I was discussing this question with a friend today. He wanted to know what such a provision would look like. I said I’d been told
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As the Economic Times of India notes: Will renegotiating the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with Switzerland help the country get a grip on the menace
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Reuters report: Italy plans to take action against firms that invest funds in tax havens and is considering drawing up its own blacklist of such
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John Whiting of the Chartered Institute of Tax has argued with the new policy of naming and shaming tax offenders who have had to make
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Sol Picciotto is is an emeritus professor at Lancaster University and, like me,  a senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network. He had an article
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Prem Sikka has noted: The FSA is seeking help from the "big four" accounting firms — Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young — for
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The government announced £1.4 billion of spending on green projects in the Budget. Not enough, we all know, but better than nothing. We also all
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From Al Jazeera:

The Bermuda Royal Gazette (where else could have such a paper?) reports: Offshore financial centres (OFCs) are facing a "Doomsday scenario" as the world’s major
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