New Zealand is one of the world’s lesser known tax havens — and a pernicious one. Take this example: As a non-New Zealand resident bondholder,
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Paul Collier of Oxford is speaking at the Task Force — he chairs its economists panel. One third of Africa’s wealth is outside Africa he
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Staggering — capital flight out of South Africa could be 20% of GDP. That’s massive organised theft. And the big increase is transfer mispricing. That
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September’s ‘Want Work’ figures | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. This is important: There are five and a half million people
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Bloomberg and many others note a proposal from Switzerland this morning (I’m in US time zone). They say: Swiss banks proposed a withholding tax for
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What has the TPA got against molecules, atoms, stars and space? | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. The Taxpayer’s Alliance displays
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Chip Poncy of the US Treasury is talking on ‘know your client’ obligations as required in FATF rules — those things places like Jersey like
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion – A tax on finance to help the world’s poor [T]to fund development, we have to think about introducing a
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Proposal #5: Clamp down on tax evasion through tax havens | LabourList.org. This is my appeal for an attack on tax havens to feature high
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