These are my links for May 22nd:
Germany offers black money data, India dithers-India-The Times of India - Just do it
Power boss blasts UK tax regime - Accountancy Age - Pure personal politics unrelated to any economic reality
FT.com / In depth - Moody’s launches review in wake of errors - Very soon the credit crunch will [...]
The Swiss Private Banker’s Association has looked at the consequences of making tax evasion a criminal offence in Switzerland (where it does not have that status at present) and has found that after asking someone they call a highly regarded expert on the subject - Professor Xavier Oberson, of Geneva University that the change:
would lead [...]
The annual Tax Justice Network / AABA conference will take place on 3 and 4 July 2008 at Essex University.
The provisional programme is here.
If you want to attend full booking information is available here .
These are usually lively and entertaining events, suitable for academics but staged with others in mind as well.
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It was good to be in the Netherlands yesterday at the conference of the Tax Justice Network in that country.
What was so good about the event was that the event did not just attract TJN people, or those from the support organisations with which we are often associated, such as development agencies (although it was [...]
I was a little shocked (yes, I mean that) to find myself agreeing with Irwin Stelzer in the Telegraph this morning when he said:
So there is a gap in the market for ideas about tax policy, one that must be filled by scholars and scribblers searching for ways to render unto Caesar that which is [...]
You don’t believe me? It was KPMG that said it. OK, they’re only talking VAT, but this is an enormously important tax for the economy and for the companies that operate it. And they’ve issued research showing the follwoing::
- UK tops league table of VAT-friendliness in KPMG International survey
- Multinationals predict shift to indirect taxes [...]
These are my links for May 20th:
Belize Bank | A $10m mystery | Economist.com - Why is that the words Belize, Ashcroft and trouble go so easily together? And why hasn’t he been suspended from the Lords, amd why haven’t his donations to the Tories been returned when his tax status is uncertain?
FT.com / [...]
The Times has reported this morning that:
Some of Britain’s biggest listed companies, including several that have threatened to redomicile abroad, paid little or no corporation tax in Britain in 2007.
Research by The Times shows that FTSE-100 companies - Cadbury, Standard Chartered and British American Tobacco, which have a combined market capitalisation of £75 billion, employed [...]
These are my links for May 19th:
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Guernsey | Lease on Channel Island for sale - Herm is my favourite Channel Island. It is beautiful. But will that survive in the current corrosive atmosphere in the Channel Islands?
FT.com / Comment & analysis / Letters - Try out ‘toff tax’ [...]
I note that UBS, that bastion of tax compliance,last week predicted a:
gradual erosion of governments’ ability to tax.
This must get them very excited, but the comment was made in response to the supposed exodus of companies from the UK.
As Amit Kara, a director of UBS, apparently said:
This is the kind of tax competition we should [...]
