As the FT has noted: It’s normal practice in Parliamentary debates to declare any interests which could be relevant. During a debate on tax avoidance
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This series on what tax havens will have, on occasion, to state the obvious. It is obvious to 99% of the world’s population that tax
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It’s a busy morning for publishing. Christian Aid has a new report out today that reveals in detail by country and trade sector, how much
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I have already blogged a new report describing the shocking ease with which it is possible to create companies in the UK, published in the
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The FT reports: Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from travelling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, because of fears
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Switzerland’s Le Temps newspaper has just pointed out a remarkable new study by Jason Sharman, an offshore expert (he wrote a book on the OECD
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Tax havens handle stolen property. This is not by accident, this is by design. The tale of the creation of Swiss banking secrecy says it
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From the Irish Independent: AIB’s stockbroking arm used black-listed tax havens to circumvent rules preventing it from buying and selling the bank’s shares, the bank’s
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No, I didn’t say so: a Liechtenstein financial services company did. It said in a PDF made on 12 March: Liechtenstein is a tax haven
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