The coup in Thailand provides unfortunate but undeniable evidence that tax havens undermine democracy. The coup has been motivated by the hatred of the corruption
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Jersey – rotten to the core
The Observer published a story today about an email from Jersey that had been sent to it, seemingly inadvertently. Nick Mathiason at the Observer was
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You couldn’t make it up……
Days after John Christensen raised searching questions of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) because it fails to deal with the high level supply of
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The Revenue’s reaction to TJN position on corruption
The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs reacted to criticisms from the Tax Justice Network made by John Christensen when he spoke to the Royal Geographic
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Tax evasion is corruption
My Tax Justice Network colleague, John Christensen presented an important speech to the Royal Geographic Society on 1 September. This received extensive coverage in the
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Fair value tax accounting
Accountancy has moved to ‘fair value accounting’ since the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards. Let’s put what this means in a nutshell. It used
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In a nutshell
Sen Carl Levin seems to have summarised offshore staggeringly well in his opening comments to the Senate sub-committee on Tuesday: The key features of offshore
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The cost of tax havens
MSNBC has reported on findings to be discussed before a Senate Committee in the USA today. Key amongst the claims are that: Offshore tax havens
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The price of VAT fraud
The Federation of Technological Industries has reported an article by Paul Lashmar in the Independent on Sunday. Unfortunately the IoS charges an absurd £1 an
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