We heard extraordinary clamour about the inefficiency of HM Revenue & Customs when it lost data about child benefit claimants last year. The data in
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These are my links for August 26th: Swiss shelve money laundering probe into Bhutto, widower – Yahoo! News – Surely no political motive is in
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Feeble Labour folds in the face of anti-tax paranoia
Polly Toynbee has an article with the above title in today’s Guardian. She rebuts the claim that George Osborne made last week that it is
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Jersey to VAT zero rate food? The IFS should take note
It’s curious to note in the light of recent discussion here that Jersey is planning, according to TaxNews.com, to change its newly introduced goods and
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These are my links for August 25th: Tax Justice Network: Stiglitz calls for tax havens to be closed down – Stiglitz calls for coordinated worldwide
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Switzerland can’t have it both ways
Bloomberg has reported that: Switzerland asked the U.S. not to pressure UBS for client data located in the Alpine country as investigators look into whether
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Secrecy jurisidictions are an abuse of the market
I usually ignore right wing blogs, at least when commenting here, for one good reason; they seem so irrelevant given their somewhat loose grasp of
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These are my links for August 24th: Hoges took tax advice from a 'big four' firm – National – smh.com.au – E & Y in
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Why only fines? Doesn’t fraud require more than that?
The FT has reported: Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank on Thursday agreed to buy back up to $14.5bn of auction-rate securities and pay
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