People sometimes ask why the Tax Justice Network links tax and corruption quite so closely. This morning the FT reports: Vetco International, the UK oil
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Secrecy breeds corruption
I’ve been putting up some links to offshore suppliers of corruption services of late. This one is sickening. It’s not difficult to see why the
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Why do Mastercard allow this?
In researching ‘Closing the Floodgates’ for TJN I came across a number of web sites offering anonymous debit card accounts. Most (but not all) are
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Developments in Guernsey
The government in Guernsey has resigned. This is not unexpected. As the BBC have reported: The Welsh Audit Office (WAO) was asked to carry out
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Let’s get the defintion of fraud right
KPMG are reporting that: Fraud cases involving sums of more than £100,000 rose to 277 in 2006, from 222 in the previous year, according to
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Send a gunboat
China has realised that tax evasion has a direct cost on ordinary people. The China Daily reported today that: Cutting taxes for low-income earners and
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Offshore hedging increases risk
Interesting to note that the FT reports the following this morning: Man Group’s US brokerage has told a US court that a subsidiary of UBS,
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Paranoid, or what?
I found the following on the web pages of Mutual Trust: The tax authorities of the major industrial nations have become more sophisticated and their
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Tax evasion could be tackled
The attack on the on-line gaming industry is intensifying. Those who made fortunes from creating it are being targeted in the US. Which proves that
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