From today’s Observer: J Sainsbury and US retail giant Best Buy have launched VAT-dodging CD and DVD websites ahead of the busy Christmas trading rush
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The BBC World Service ran a programme on offshore financial centres on Friday. It’s available here. I’m on at about 14 minutes in.

From Swissinfo: With Ireland coming under increasing pressure to raise corporate taxes, Swiss cantons are eyeing the opportunity of seizing a greater share of company
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I have just been sent a Press Association story I can’t find on the web yet, saying: Ireland’s main opposition party is to call a
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Joseph O’Conner has written in the Guardian on the core of the Irish dilemma: Far from the gloomy headlines and crushing statistics lies the full
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As the Guardian notes: The government is spending millions of pounds employing firms that audit its accounts to also carry out vast swaths of its
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David Cameron claimed yesterday that “Social unrest would have been likely if housing benefit payments had not been slashed”. Oh yes. people were going to
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Global Financial Integrity , a Tax Research UK partner in the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development have reported: “The Drivers and Dynamics
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Global Financial Integrity director Raymond Baker has just written a new piece for the Huffington Post discussing GFI’s new report on illicit financial flows (IFFs)
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