Good to see some picking up the message that there are serious problems with the OECD approach to tax haven listings. This came out overnight:
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This has been an extraordinary afternoon — and one where it has been hard to blog. Gordon Brown declared the end of the Washington Consensus
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I got a question in to Gordon Brown at the PM’s press conference this afternoon. It’s a minor first but I’ll claim it. I’ve just
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Just had another briefing. The communiqu?© is strong. Sarkozy can live with it. But no ‘black list’. Although time scales to avoid being on one
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Fascinating noises coming out from the discussions. One of the reasons why we won’t be getting a tax haven listing today is, I understand, that
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Robert Peston has said on the BBC that tax havens are done and dusted. God knows who he is talking to. I’m not getting that
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Tax havens were the one thing on which there was meant to be guaranteed delivery at the G20. Right now the tax haven paragraph of
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Three reasons so far: 1) Bumped into Jon Snow from Channel 4 and got 6 of us blogger interviewed foirstr thing this morning 2) Met
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From the Wall Street Journal Governments of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations are nearing agreement on measures aimed at cracking open secretive
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