According to the FT this morning: Specialist teams are to be sent in to scrutinise law firms amid mounting concerns they are failing to fulfil
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HMRC’s senior management have done some quite bizarre things over they years since it was created to the point that I presumed that there was
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The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has been published by Transparency International  (TI) since 1995, but has in recent years been subject to quite a lot
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Another day, and more banking scandals. PWC amended a report to US regulators to hide their banking client’s abuse of US sanctions. They have been
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Time and again I am asked to believe that bankers have changed their spots and that we live in a new era of ethical financial
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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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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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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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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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