gaynor Lester.

A three pronged project, the School are involving a number of their education departments to create:

Tania and Gaynor discuss how the projects are going so far and what the next steps are.

The second podcast in the Hassans' Environment Prize trilogy, hosted by Senior Associate and project lead, Tania Rahmany, is with Gibraltar College’s Assistant to Business and Social Sciences Sarah-Jane Roberts and Curriculum Co-ordinator, Vanessa Saccone Recagno.  

Their project aim was to provide their Level 1 students with a PBL (project-based learning) field trip to La Granja Escuela in Los Barrios in Spain to foster a love for nature, and an understanding of environment and to continue building their knowledge of environmental factors and sustainability measures through the creation of a plant centre within the College. 

Learn more about the experience and the outcomes in this podcast and also view a video that the students produced for World Earth Day here. 

Senior Associate and Hassans' Environment Prize project lead, Tania Rahmany, welcomes Dr Awantha Dissanayake and Masters’ Student Viviane Wiedecke from the School of Marine and Environmental Science at the University of Gibraltar in the first of a trilogy of podcasts catching up on the progress each winning project has made.

This project focuses on coral restoration within Gibraltar waters and is aimed at engaging the whole community in being able to monitor, both via dives and via digital technology, the status of Astroides calycularis through the installation of specific tools such as coral frames which will encourage growth. The community will also be given the opportunity to “adopt-a-coral”, so that they can support and even perhaps enjoy seeing the growth of new marine life for themselves.

Keeping It Civil Podcast host Selwyn Figueras talks to Hassans' Gaming Partner Andrew Montegriffo, Senior Associate, Louise Federico and Trainee Solicitor Anna Buhler to discuss the latest developments in gaming industry in Gibraltar and further afield, following their recent attendance at ICE in London.

The new legislation soon to be implemented for Gibraltar is also discussed, the provenance of the amendments and the benefit therein, as well as what a Treaty for Gibraltar in relation to Brexit will mean for the industry and Gibraltar business. Selwyn's pet subject of AI makes a brief appearance!

Ian Felice, Hassans’ Partner and Sports Law specialist, is host to the phenomenal Lewes FC CEO, Maggie Murphy.

Maggie tells us how the UK football club has become known as Equality FC - the first (and currently only) professional or semi-professional club in the world to start treating its women footballers the same as its men – the same playing budgets, same pitch, same training facilities - and how this came to fruition after the club was brought back from the brink of collapse, with its Directors in 2017 having the vision and voice to launch the ground-breaking Equality FC campaign, and with Maggie appointed by the club as CEO in 2019.

International Tax Bites podcasters, Grahame Jackson, Tax Partner at Hassans and Harriet Brown of Old Square Tax Chambers join Selwyn Figueras, Hassans’ Partner and podcast host of Keeping It Civil, to discuss the launch of the duos recent mini-series, “Designing the Perfect Tax System”.

The 10-part series, topped and tailed with an introduction and a round up, welcomes the great and good of the international tax world, kicking off with Dan Neidle, investigate journalist and ex-Clifford Chance UK Tax Partner.

Over the course of the next few weeks, ITB will be publishing further episodes with the likes of Daniel Bunn, Thornton Matheson, Sam Mitha, Paul Eastwood, Carlos Protto and Peter Dietsch.

This podcast provide listeners with an excellent snapshot of the fascinating discussions had with key tax professionals from around the globe.

Guest host, Hassans’ Tax Partner Grahame Jackson, talks to Harriet Brown of Old Square Tax Chambers, London on what Gibraltar entities should do on receiving a request for information from the UK’s HMRC.

Following the introduction of the UK DTA, requests under Section 6A of the Income Tax Act 2010 into Gibraltar are increasingly common. The duo discuss what individual and companies should do, and what they shouldn’t, to avoid potentially hefty penalties.

Following recent news of upcoming regulatory changes in UK and the EU, Hassans' Grahame Jackson talks to the Managing Director of Sovereign Wealth, Eamon Bermingham, on how ESG will evolve to be at the centre of investing.

The pair discuss greenwashing, the shift to a triple bottom line focus (people, planet, profit) and how sustainability will be the key to structuring ESG investment portfolios as the space matures.