Prof Paul Collier of Oxford University is advising David Cameron on the development aspects of the G8 summit in June. In the Canadian Globe and Mail this weekend he
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There’s an interesting new paper from the Bank for International Settlements out this month, authored by Claudio Borio. Entitled ‘The Great Financial Crisis: setting priorities for new statistics’ the abstract
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The EU Observer has just reported: EU officials will meet Tuesday evening (9 April) for what are expected to be the final talks on radical new rules
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From Paul Collier in Prospect magazine: Corporate opacity is not inadvertent: it is the cumulative achievement of the sustained effort of some of the most
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It looks like Australia has had enough of major corporate tax cheats and the slow progress towards country-by-country reporting that the objections from the Big 4 accountancy firms
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Fifty eight NGOs and campaigning organisations, of which the Tax Justice Network is one, have issued a joint statement on the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project today. The report
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Budget predictions and demands can be boring (read most of those in the Observer if you don’t believe me) but it is an annual requirement
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I have been arguing for country-by-country reporting for a decade. This is what I had to say about it in my ebook ‘Over here and under-taxed’:
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Dave Hartnett made himself one of the most unpopular men in the UK when he headed H M Revenue & Customs. Now he’s working for HSBC.
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