As the Financial Times reports this morning: Goldman Sachs has revealed details of about $5bn in investment losses suffered during the crisis for the first
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Barclays, tax havens and how to describe it
Bob Diamond was before the Treasury Select Committee yesterday. Chuka Umunna, MP fr Streatham, was one of those questioning him. And as the Daily Mail
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The New Haven Declaration on financial transparency and country-by-country reporting
A unique coalition of asset management firms and civil society organizations issued a statement today committing to call on governments and relevant multilateral institutions to
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How more transparency in accounting could help deal with tax avoidance
I’ve been called by a several reporters this week wanting to talk to me about UK Uncut. I’m not sure why, because I’ve never met
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The CBI needs to keep calm
Richard Lambert at the CBI had a letter in the FT this week in response to their first rate editorial on tax shortly before Christmas.
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India: a case of onions first, with a little help from country-by-country reporting
It seems right to juxtapose two articles in the FT over the last couple of days. First this: Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, already under
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The FT gives a thumbs up to country-by-country reporting
As the Tax Justice Network notes this morning in a blog from which, with their permission, the following is copied, the Financial Times is running
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The companies can answer on tax – by putting their tax under the glare of publicity
The Observer noted yesterday that: Behind the scenes, those companies that have been targeted, such as Topshop, Vodafone and Boots, are angry and frustrated that
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Not good enough Marks & Spencer
Somewhat to my surprise and to the surprise of UK Uncut Marks & Spencer was targeted by tax protests this weekend, apparently as a consequence
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