Jack Blum, Car Levin and friends in action, with telling points:
The FT must accept its own argument: tax havens cause market failure
The FT, as the Tax Justice Network is pointing out, is lending support to those aiding tax havens right now. But it’s also promoting a
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 9th through March 10th
These are my links for March 9th through March 10th: Tax Justice Network: The FT thinks tax havens are a diversion – TJN demolishes the
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Why Jersey can’t information exchange
By now Jersey has signed its tax information exchange agreement with the UK. This is not worth the paper it is written on. There are
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Memo to the G20 and OECD : not good enough
The Guardian has reported (edited): The OECD is also working on a fresh blacklist of uncooperative countries. [C]entres of secretive offshore activity, including Liechtenstein and
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Don’t shout about it Jersey
Jersey has signed a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with the UK. As the Guardian says (with edits): Terry Le Sueur, chief minister of the
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The elephant test
There are those who are arguing that they aren’t tax havens Of late we’ve heard it from Jersey, Guernsey, Switzerland, the Isle of Man, Bermuda,
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Tax havens harm developing countries
Gordon Brown is on message on the impact of tax havens on development. He said yesterday: At the London Summit we will set out new
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The OECD’s tax haven sanctions
In 2004 the OECD published a list of sanctions that might be taken against tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions. They were: The use of provisions
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