Bloomberg reports: A top UBS AG official was indicted by a U.S. grand jury on one charge of conspiring to help 20,000 wealthy Americans hide
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There has been a great deal of traffic, and a lot of comments on this blog over the last day or two about whether the
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I note a report that says: Isle of Man Treasury Minister Allan Bell has sounded a note of warning about new US president Barack Obama’s
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I’m still shocked by this statistic: About 20,000 U.S. clients have about $18 billion on deposit with UBS in Switzerland, and about 19,000 of the
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From Forbes: A new study based on unpublished Internal Revenue Service data shows the rich are different when it comes to paying taxes: They hide
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In my last blog I mentioned some of the issues those wanting to close tax havens must take into account if this intent is to
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The Sovereign Society is one of those US right wing organisations that promotes tax havens and a very distorted view of what capitalism should be.
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The Guardian has reported: Switzerland’s two biggest banks today turned to the country’s government and sovereign wealth funds to bail them out in a fresh
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Yesterday’s call on this blog to neuter the world’s tax havens has transferred to the Guardian today. As Larry Elliot says: Robert Zoellick, the World
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