Tax-News.Com says: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it is conducting a review of its lending policies in the light of the latest
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Dow Jones reports via NASDAQ that: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman on Tuesday pressed House lawmakers to enact President Barack Obama’s proposals to fight
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The Task Force gets a web site
The Task Force for Financial Integrity and Economic Development (on whose committee I sit) has got a new web site. It also has a new
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Indian ambassador to Luxembourg says banking secrecy laws attract illicit funds
Jaimini Bhagwati, the Indian Ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg has written in the Indian Business Standard, saying: Anti-money laundering efforts will not succeed
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Imaginative MP expenses are not that different from tax avoidance |
I see I’m not the only person to have noticed this: Nigel Stanley at the TUC has done so as well. As Nigel says: Almost
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India’s politicians agree: tax haven abuse has to end
From the Guardian: India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has made an election campaign pledge to claw back more than $100bn (£68bn) of cash stashed abroad
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The reality of the Overseas Territories
Hansard reported a debate that took place last Thursday on the British Overseas Territories. The following is an edited selection from that debate: Sir John
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More on India
From the Telegraph of India: If the BJP is voted to power, it could come out with an amnesty scheme to force tax dodgers to
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Calling time on the credit card companies
The New York Times has reported: The federal government is widening its investigation of offshore tax evasion to include services sold by the First Data
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