The Guardian reported last night that: Labour has said that if it was in government the Department for International Development would stop using the services of the “big four” accountancy firms to deliver aid projects if they or their clients continued to use tax havens. The party said the Luxleaks scandal demonstrated how the firms
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One of the regular commentators on this blog who does, I believe, work for HMRC made this comment last night: And then there is the really big issue [on offshore tax] that does not seem to have taken centre stage, although it yet might? Cameron’s government is committed to closing all but 14 of the
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As the Guardian reported last night: Britain will not make fresh demands of its overseas territories to end tax secrecy at an upcoming anti-corruption summit, the minister for the territories has confirmed. Let me be honest: in my opinion that makes David Cameron wholly unsuited to the task of heading an international conference on corruption
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