From the budget: Meeting carbon budgets will require a transformation of the way the UK meets its energy needs. The Government’s existing framework will enable
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A new tax amnesty
The budget says Offshore disclosure A New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO) for holders of offshore accounts will run until March 2010. This will give holders of
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A step forward – but not enough
The Budget also announces: from April 2010, an additional rate of income tax of 50 per cent will apply to income over £150,000, and the
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Tax avoidance and the budget
This is what the main parts of the press release on tax avoidance says: Offshore disclosure Please see Press Notice 1 for further details of
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The Budget
12.30 Here we go 12.31 Green already in 12.31 Rebuild financial services – radically I hope 12.32 Assures us there will be no recession. Pretty
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Foot misses the tsunami
Curious that Michael Foot seems to have utterly missed the economic tsunami heading in the direction of the British tax havens in the form of
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Foot – the Gap Review
Michael Foot’s interim report on his work reviewing the UK’s secrecy jurisdictions provides clear indication of three things. The first is that Michael Foot was
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What Will Panama Do Now?
The above is the title of a blog by Bob Bauman for the Sovereign Society. For those who do not know the Sovereign Society is
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Indian debate on offshore heats up
‘How real are the figures on black money abroad?’ . The day secret banking is outlawed is not far off. But India needs more. Richard
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