The campaign for country-by-country reporting for the extractive industries is hotting up in Europe. The industry fight back is very strong. Their aim is to preserve
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Source: Paul Krugman, here. As he says, not good, but hardly unprecedented right now. And no cause to panic, at all.

Greece is in crisis. The crisis has many dimensions. It is a debt crisis. It is a banking crisis. It is a currency crisis. And
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Osborne’s abandoned the pasty tax. And the caravan tax. It’s a good question whether or not he should have done; the pasty tax was a
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The 2012 research workshop co-organised by the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs and the Tax Justice Network, will explore connections between tax avoidance, corruption and crisis. The
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The Tax Justice Network will be holding a Seminar on Transfer Pricing in Helsinki, on June 13-15th, 2012. The Seminar is being co-hosted by TJN,
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From Aditya Chakrabortty’s (excellent as usual) column in the Guardian this morning: [On tax avoidance], Sorrell goes one better [than Philip Green]. In September 2008, he wrote
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The FT notes this morning: Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, has accused the government of inflicting “unnecessary damage” on its reputation when it retrospectively
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I’ve just noticed, in the light of what I have just written on Greece that my Green New Deal friend and colleague Colin Hies appears to
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