Luxembourg promotes a particularly abusive form of capitalism that is a threat to us all. This isn’t the quickest Quick Take but the issue is
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City lawyers demand the right to veto tax laws in a direct challenge to democracy
I vividly recall conversations with John Christensen in the early days of the Tax Justice Network when we discussed the threats we were really up against
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We always said Swiss banking was corrupt: now we know it’s true
Over many years I, and colleagues in the Tax Justice Network and elsewhere, said that offshore banking, and Swiss banking in particular, involved corruption. Now, as the
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Big business sides with the fraudsters, criminals and tax evaders
I have already written today on the subject of the government’s proposals to create a register of the beneficial ownership of companies, something I have
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The government has created a new honesty box for corporate fraudsters to disclose their crimes and I guarantee not one will
The government has announced today that: Measures to improve the transparency of who really owns and controls UK companies have been announced by Business Secretary
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Industrial scale corruption in Switzerland
As the FT report in an email this morning: Credit Suisse made false claims in US visa applications, conducted business with clients in secret elevators
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Tax evasion happens because powerful people permit it. Those powerful people are called bankers and accountants
I have already referred to the new report from the OECD, published today, in which that agency says that action to tackle tax evasion is
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Rich countries are failing to tackle tax evasion – according to the OECD
I have long argued that the UK does far too little to tackle tax evasion. It’s good to note that the OECD now agree. As
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The UK’s not capable of holding bankers to account
My friend and co-author Prof Prem Sikka has the following blog on The Conversation website. I share it with permission: Iceland has sent four former
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