Staggering — capital flight out of South Africa could be 20% of GDP. That’s massive organised theft. And the big increase is transfer mispricing. That
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Bloomberg and many others note a proposal from Switzerland this morning (I’m in US time zone). They say: Swiss banks proposed a withholding tax for
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I wrote yesterday about an Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that supported Swiss bank secrecy and encouraged tax competition. In my critique I said:
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The Wall Street Journal has run an Op Ed by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., a member of its editorial board. Published under the title “Does
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I’m told that speaking to journalists on the condition of anonymity, an EU official said August 21 that the EU and the EU member states
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When I wrote my first blog on the report of Nationwide’s problems with the new requirement on UK banks to disclose information to HM Revenue
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Mark Lee of the Tax Advice Network has secured a copy of the letter HM Revenue & Customs has sent to UK based banks regarding
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Thank Heaven for little tax havens?. Good to see those wholly unconnected with Tax Justice Network find the argument that tax havens help keep tax
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Note added 24.8.09: please note the Nationwide not say they do have this data – but that they did also report otherwise to the Times.
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