FT.com / UK – Use of tax havens heightens scrutiny. Companies doing deals in tax havens are facing tougher scrutiny from authorities, according to a
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Action Aid have really swung into action on tax. Their new report, which amongst many other things fully endorses country-by-country reporting, is available here.

Paul Collier of Oxford is speaking at the Task Force — he chairs its economists panel. One third of Africa’s wealth is outside Africa he
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Having spent two, successful days at the World Bank attention shifts a few blocks today to the 2009 Annual Conference of the Task Force on
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At this year’s TUC, Derek Simpson, joint leader of Unite, is calling for no cuts in front line public services, instead, clamp down on tax
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Accounting Standards given tongue-in-cheek reform award . The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has been handed a tongue-in-cheek award from Christian Aid, after winning the
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The Guardian notes: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs chief executive, today stepped into the row over the banking industry’s much criticised bonus culture by acknowledging that
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$280bn bailout for poor need not cost ordinary taxpayers any more money | Oxfam International. Oxfam has joined many others in the NGO community in
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I contributed to a programme broadcast in two parts on the BBC over the last week or so on the profits made by mainstream companies
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