The Big 4 accountants do know the difference between tax avoidance and tax planning. Take this by Kairo Thuo in the Kenyan Standard. Kairo is
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Redomiciliation is one of the big concerns that the Tax Justice Network drew attention to when submitting evidence to the US Senate on Jersey last
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Good. Any other result would have been a disaster for corporate governance. Now, were were the auditors in all this? They were, inevitably, KPMG.

I have been pondering why Jersey has opted for the route of legitimising what is generally seen as tax evasion within its territory, so providing
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There’s excellent news in the Observer today: Plans have been drawn up for an international taskforce to crack down on tax haven abuses orchestrated in
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Paul Wolfowitz is to join the American Enterprise Institute, according to the FT. Having been drummed out of the World Bank for his unethical practices
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Good

The FT has reported that: The much-trumpeted $5bn China-Africa Development Fund, portrayed by Beijing as economic assistance, will be used to invest exclusively in Chinese
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Much of what was discussed at the conference I attended in Norway last week will not benefit from publicity, and anyway discretion was requested and
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