FT.com / Brussels / Economy – Eurozone banks face $283bn writedowns . Eurozone banks face additional losses of more than $283bn this year and next
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FT.com / Companies / Aerospace & Defence – Airbus set to gain aid for A350. European governments are set to agree within weeks on providing
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The Guardian has reported the new Cayman double tax treaty, saying: [The UK has] signed an agreement with .. the Cayman Islands, to enable the
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The Put People First coalition has issued new campaign demands following the G20 summit ion London in April. Thos that relate to matters of primary
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The Guardian has reported that: The UK is backing calls to force multi national companies to reveal precisely how much tax they pay in each
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This is  from today’s Guardian: You are an opposition politician in a developing country rich in minerals. You want to establish exactly how much tax
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The standard OECD Tax Information Exchange Agreement includes this clause in Article 5: 4. Each Contracting Party shall ensure that its competent authorities for the
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Signed today — and slipped out on HMRC’s web site without a press release (I wonder why?) is a double tax agreement (yes, I mean
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A nation of accountants | Prem Sikka | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . The UK has about 50,000 family doctors, but nearly 280,000 professionally
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