As I mentioned yesterday morning, I was in London yesterday recording a podcast with Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party in England and
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The Tax Justice Network’s State of Tax Justice report for 2021 claims that tax haven abuse by wealthy people costs $171 billion a year. The actual figure is more likely to be $4 billion a year.
The Tax Justice Network has published its 2021 State of Tax Justice Report. Regular readers of this blog will know that I was underwhelmed by
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Deliberately created secrecy is still facilitating financial abuse
The Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index was published this evening. As is said on the FSI site: The Financial Secrecy Index ranks jurisdictions according
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The top 10 secrecy jurisdictions
I have already mentioned the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index. I should add that whilst I pioneered this Index and directed its first iteration
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The Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index 2013
The Tax Justice Network’s 2013 Financial Secrecy Index exposes yawning gap between G20 rhetoric and reality. Issued today, this is their press release on the new FSI (this
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Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index to be used by Council of Europe to criticise Switzerland.
Swissinfo is as busy as ever today, reporting this morning that: Swiss banking secrecy faces renewed attack from members of the Council of Europe on
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OECD should step aside and let UN tackle tax havens say Tax Justice Network and Action Aid
Last week the OECD’s tax boss Pascal Saint-Aman’s made comments in the International Tax Review criticising the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index. These are the published replies from
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UK the top secrecy jurisdiction
Tax Journal has just published a lengthy article on the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index which opens with the following sentence: The United Kingdom would ‘easily’ take
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Cayman feels the heat of Tax Justice
Cayman News Service has reported: Former Cayman Islands Monetary Authority chairman, Tim Ridley, believes that Cayman’s public and private sectors ought to be doing much more to
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