I have already commented briefly on the STEP report on international finance centres — otherwise called tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions. I was challenged to
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The Other TaxPayers’ Alliance | BBC admits errors in TaxPayers’ Alliance reporting. In a recent post we asked who would be the first journalist to
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Tax Justice Network: Financial Secrecy Index – what the papers said. TJN survey of press reaction to the Financial Secrecy Index.

FT.com / Companies / Banks – Improper trading case adds to woes for UBS. News on Thursday that employees in UBS’s wealth management division in
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PwC off the hook over Satyam? Not so fast!. Dennis Howlett on PWC’s legal manoeuvrings to get out of liability for the Satyam audit. As
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Union backing public sector workers as cutbacks loom – Isle of Man Today . THE president of trade union Prospect has pledged its support for
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BBC – Douglas Fraser’s Ledger: An extremely bleak spending winter. But there’s another lesson for those hoping to design a change in [Scotland’]s tax powers:
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A minor furore has broken out in the comments section of this blog on whether or not I am right to claim that about 50%
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