KPMG’s new report isn’t all bad (form my point of view). Take this for example on general anti-avoidance provisions, of which I am firmly in
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Blogging works – as the Jyske Bank now know
On 9 November last year I did a long blog on the Jyske Bank, based in Denmark. To cut to the quick, that blog suggested:
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Tax avoidance and development just do not mix (someone please tell Bon0)
I’ve been called by quite a lot of news agencies about the Bono story, which has not hit the New York Times. This is what
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Why do Mastercard allow this?
In researching ‘Closing the Floodgates’ for TJN I came across a number of web sites offering anonymous debit card accounts. Most (but not all) are
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These banks should be ashamed of themselves
I have been reading the opinion of the Special Commissioner who heard the applications from the Revenue to obtain information from four UK high street
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Wal-Mart free-riding the system
The Wall Street Journal did one of its regular, and well researched reports on tax last week. I was so bogged down in writing the
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KPMG plead guilty
Forbes and others have reported on KPMG’s latest tax misfortunes, this time in Texas. KPMG have pleaded guilty to 96 tax offences, accepted the maximum
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The US Tax Gap
The US Senate held a hearing on the Tax Gap earlier this week. Three organisations submitted evidence, of which one was Citizens for Tax Justice,
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Paranoid, or what?
I found the following on the web pages of Mutual Trust: The tax authorities of the major industrial nations have become more sophisticated and their
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