How to soothe an expat headache

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Expat clients likely represent a disproportionate risk to your business, argues Paul Stanfield, chief executive of FEIFA

The last decade has seen the increasing migration of people leaving these shores for pastures new, whether temporarily or permanently. Last year alone, 340,000 British nationals left the UK to join the many millions already permanently based abroad. The relevance from your perspective is that you probably have, or very soon will have, one or more clients that now live abroad, or intend to do so in the near future. How can you effectively advise them, safe in the knowledge that you have all of the information that you need to ensure your usual quality of advice? A taxing problem It w...

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