FT.com / In depth – Iceland bank regulator lines up more cases. Iceland’s top financial regulator is preparing to hand over more cases of suspected
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Banks – oppressing those least able to pay
FT.com / Companies / Banks – Banks make $38bn from overdraft fees. US banks stand to collect a record $38.5bn in fees for customer overdrafts
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Tax and the Left
I have an article under the above title on the Demos Open Left site this morning. I argue: Tax is at the core of the
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The Conservatives, planning a 20% VAT rate (or more)
The BBC note: The Tories have "absolutely no plans" to increase VAT to 20% if they win the next general election, shadow health secretary Andrew
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Tax abuse is endemic in London
A correspondent on this site using the name Tom (which I’m pretty sure is not his real name) has responded to the blog I wrote
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Denmark: a tax haven?
Yes, according to reports in the Copenhagen Post: The number of people using this country to funnel tax-free earnings to the US from the more
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The farce of the OECD tax haven standard
Belgium, like Luxembourg, Singapore, San Marino, the Seychelles, the Isle of Man and Monaco, is a tax haven. The OECD has now declared Belgium to
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GE pays for fraud in its accounts
The FT has reported: General Electric agreed to pay $50m on Tuesday to settle civil accounting fraud charges by US regulators, calling into question the
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