Tax havens were the one thing on which there was meant to be guaranteed delivery at the G20. Right now the tax haven paragraph of
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Why be at the G20?
Three reasons so far: 1) Bumped into Jon Snow from Channel 4 and got 6 of us blogger interviewed foirstr thing this morning 2) Met
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To HM Government: A correction
I have seen reliable evidence this morning that UK government spokespeople are saying that I have stated that automatic information exchange is not important at
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The WSJ on the G20 outcome
From the Wall Street Journal Governments of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations are nearing agreement on measures aimed at cracking open secretive
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Don’t tell me large companies don’t tax evade
From the Independent: In a move that appeared to be timed to coincide with pressure by President Nicolas Sarkozy for a G20 agreement on curbs
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A Green New Deal is part of the G20 requirement
From today’s Guardian: The UK economy faces a triple crunch: a recession triggered by a major credit crisis, the looming reality of runaway climate change
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G20 Voice bloggers meeting
Weird to be in a room of 50 bloggers all of whom are appearing to ignore the speakers put on to brief us and are
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The G20 – what might happen
The leaked G20 communiqu?© has this to say on tax havens: [T]o take action to identify non-cooperative jurisdictions, including tax havens, and to stand ready
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Tina, Themba and Tiaa
According to the Guardian Gordon Brown sepnt much of yesterday talking about what Simon Hoggart calls Themba – ‘There Must Be An Alternative’ — which
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