The USA is putting into place the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. As they say of it: The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is
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The Epoch Times (a new one on me, I admit) has reported: Hundreds of billions of dollars could be moved out of Swiss banks as clients
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As Nick Shaxson reports on his Treasure Islands blog, Rico Sorda, a ‘rebel’ Jersey blogger, has noted a statement by UK MP John Hemming saying: “There is a country where there
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I can do little better than quote extensively from the EU’s own press release on the EU Parliament’s decision on country-by-country reporting, which said: Large extractive companies dealing
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This is what Romeny said in his now famous video about the people in the US who don’t pay Federal Income tax: [They] will vote
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International Tax Review interviewed Michael Meacher following his presentation of his General Anti-Tax Avoidance Principle Bill in parliament last week. With their permission I reproduce the article here: ———- On
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The German Bundestag is to hold an official hearing on September 24th on the pros and cons of the Swiss tax agreement. The English version of Mark Morris’
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You can spend forever debating what capitalism is but most definitions would come down to something like “an economic system or model that emphasises the private ownership of the means of production motivated by the aim
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I reproduce the following press release from Global Witness as it brings good news from the EU this morning on progress on country-by-country reporting for the extractive industries: Global Witness welcome today’s European
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