The 3,000th post on this blog happened this morning. Roughly 1,000,000 words in 27 months. Has it been worth it? Oh yes. Look at the
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A banker of my acquaintance sent me the following list of challenges for the Banking Code: Banks should be asked to sign up at Board
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I drafted the Tax Justice Network and Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs Code of Conduct on taxation. This is available here. The actual Code
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I’d draw attention to some articles I wrote about Barclays. All suggestion the legal and ethical underpinning that could make a Banking Code on tax
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The Banking Code revives the problem of defining a tax haven. That is a real problem. Defining a secrecy jurisdiction is not problematic. Secrecy jurisdictions
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It’s G20 week. Many hopes have been pinned on it. Many — depressingly- hope it will fail. The braggers will be out i force later
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I refer to you Dennis Howlett’s piece under the above title. I have nothing to add. But let’s be clear — when I accuse my
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