As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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The UK has a constitutional duty to impose direct rule on the BVI to bring its role as a secrecy jurisdiction to an end
The FT has noted that: The acting premier of the British Virgin Islands, Natalio Wheatley, has rejected as “unacceptable” the reimposition of direct rule from
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The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is failing society with its proposals on accounting for climate change
I noted that the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation had issued, through its International Sustainability Standards Board, two new standards on accounting for environmental change
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Accounting for Environmental Change: the Corporate Accountability Network issues a new draft Financial Reporting Standard that says its time to account for net-zero
The Corporate Accountability Network is launching a new report today, which includes a draft Financial Reporting Standard for Accounting for Environmental Change. This embraces the
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Trust registration starts from 1 September: another barrier to tax transparency is falling
In 2005 John Christensen and I wrote this in Tax Us If You Can – the manifesto of the fledgling Tax Justice Network that went
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We need open corporate registries now
Tax Research UK was one of 127 signatories to this statement, issued yesterday: This statement, signed by 127 leading transparency, anti-corruption, journalist and open data
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A political commitment to transparency has to be our reaction to this war. Our contribution to ‘never again’, if you like.
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: To pretend that the world is anything like that we lived in two or so weeks ago.
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If the Economic Crimes Bill is to be meaningful it has to make UK professionals responsible for what they are doing
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022 will be debated by the Commons on Monday, with the aim that it passes in a day. The
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The minimum level of business disclosure that we need in the UK if we are to beat dirty money
Yesterday afternoon I made the mistake of watching Kwan’s Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, announce in the House of Commons what he claimed to be the
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