I’m not going to get over-excited, I hope, but I think the new UK / Liechtenstein Tax Information Exchange Agreement moves information exchange into a
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Forbes is on the UBS story this morning, quoting me: Switzerland also has some cards to play in multilateral discussions, particularly when it comes to
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The FT reports that HM Revenue & Customs has finally concluded a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Liechtenstein, except it’s a deal like none before.
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A correspondent on this site using the name Tom (which I’m pretty sure is  not his real name) has responded to the blog I wrote
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – US tax battle weighs on UBS . UBS, the Swiss bank embroiled in a US tax evasion probe, posted
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How Common Is Offshore Tax Evasion? – The Wealth Report – WSJ. Now, there is evidence that offshoring was far more common in the past
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I blogged the UK / French Summit comments on tax havens earlier today and mentioned the problems of  the ‘international standard’ for tax havens /
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Tax Justice Network: The non-perils of information exchange. Nick Shaxson at TJN has written a rigorous rebuttal of the claim that Automatic Information Exchange (AIE)
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From this morning’s Independent: Murphy believes that the number of tax havens could dwindle from 40 to about 10 over the next decade if Automatic
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