Gabon has barred transparency campaigner Marc Ona from leaving the national territory.
Marc Ona was detained on the tarmac of Libreville airport on Thursday 6 June while en route to an international meeting on revenue transparency in New York. A Gabonese national, Mr. Ona is the Coordinator of Publish What You Pay Gabon and a [...]
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These are my links for June 5th:
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong - Another informed attack on the tax incidence argument
FT.com / In depth - Clinton to concede to Obama - We needed this now. Now we need Obama as president - a man dedicated to hitting offshore, hard
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These are my links for June 4th:
OECD makes gloomy forecast for UK economy | Business | guardian.co.uk - I wish I was as optimistic as the OECD. There seems little assessment of the impact of fuel and food price changes in here, for a start. Add to that the fact that house prices really are [...]
These are my links for June 3rd:
Tax Research UK / Tax Journal focuses on Jersey - See this comment on buying favour
Sunday Business Post | Irish Business News - The American government has written to dozens of US multinationals with operations in Ireland, seeking sensitive financial information about their activities in the state.
FT.com / Companies [...]
These are my links for June 2nd:
Porn Tax | Venture Chronicles - It’s an interesting new variant on ‘taxing the bads’
Tesco faces new tax questions - Accountancy Age - But it seems that fear of Tescos is so great that the whole article is their apology for what they’re doing
SMEs encouraged to review fair value [...]
These are my links for May 31st:
Senate OK’s bill barring contractors from avoiding tax - The Boston Globe - I know I’m a bit late noting this - but it’s excellent news. The tide is turning on the tax dodgers.
Tax Justice Network: Tax competition: TJN in FT Economists’ forum - Tax competition is harmful
The New [...]
These are my links for May 30th:
Liquidators of Bear Stearns funds lose court appeal - Yahoo! News - The Cayman directors of Bear Stearns Cayman hedge fund had ‘no substantial involvement’ in the business US Court rules. It sounds like a statement of the obvious, or maybe an accurate assessment of the place.
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I was quoted in the Independent on Sunday saying of the new corporation tax review:
It has no representatives from the professions, only one from the TUC, none from small business all of whom have interests in corporate tax - how can it come up with the right answers?
Yet again, I wonder why it is that [...]
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These are my links for May 23rd:
FT.com / Companies / Financial services - Citi’s Weill admits flaw in 2003 succession - It was good for Prince though. And wasn’t that what mattered to him?
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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 [...]
