Monday, June 27, 2016

BREXIT the day after #TWU #BMO >>DAY 3 #BANKFEES #Money #investing #finance #MoveMyMoney


BREXIT the day after #TWU #BMO >>DAY 3
#BMO #Money #investing #finance #MoveMyMoney

 
 
click the links see for yourself
 
 BMO $61.35* 1.302.08%        http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/bmo
 
  4:00 PM EDT 06/27/16   $80.26 CAD       http://quotes.wsj.com/CA/BMO

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Will this be "Coming to a #BMO near you" #TWU

Blogger note: this speaks for itself
see     www.theproverbialfixisin.blogspot.ca/2015/03/top-10-reasons-why-bmo-is-going-down-7.html

Top 10 reasons Why BMO is going down # 7 More competion for #BMO #Money #investing #finance #MoveMyMoney
 Still on reason #7  COMPETITION on Canadian Market 
#BMO #Money #investing #finance #MoveMyMoney





Royal Bank sparks backlash with fee hikes in the Caribbean

Customers line up to close their accounts after RBC introduces new banking charges


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Sophia Harris · Business reporter sophia.harris@cbc.ca ·CBC News2 Hours Ago
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RBC customers line up at a branch in Kingstown, Saint Vincent to withdraw their cash. New monthly bank fees introduced in the last two months caused a run on RBC branches in some parts of the Caribbean. (Jerry S. George/IWN)
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Royal Bank is the only big Canadian bank that hasn't announced any personal banking fee hikes in this country this year. But it's still facing the wrath of customers — in the Caribbean.
Some RBC Caribbean clients are so upset over new monthly charges, they lined up for hours to close their accounts. 
"Customer exit continues at Royal Bank," read one recent headline on a local news story about a run on an RBC branch in St. Kitts. 
"RBC customer pull-out spreading throughout the region," announcedanother article.
RBC wouldn't confirm details to CBC News, but it appears that customers in at least seven Eastern Caribbean countries — including Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines — are now facing a monthly charge of 25 East Caribbean dollars ($11.75 Cdn) for some personal bank accounts. 
Seniors with an RBC Sixty Plus account will be charged a $12.50 XCD ($5.88 Cdn) monthly fee.
Minimum wage in St. Kitts is $4.23 Cdn an hour, the highest minimum wage among the countries affected. 
The bank rolled out the new charges between May 23 and June 20 at a time when it's enjoying multi-billion-dollar profits. Numbers released at the end of May showed RBC boosted its second-quarter profit by three per cent to $2.57 billion Cdn. 
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RBC posted notices in its Antigua branch warning customers of bank fee changes — though the notice does not specify what the changes entail. (Tameika Malone/Observer)

Fees that bite

So many people chose to close their accounts, police in St. Kitts and Nevis even sent out an alert, urging RBC customers to use caution when withdrawing their money.
"Keeping it around the home, office, under the bed, or on your person and not in another financial institution is not a wise choice," the alert said.
Melisa Boutin, an RBC customer who lives in New York but keeps some of her money in a branch in St. Kitts, says the new fee is just too high for the average customer.
"Going from zero to $25 XCD is too much," she said. "They should have expected this kind of backlash." 
Boutin says she plans to close her account the next time she visits St. Kitts, where she grew up.
She says she has spoken with friends on the Caribbean island who joined the rush to pull out of RBC.
One friend lined up for four hours, Boutin said. Another chose to avoid the crowds and withdrew all her cash from an ATM.
"People feel it's a money grab on the part of Royal Bank," said Boutin. "There's no better service coming with that."
Services such as online and mobile banking, for example, have been slow in coming for RBC's Caribbean customers, she claims.
The bank has branches in 17 Caribbean countries and territories, where it serves more than one million customers.
Timothy Harris Prime minister of St. Kitts
Prime Minister Timothy Harris of St. Kitts and Nevis issued a statement expressing concern over new RBC bank fees in the country. (Government of St. Kitts and Nevis)
The fees sparked such anger in the Caribbean, politicians even weighed in. Timothy Harris, the prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, said his government regretted "any inconvenience or hardship caused to our public" because of the charges.
He also urged the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to expedite its plan to examine commercial bank fees. 
RBC has acknowledged the backlash. 
"We recognize that recent changes to our service fees in the Caribbean are causing concern among some clients in the region," spokesman A.J. Goodman told CBC News in an email.
He said RBC adjusted some fees in parts of the Caribbean "to reflect the cost of doing business in these countries."
The bank continues "to deliver good value and competitive pricing" in the region, he said.
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Customers crowd outside an RBC branch in St. Kitts. (WINN FM)

Some learned of fee on social media

RBC's explanation doesn't comfort Boutin, who works as a financial educator.
"If you have to introduce a fee to improve your bottom line, I can understand that. But I don't think that they have their customers in mind," she said.
Melisa Boutin Royal Bank
Melisa Boutin in New York says she will close her RBC account the next time she visit St. Kitts. 'Going from zero to $25 XCD is too much,' she said. (Melisa Boutin)
She claims customers like her weren't properly notified about the charges. Boutin learned about the $25 XCD fee on Facebook, just days before it took effect.
A friend announced the news on the social media site after learning about the charge from an RBC bank teller.
"Please don't be a victim of this ripoff," the friend wrote on Facebook. "Spread the word!"
RBC says it notified customers through several channels, including by letter "in some cases," in branches and on its website.
Last year, new fees for Canadian RBC customers were also met with an outcry from the public and politicians — so much so that the bank axed them before they took effect.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

