I’m going to take a liberty a re-post a big part of someone else’s blog — partly because I know the author happily (and with
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Tax havens handle stolen property. This is not by accident, this is by design. The tale of the creation of Swiss banking secrecy says it
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There’s been a lot of pro-tax haven comment on this blog over the last day or two. It was sparked by a letter in the
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There’s an important article in the Wall Street Journal today. It says: The Obama administration has finally come up with a plan to deal with
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What follows comes from The Australian. It was published with the above title. It reflects comments I made to a packed meeting at the Foreign
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I guess it was going to happen one day. Someone called Andrew Brooks has taken offence at my comments on the decision of the UK
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From the Irish Independent: AIB’s stockbroking arm used black-listed tax havens to circumvent rules preventing it from buying and selling the bank’s shares, the bank’s
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From the FT: Sir, Your correspondent writes, in his article about Swiss bank secrecy (“A vault unlocked”, March 24), that Swiss secrecy laws “date back
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The Guardian has reported: [I]n London, investors sent shockwaves through financial markets by shunning a £1.75bn auction of government gilts So on Monday Mervyn King
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