As the FT notes this morning: Banks and foreign governments are mounting an increasingly desperate push against a sweeping US tax law that will force
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In a piece titled Dirty Money: Why does the international banking system make it so easy for corruption to flourish?, the People & Power series on Al Jazeera reports on
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Southern Cross is not an aberration. Of course people will like to say it’s a bad apple, but it’s not. It is the model for the
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Hilary Clinton made an extraordinary speech to the OECD on aid today. It went far beyond anything I might have expected. The whole thing is here. The
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A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) commissioned report from Global Financial Integrity (GFI) (one of Tax Research LLP’s partners in the Task Force on Financial
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I’ve just noted that Guernsey is planning to introduce laws so that foundations can be established on the island. They like to say this is for the benefit of clients from
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Tax-news.com is proudly reporting that: Guernsey’s Commerce and Employment Department has launched a six-week consultation on the proposed new foundations law. Foundations are, of course,
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The FT reports: Britons with billions of pounds hidden in Switzerland will pay tax at 50 per cent under a groundbreaking deal that will legitimise
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More trouble for the Rev Lord Stephen Green, a UK trade minister and former chair and CEO of HSBC (although that breached ethics rules); this from the Observer, yesterday:
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