Dow Jones reports via NASDAQ that: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman on Tuesday pressed House lawmakers to enact President Barack Obama’s proposals to fight
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Africa’s missing billions | The Argument. For Africa, the era of banking secrecy is far from over argues Khadija Sharife writing in Foreign Policy. As
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According to the Wall Street Journal: Switzerland and Liechtenstein are both actively inviting Germans to dodge taxes at home, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said
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More comment here — by Paul Sagar and well worth reading, covering dimensions I have not touched. As does TJN — who pick up on
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There was another dimension to yesterday’s debate in parliament on tax avoidance and tax evasion. This referred to the Tax Gap. As Vince Cable noted,
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The FT reports: UBS defended itself on Thursday against attempts by the US Internal Revenue Service to extract names of thousands of American customers holding
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The Times reports: Illegal transfers of billions of dollars from India to Western tax havens have become a big issue after two weeks of campaigning
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Business Today in the USA has reported: US tax authorities moved to force payment-card processor First Data to identify merchant clients who set up offshore
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From the Guardian: India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has made an election campaign pledge to claw back more than $100bn (£68bn) of cash stashed abroad
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