Pierin Vincenz, CEO of the Swiss Raiffeisen bank, is the first Swiss banker to call for automatic tax information exchange. For those who read German there is more here.
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I’ve long argued for a general anti-avoidance principle in UK tax law. A recent briefing on this issue is available as  a PDF here. Barclays leaves me more convinced than ever
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Writing on the ITV web site this morning about Barclays their business correspondent Laura Kuenssberg says: Of course, it makes financial sense for any business to make smart decisions about how,
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I did so for the TUC. I now have a one word response to the criticism. It’s

Bob Diamond of Barclays said this in a BBC lecture last year: Soon after the financial crisis of 2008 I was at a meeting in
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Benefit fraud costs the UK £1.2 billion a year. Yesterday we learned that Barclays tried to claim £500 million of tax back it was not owed.
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The government signed a Code of Conduct with banks on their tax practices in November 2010. Yesterday we learned Barclays has resoundingly ignored it. But why did
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This extraordinary post was first published on the False Economy site – which is always worth reading. It’s incredibly important at a time when the government claims that NHS reforms are not
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