First up on the broad agenda for tax haven reform that I’m now looking at will be the EU Savings Tax Directive. Massive reform of
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The G20 raised awareness of the tax haven issue. That has been a great result. Those who ever thought it would resolve all the issues
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The Observer has an article today on a letter sent by Gordon Brown to the OECD before the G20 summit issued its communiqu?©. I saw
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It’s been a gruelling few weeks in the run up to the G20. The G20 was gruelling. I’m taking the weekend and maybe a day
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The G20 has said that 12 tax information exchange agreements are enough for a jurisdiction to get off its tax haven listing and so avoid 
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The Tax Justice Network has produced a draft briefing paper on Tax Information Exchange Agreements, the flaws within them and how they can be rectified.
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Another perspective at AccountingWEB.

Grey haired man in grey suit:   . asks question of grey haired man in grey suit: He looks chuffed, doesn’t he?

This is from the TJN blog yesterday: The aid campaigner Bob Geldof apparently just told Richard Murphy, in front of a scrum of cameras, that
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