BREXIT the day after #TWU #BMO >>DAY 2


BREXIT the day after #TWU #BMO >>DAY 2

top 10 reason why BMO is going Down 
Reason # 6
lack of Foresight ...more on this later 










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Friday, June 24, 2016

BREXIT the day after #TWU #BMO

more comment later as as see Reason # 6





a lil extra for today  http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/dentons-kpmg-offshore-tax-dodge-1.3618257

see link for original article

Top Canadian law firm endorsed controversial KPMG Isle of Man tax dodge

Dentons lawyer denied involvement, threatened lawsuit before letter was public


Documents show accounting giant KPMG relied heavily on legal advice from prominent Canadian law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain (now Dentons), as KPMG began marketing its 'confidential' tax plan to multimillionaire Canadians. (Harvey Cashore/CBC)

A respected Canadian law firm gave a crucial blessing to an offshore tax dodge using shell companies in the Isle of Man developed by accounting giant KPMG, which the Canada Revenue Agency described as a "sham" and now alleges was "intended to deceive" authorities.
A 17-­page "opinion" letter from law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain  ­— now Dentons — to KPMG is part of a larger package of documents released by the accounting firm last month to the House of Commons finance committee probing its offshore tax avoidance scheme.

Multiple references to the Fraser Milner Casgrain letter in the documents show that KPMG relied heavily on that legal advice as the accounting giant began marketing its "confidential" tax plan that promised multimillionaire Canadians they would pay "no tax" on their investment income. 
The scheme would operate under the radar for more than decade before CRA auditors caught wind of the controversial setup that the agency, in court documents, called "grossly negligent."

The parliamentary committee launched its probe of KPMG's offshore practices and its relationship with the Canada Revenue Agency in the aftermath of revelations by CBC News that federal authorities offered a secret amnesty deal to the wealthy tax dodgers caught using the accounting firm's Isle of Man "product."
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Dentons sponsored a 'tailgate' reception for Canadian Tax Foundation conference delegates in November 2015. (Twitter)
The Fraser Milner Casgrain letter was prepared by Joel Nitikman, a well known tax specialist, in October 1999 and was recently cited by KPMG national tax partner Greg Wiebe in his testimony before the House of Commons committee as evidence of proper "due diligence" by the accounting firm. 
When CBC News contacted Nitikman last year for comment on his letter, he denied knowing anything about the Isle of Man tax plan. Instead, he said he would launch legal action if CBC News reported he provided legal advice on the KPMG offshore scheme. 
"If you do that I'm going to sue you because I didn't provide the legal opinion," he said, "I didn't provide anything. I have no idea what you are talking about," he replied. "I have no connection to that matter at all."
Reached on the phone on May 25, Nitikman said he could not comment on the now public letter due to solicitor-client privilege. A spokesperson for Dentons told CBC News in an email it does not discuss client files. 
In his 1999 letter to the firm, Nitikman wrote KPMG tax official Barrie Philp, "No person other than you may rely on this opinion without our written consent."

Joel Nitikman
Joel Nitikman, a tax lawyer with Dentons, signed off on a letter of legal opinion regarding KPMG’s Isle of Man tax plan. (Dentons)
The KPMG Isle of Man scheme centred on whether offshore cash transfers could be called gifts,­ which are non­taxable, compared to income, which is taxable.  After analyzing a complicated set of proposed transactions Nitikman concluded that the "gift" scheme — that avoided paying tax — could conform to Canadian tax law. 
 "The gift, in our view, is not income" Nitikman stated.
Still, Nitikman cautioned that his advice was based on facts provided by KPMG and another law firm in the Isle of Man, a key player in the offshore scheme. If those facts changed, he wrote, then his opinion might also change.
The CRA alleges that KPMG knew all along its wealthy clients did not intend to "gift" their money away and that the entire structure was a "sham" designed deceive the taxman.
As a tax lawyer, Nitikman has provided legal opinions in other tax-avoidance strategies.

In 2009 a judge ruled against a Barbados-­based offshore scheme for which Nitikman had provided legal advice. The "strategy" the judge wrote, was "so contrary to the object, spirit and purpose, call it what you will, of Canada's taxation laws." 
Nitikman is listed as a member of two committees of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, an umbrella association representing most chartered accountants across the country.
In 2012 he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for "outstanding contributions" to the Canadian Tax Foundation, an industry group made up of tax lawyers and accountants.  
Dentons itself is a prominent law firm with a respected tax practice and a regular participant at the Canadian Tax Foundation's annual meetings. Each year Dentons hosts a "Tailgate Party" for tax industry delegates, including numerous Canada Revenue Agency employees and officials.
Send confidential tips on this story to investigations@cbc.ca or call Harvey Cashore at 416-526-4704