In 2008 I wrote The Missing Billions for the TUC. Perhaps the most significant finding was this: For the top 50 companies in the FTSE
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TJN blogged this yesterday. It’s too important not to share. TJN’s Senior Adviser Sol Picciotto and writer Nicholas Shaxson mentioned this in their Financial Times comment
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I like the summary of tonight’s Panorama which says Panorama goes undercover to investigate corporate service providers – the people and companies who sell corporate
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The Jersey Evening Post has reported tonight that: AN emergency delegation is flying to London for talks after news emerged of a dispute with the
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The Laffer curve is based on a simple claim. It is that when tax rates fall tax revenues will increase. That is because tax is
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The Guardian has begun a major series today exploring the secretive world of what it still calls offshore. A decade ago there was almost no
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As the Guardian notes this morning, the British Virgin Islands are a land of sand, sea and secrecy. That’s because the microstate is now the world’s biggest
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This is from 2009, but as important today as it was then: Ivan Pictet, president of the Geneva Financial Centre, has been actively promoting bank
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Offshore corruption exists. The veil of secrecy that it provides – that lead to me describing these places as secrecy jurisdictions – is designed to hide abuse, whether of
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