UBS has put in place new procedures to check that its customers are declaring tax on their offshore deposits. As Fox News reports: UBS AG (UBS) has begun
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The ugly face of the corporate public sphere
There have been about 9,600 entires on this blog in the last seven years. The vast majority have been written by me. But every now
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Is it really business as usual at HMRC as ministers support its persecution of a whistleblower?
As the Guardian has reported overnight: The minister in charge of tax expressed support for a strategy to undermine evidence from a whistleblower who uncovered the notorious Goldman
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It is convictions that make politics worthwhile
Having just published about conviction politics (in a piece actually written on Friday) I then discovered Ropy Hattersley has been doing the same thing in the Guardian this morning.
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Conviction politics is based on meeting some basic needs for the left and denying them for the right
I have suggested on many occasions that what Labour needs to do if it is to turn limited electoral success in council elections into a
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Tax havens are not tax neutral, Jersey please note
Senator Philip Ozouf, the finance minister of Jersey, has claimed in this interview with Channel TV that Jersey is ‘tax neutral’. His claim is that no tax in Jersey simply allows
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In the one party state of Jersey opposition is not allowed – and nor is a free press
Senator Philip Ozouf, the Jersey Finance Minister, has tellingly revealed the real nature of the political situation in Jersey. In his response on his blog to
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Jersey’s sham trusts: what Philip Ozouf denies and Montfort Tadier rightly said
Much of the fury in Jersey as a result of the comments made by Deputy Montfort Tadier has focussed on the issue of sham trusts.
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Jersey is a tax haven and Jersey Deputy Montfort Tadier is absolutely right to say so
A furious row is breaking out in Jersey. Deputy Montfort Tadier gave an interview to the French newspaper Le Parisien in which he answered their questions as
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