The FT has reported: Senior executives at UBS, the Swiss bank being investigated by US authorities, knew some of their bankers had acted in a
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UN pushes higher priority for tax cooperation
Highly promising signals are now emerging from the United Nations, which is preparing a summit meeting of world leaders in Doha in November-December this year
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 12th
These are my links for August 12th: Nowhere to hide as taxman steps up tax probe – Accountancy Age – Every cloud has a silver
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Are penalties biased?
Over at TaxationWeb: Richard Murphy looks at a consultation document by HM Revenue & Customs and asks why the tax penalty regime seems to be
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Jeresey doesn’t deserve to be on anyone’s white list
The Jersey Evening Post has published an article saying: AN Island firm with special expertise in regulatory law is deeply critical of the omission of
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Bono: from the horse’s mouth
28% of US corporations aren’t paying tax
The Washington Post has reported that: About two-thirds of corporations operating in the United States did not pay taxes annually from 1998 to 2005, according
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Shinawatra has to go back
The Guardian has reported: The former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra skipped bail yesterday and fled to exile in Britain, claiming he could not expect
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The pension model is broken – so let’s fix it
It’s reported that: The UK’s Pension Protection Fund faced a total shortfall of £80.1bn ($153bn) at the end of July from pension schemes in deficit,
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