The following press release was issued by Eurodad – an NGO coordinating action by other development NGOs – this morning: After strongly opposing any publication
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Barclays and country-by-country reporting: what we learned
I wrote yesterday about Barclays’ country-by-country report and what could be gleaned from it. The Guardian referred to that work in this morning’s paper. Barclays did
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Barclays: the bank that just loves Luxembourg and Jersey, but not the UK
Barclays has put out its first country-by-country reporting. This is not a statutory report: it has been published in anticipation of the requirement that banks produce
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Labour and tax: the policy battles begin
Labour published the following press release late last night. Given how significant tax will be in the next election, and because this represents an opening
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PWC publicly oppose country-by-country reporting, but have won the job of objectively appraising it for the EU
PWC have been awarded the task of assessing the economic impact of making country-by-country reporting information available to the public as a result of the EU
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Message to Jean-Claude Junker: will you publicly back EU efforts to make business fairer?
This post was written jointly by Gavin Hayman of Global Witness and me and first appeared on the Global Witness blog today: Plenty of column
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For all Cameron’s fine words the UK remains a major obstacle to tax transparency
There is a G7 heads of state meeting in Brussels this week: since last year the organisation has laid Russia aside an reverted to its
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Country-by-country reporting at the OECD this morning
The OECD discussed country-by-country reporting in Paris this morning. I was invited to present but because of my health at the time I was asked to
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The Board Charter needs to go further to be useful
Mid-tier accounting firm Mazars are seeking to make a name for themselves in the world of business ethics. As a result they have, for example,
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