According to the Guardian this morning: Barack Obama is launching a crackdown on international tax evasion in response to recent disclosures in the Panama Papers
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The last thing the world needs now is token gestures on corruption
According to Politics Home: David Cameron plans to propose a world-wide anti-corruption agency to help local law enforcement tackle white collar crime such as tax
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The tax justice view on corruption
I share this blog from the Tax Justice Network, with permission: As Britain prepares to host a global Corruption Summit in London next week, the Panama
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End UK tax havens’s role in global corruption, charities and campaigners urge David Cameron
The chief executives of 17 charities and campaign groups have written to the Prime Minister today, urging him to stop UK tax havens from enabling
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What is corruption?
On May 12 the World Corruption Summit will take place in London. The Tax Justice Network conference, taking place today and tomorrow, is focussing on the
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The UK’s top financial regulator has no idea how much money laundering there is in the UK
The Guardian reported today that: Tracey McDermott, acting chief executive of the FCA, [appearing before the Treasury Select Committee] … was … asked about the scale
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An analysis of the government’s new plan to crack down on corruption
I share this blog with the permission of Robert Palmer of Global Witness, whose own work in the area has been outstanding: Today the government
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Another win against offshore if this isn’t just gesture politics
The Guardian has reported that: Offshore companies buying UK property could be forced to reveal their ultimate owners under plans being considered by ministers to
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The Isle of Man should be hanging its head in shame at the lame excuses for secrecy that it has to offer
The Bishop of the Isle of Man asked an interesting question in the Isle of Man’s parliament – the Tynwald – yesterday (in which he
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