Cayman Islands' Taxation: Key Developments and Insights
Description
This webinar offers a focused overview of Cayman’s tax related landscape in the context of global transparency and cross border operations. While Cayman is not a traditional direct tax jurisdiction, firms still face important compliance and reporting requirements, and clients often have tax consequences elsewhere. We will explore practical considerations around structuring, substance, information exchange, and common points of confusion. You will come away with a clearer understanding of what matters most in 2026, where risk sits, and how to communicate this effectively to stakeholders.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
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Content
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Cayman tax context and why it still matters
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Transparency and reporting requirements affecting structures
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Substance and operational reality checks
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Cross border tax consequences and common misconceptions
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Practical controls and documentation to reduce risk
Presenters
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Colm Dawson Partner at Walkers |
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Colm is a Partner in our Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group. He advises clients on corporate and regulatory governance, preventing financial crime (anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, counter proliferation financing and financial sanctions advice), economic substance, automatic exchange of information, data protection, and engaging with competent authorities. Colm is involved in assisting clients in preparing for and advising on inspection processes by regulators and engaging with clients and issuing bodies when breach notices or enforcement processes are initiated. Colm regularly acts for asset managers, banks, fund-service providers, virtual-asset issuers, and service providers and insurers. He advises on a range of Cayman Islands, BVI specific and other globally applicable regulatory frameworks. Colm joined Walkers in 2018 spending three years in the Cayman Islands office prior to relocating to the Walkers Hong Kong Office in 2021, from where he oversaw the regulatory offering in the Singapore and Dubai offices.
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Louise Somers Head of Tax Reporting Services at Walkers |
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Louise is the Head of Tax Reporting Services at Walkers, based in the Cayman Islands. Louise has responsibility for overseeing the global reporting services across our Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and Irish offices. She has over 15 years' experience in tax, regulatory and financial services leadership. Louise is a chartered accountant, chartered tax advisor and certified anti-money laundering specialist. |