The Tax Justice Network for Africa issued this press release today: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2008 Lusaka, Zambia Africa has lost $607 billion (US).
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These are my links for May 9th: BDO Seidman audits criticised by PCAOB – Accountancy Age – Unsurprising. Auditors don’t perform that task any more.
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J?©r?¥me Turquey has a fascinating blog on a German television documentary where a reporter asked a number of banks if they would help move illicit
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Switzerland has announced that: there has been a substantial increase in the amount of tax retained on behalf of the European Union for 2007. The
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The International Herald Tribune reports that: Swiss banks cannot be expected to police foreign clients’ tax affairs, one of the country’s top banking officials said
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These are my links for May 8th: Glaxo and BAT pile on tax pressure UK PLC – Telegraph – OK BAT. You don’t pay any
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The Times reports that: A spokeswoman for BAT confirmed that the company paid no corporation tax in the UK during 2007. I know. I told
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Reuters has reported that: Prosecutors for Sierra Leone’s war crimes court are trying to track down $375 million they say vanished from two U.S. bank
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An Italian paper has reported that (and I quote in Google translation): Two known entrepreneurs [in] Palermo and a senior official of a bank in
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