I blogged the UK / French Summit comments on tax havens earlier today and mentioned the problems of  the ‘international standard’ for tax havens /
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From the FT: Sir, As organisations working on the issue of illicit capital flows out of developing countries, and including authors of many of the
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The FT has reported: Stanley Fink, the former chief executive of Man Group known as the “godfather” of the British hedge fund industry, said that
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The CBI in Northern Ireland has backed the Green New Deal, saying: Northern Ireland is 99 per cent dependent on imported fossil fuels for its
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This letter in the Guardian needs reproducing in full: There is an urban myth that all pay in the private sector is frozen, and so
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FT.com / Companies / Financials – Hays sees no end to ‘brutal job market’. If you are 35 years old, have only ever worked in
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Dennis Howlett is angry about the press coverage of PWC. He outlines the Satyam audit saga like this: Satyam was a fraud: PWC audit partners
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There is a new post on the above blog, where I begin to explore the consequences of our consuming more of the world’s resources than
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BBC NEWS | Business | Accountants deny new tax dodge. Grant Thornton deny they are flogging tax avoidance and in the process seek to avoid
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