Two things happened as a result of yesterday’s announcement with regard to the relationship between the UK and its tax havens by David Cameron in
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If Cameron is serious about tax abuse then he’s backing the wrong law
According to the Guardian David Cameron is seeking to deflect attention from his own tax affairs by introducing a new law that will make companies
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The EU is planning to make it easier to own offshore shell companies
Just as the Panama papers reveal the mayhem that can be caused by secret shell companies, the European Union is set to relax ownership transparency
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The FCA has to deliver a systemic response to the Panama Papers, not token gesture enquiries
According to the FT: The UK’s financial regulator has given banks and other financial firms until next week to carry out urgent reviews of whether
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Failing to provide the resources HMRC needs to tackle tax abuse is in itself a form of corruption
I wrote this on March 20 this year: The Mail has reported: A clampdown on tax evaders who have salted cash away offshore will fail
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The Panama Papers: what they reveal and what must happen now
The world’s media is full of discussion of the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ this morning. This is the leak of 11.5 million documents form Panamanian law
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The FT’s just noticed that not every Swiss bank account was not quite as its managers wanted it to seem
I couldn’t help but notice this opening paragraph to an article: What is the link between the following political scandals? The Petrobras case in Brazil,
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HMRC should stop lying on behalf of tax cheats
I am grateful to Jolyon Maugham for noticing an issue in one of the many publications put out by HMRC this week; the plethora presumably
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There is some money we just do not need
I noted this in the FT yesterday and did not have time to comment then: The €500 note, beloved by gangsters and Greek savers, is
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