I was in the Jersey media talking about why France has blacklisted Jersey as a non-cooperative tax haven. In Jersey there is a wish to
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France says Jersey is a tax haven deserving to be penalised for its failure to cooperate in the war on tax abuse
The FT reported last night: France has stepped up its assault on tax havens by blacklisting Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Jersey, in a sudden
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The BVI’s tax information exchange is in chaos – and it’s time the UK acted
As the OECD has noted in a new report on information exchange: British Virgin Islands : The Phase 2 review shows that the Virgin Islands experienced
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The EU tells countries not doing automatic information exchange get on with it, or be fined
Reuters has reported: The European Commission told five European Union countries on Thursday they must enforce new EU laws aimed at tackling tax evasion within
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The OECD is moving in the right direction
The OECD proposal for automatic information exchange, published overnight, has a realistic appraisal of taxpayer and bank behaviour implicit within it. They say: In order to
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Swiss bankers suddenly favour automatic information exchange
Tax-news.com reported this morning that: President of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (SPBA) Nicolas Pictet has urged the Federal Council to abandon its “white money”
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The G20 gives another win to tax justice – automatic information exchange is now the required standard to beat tax evasion
The G20 Finance Ministers’ Communique issued yesterday says (and I have edited it into paragraphs): More needs to be done to address the issues of
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Is Luxembourg smelling the coffee on bank transparency, or just playing a game?
There are several reports this morning that Luxembourg is backing down on the issue of banking secrecy. As the BBC put it: Luxembourg would consider
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Progress towards automatic information exchange with tax havens is inevitable: it’s when, not if
The Economist series on offshore, published as a special report this week, has some powerful nuggets within it. I was talking about automatic information exchange in the Canadian
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