This is just too good not to share. It’s by the BBC’s Paul Mason, today: There’s a parallel universe I always go back to when
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Eclipse 35 eclipsed
What else can I say but that I am delighted that the Eclipse 35 tax avoidance scheme was successfully blocked by HMRC. The Independent give the low
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Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index to be used by Council of Europe to criticise Switzerland.
Swissinfo is as busy as ever today, reporting this morning that: Swiss banking secrecy faces renewed attack from members of the Council of Europe on
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Double dip recession proves Osborne wrong
The UK is on double dip recession. Osborne offered us his vision two year ago. It was of “expansionary fiscal contraction”. His argument was that
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Apple have made one fundamental error – they’ve forgotten what Henry Ford should have taught them
Apple have made record profits. As Aditya Chakrabortty showed in the Guardian yesterday, this is in no small part as a result of shifting production
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Country by country reporting – next week
Are tax havens blameless? Nick Shaxson takes on the Cayman Islands on the BBC Todau programme
As the BBC report: The government has said that it is committed to cracking down on tax avoidance in the UK, but should more be
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Country-by-country reporting in the UK Parliament
As I’ve said, it seems like country-by-country reporting day. The issue was discussed in Parliament yesterday and has been reported in the Guardian. As they reported: A parliamentary inquiry is likely to
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Country-by-country reporting: Lord Browne demands it in the FT
It seems like today is a country-by-country reporting day. I created the concept of country-by-country reporting almost a decade ago with a publication on the Association for
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