How Common Is Offshore Tax Evasion? – The Wealth Report – WSJ. Now, there is evidence that offshoring was far more common in the past
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U.S., Switzerland Reach Agreement on UBS Tax Suit (Update1) – Bloomberg.com. The U.S. and Switzerland reached an agreement in principle to settle a Justice Department
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FT.com / Middle East – Caymans court orders freeze on $9bn. Perhaps the IoD would like to explain how the Cayman connection has in this
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FT.com / Lex / Financial services & property – Ireland’s bad banks. The Irish government has outlined a scheme for its bad bank agency Wouldn’t
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Tarp banks award billions in bonuses. Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, which lost $55bn in 2008, between them paid 1,400
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FT.com / Lex / Energy, utilities & mining – Shell . Unlike peak oil theorists, or “potheads”, Shell sees no lack of opportunities from which
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FT.com / Companies / Oil & Gas – Shell sheds 150 senior managers in shake-up. All the senior managers at Royal Dutch Shell have been
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Attracting new clients: what’s wrong with this? | AccMan . Dennis Howlett, rightly, has a go at some marketing spiel on Accountgweb on this theme.
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The UK’s Institute of Directors (basically a club for those already rich who aspire to be richer, preferably, it often seems, at the expense of
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