The Guardian perpetuated a popular and entirely incorrect myth about Swiss banking secrecy today. It said this secrecy was introduced in 1934 to protect German
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The FT has reported: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the US mortgage financiers seized by the government, have received subpoenas from federal prosecutors for documents
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The Tories are rotten to their core. Good to see Prem Sikka on this. We worked on the same story without knowing it. Now it’s
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Just as the Tax Justice Network predicted yesterday, Transparency International has brought out its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2008, and Singapore, one of the
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There’s a good article in the Sunday Times today by Rob Watts that notes: Officials at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said they had launched
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The Jersey Evening Post has reported that: Forcing [tax exile] residents to pay more tax would be immoral. So said Treasury Minister Terry le Sueur.
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The Times has reported that HM Revenue & Customs’ legal department is overwhelmed in cases right now, mainly due to the volume of offshore tax
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If you don’t want to pay your wife when divorce comes along then Jersey awaits your call. This is from the Daily Mail: Rich businessmen
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Bloomberg has reported that: Switzerland asked the U.S. not to pressure UBS for client data located in the Alpine country as investigators look into whether
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