Last week I wrote about how a person by moving to another State can decide where he/she is taxresident. But just because a person has successfully managed to change his/her tax residency, does not automatically mean that the State, that has the right to tax him/her, also has jurisdiction over his/her divorce or inheritance issues. There are different criteria for each area of law. A person that has lived in the same country all the time, and always paid taxes to the same Stat

It's time to submit the annual tax returns in Finland and Finns are once again going through their receipts and checking for ways to reduce taxes. After all, Finland has made the top ten list of countries with the highest income taxes in the world. Undisputable is however, that Finland is a welfare state much thanks to the high tax levels, and Finns living abroad have a tendency to move back home when having children or in need of healthcare when growing older. But people als

And the day has finally arrived when I get to order a European Certificate of Succession in one of my cases! I have been waiting for a chance to use the certificate in my daily work since 17 August 2015 when the European Inheritance regulation started to apply. A European Certificate of Succession can be used by heirs, executors of wills and administrators of estates in order to prove their position and authority in another Member State. In this particular case I am assisting