Jersey has, according to the Daily Telegraph, not taken kindly to the Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index, in which it came seventh. As they report: The CEO
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Rumour has it that David Cameron has a first in PPE from Oxford. The E stands for economics. However, the only way that’s possible is
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People have been asking me how the book is going. My final edits went to the publisher yesterday. That does not mean that all work
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400 medics have signed the following letter published in the Daily Telegraph today (hat tip to Liberal Conspiracy): Dear Honourable Members of the House of
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London features heavily in the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index. Whilst the UK comes in at number 13 places for which the UK is wholly responsible
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The top slot in the 2011 Financial Secrecy Index goes to Switzerland – now considered the most abusive secrecy jurisdiction in the world as a result. There is good reason
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The Tax Justice Network has published the 2011 Financial Secrecy Index this morning. This is the new ranking: Rank Secrecy Jurisdiction FSI – Value Secrecy Score Global
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I liked an article by Ian Fraser in the Sunday Herald this week. In it he said: The “Big Four” accountancy firms, whose complacency and
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I have now published (at the request of those who supplied them to me) the drafts of the EU Accounting and Transparency directives as they apply to country-by-country
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