Comments on: Who are the supplies of corruption services? http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/ Richard Murphy on tax and corporate accountability Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Tax Research UK / UBS banker indicted on Liechtenstein fraid charges http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-432313 Tax Research UK / UBS banker indicted on Liechtenstein fraid charges Wed, 14 May 2008 09:55:43 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-432313 [...] I can say is this: I warmly welcome this approach. It is absolutely essential that those who supply corruption services are prosecuted. They commit economic crimes, even when they work for the largest banks and [...] [...] I can say is this: I warmly welcome this approach. It is absolutely essential that those who supply corruption services are prosecuted. They commit economic crimes, even when they work for the largest banks and [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / Auditors assist fraud http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-431845 Tax Research UK / Auditors assist fraud Tue, 13 May 2008 11:06:02 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-431845 [...] What he’s saying is that accountants are suppliers of corruption services. [...] [...] What he’s saying is that accountants are suppliers of corruption services. [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / Stephen Green: Britain’s biggest provider of corruption services? http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-392530 Tax Research UK / Stephen Green: Britain’s biggest provider of corruption services? Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:41:18 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-392530 [...] do I know this? Well, it just so happens that Rev Green one of the biggest suppliers of corruption services in the world. He’s, amongst other things, chair of HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA. [...] [...] do I know this? Well, it just so happens that Rev Green one of the biggest suppliers of corruption services in the world. He’s, amongst other things, chair of HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA. [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / Liechtenstien: tax evasion is like a motoring offence http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-384593 Tax Research UK / Liechtenstien: tax evasion is like a motoring offence Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:50:32 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-384593 [...] The evidence seems clear that he is avoiding the issue and exonerating those who are evading tax by belittling the issue as inconsequential. In that case I stand by my suggestion that Liechtenstein is a corrupt state that knowingly supports the supply of corruption services. [...] [...] The evidence seems clear that he is avoiding the issue and exonerating those who are evading tax by belittling the issue as inconsequential. In that case I stand by my suggestion that Liechtenstein is a corrupt state that knowingly supports the supply of corruption services. [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / The Star Initiative: Tackling Corruption http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-364039 Tax Research UK / The Star Initiative: Tackling Corruption Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:24:41 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-364039 [...] fair and square bangs the nail on the head. None of this could happen without the suppliers of corruption services. As Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala puts [...] [...] fair and square bangs the nail on the head. None of this could happen without the suppliers of corruption services. As Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala puts [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / Why argue as I do? http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-320849 Tax Research UK / Why argue as I do? Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:06:20 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-320849 [...] That’s why we say that anyone who is serous about tackling poverty has to be serious about tax abuse, the use of tax havens and curtailing the activities of the suppliers of corruption services. [...] [...] That’s why we say that anyone who is serous about tackling poverty has to be serious about tax abuse, the use of tax havens and curtailing the activities of the suppliers of corruption services. [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / What is the BBC doing? http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-166302 Tax Research UK / What is the BBC doing? Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:00:16 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-166302 [...] I note the BBC has just decided to pull out of an environmental broadcast on the basis to might threaten its impartiality. Well so does this. Much more seriously, because spreading the supply of corruption services is unethical however you look at it. And taking cash in exchange is just about the poorest excuse that can be offered. That just makes you a partner in the destruction of society as we know it. Which is worse that simply talking about it. [...] [...] I note the BBC has just decided to pull out of an environmental broadcast on the basis to might threaten its impartiality. Well so does this. Much more seriously, because spreading the supply of corruption services is unethical however you look at it. And taking cash in exchange is just about the poorest excuse that can be offered. That just makes you a partner in the destruction of society as we know it. Which is worse that simply talking about it. [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK / World Bank agrees to tackle the ’supply side’ of corruption http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-22397 Tax Research UK / World Bank agrees to tackle the ’supply side’ of corruption Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:40:35 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-22397 [...] It still leaves World bank understanding a long way off target, but this last point is very welcome. Let’s just they really understand just how big the supply side is. [...] [...] It still leaves World bank understanding a long way off target, but this last point is very welcome. Let’s just they really understand just how big the supply side is. [...]

]]> By: Chris Steel http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-6989 Chris Steel Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:44:44 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/01/15/who-are-the-supplies-of-corruption-services/#comment-6989 Richard has chosen the right word in Cancer to discribe corruption and ist links to tax havens. Cancer, the medical kind, and its treatments leaves the body totally wrecked, temporarily or permentally, as I know from my own experience. Cancer, caused by corruption, greed, globalisation, and its links to tax havens will destroy many countries. Not just developing countries, but the tax havens that participate in tax avoidance, evasion and capital flight. I believe that the small island economies that are dominated by the "financial services industry" may well be bankrupt economically, socially and politically, as Cancer always destroys good to be replaced by evil. Richard has chosen the right word in Cancer to discribe corruption and ist links to tax havens.

Cancer, the medical kind, and its treatments leaves the body totally wrecked, temporarily or permentally, as I know from my own experience.

Cancer, caused by corruption, greed, globalisation, and its links to tax havens will destroy many countries. Not just developing countries, but the tax havens that participate in tax avoidance, evasion and capital flight.

I believe that the small island economies that are dominated by the “financial services industry” may well be bankrupt economically, socially and politically, as Cancer always destroys good to be replaced by evil.

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