Kenneth Thomas researched the following blog and posted it first on his blog, the Middle Class Political Economist. The insight it provides is enormously significant. True, it’s US
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Jim Henry, author of the Tax Justice Network’s report ‘The Price of Offshore Revisited”, discusses the report here: Recommended.  

Hattips: John M, Zerohedge and unitedpublic

Ben Saunders, writing in Taxation yesterday put forward an idea on the right to tax avoid that is, in an area where it’s hard to
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Taxation magazine published an article yesterday on the tax gap by Ed Hagger, a deputy director of H M Revenue & Customs. The article is behind a
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The European Union Savings Tax Directive is a vital weapon against tax evasion. That’s it’s only purpose. Introduced in 2005 it requires that all EU states
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There’s a stunning analysis of the cause of Standard Chartyered’s woes in the FT this morning, by Frank Partnoy, a US professor of law. As he
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I note the FT says this morning: Standard Chartered has sought advice about whether it can pursue a legal action against the US regulator that on Monday accused
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I rather liked this opening paragraph of the Guardians leader this morning: One cheering side-effect of economic depression, is that it provides occasion to recall Keynes’s
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