Swiss banking secrecy is being challenged again, this time in the United States.. Quite right too. The argument that it had anything to do with
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Banks in Jersey are responsible for their customer’s tax evasion
One of the commentators on my article in Comment is Free today said: I haven’t paid much attention to the UBS case. Clearly if they
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The next UK tax amnesty: what to expect
Accountancy Age has been digging about the prospect of another UK tax amnesty. The last only really affected the activities of the UK’s five biggest
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The EU Savings Tax Directive – what we get from the tax havens
From Hansard: Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much tax has been repatriated to the UK by each country adopting
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Closing The Tax Gap
Accountancy Age has reported that: The new head of HM Revenue and Customs, Mike Clasper, has made ‘closing the tax gap’ one of four top
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Transfer mispricing costs the developign four times more than total aid flows
It’s been a privilege of mine to work with the team from Global Financial Integrity over the last year or two. Indeed, I’m visiting them
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Invade Cayman?
David Cay Johnston has an article in Mother Jones in the US in which he says (amongst much else): In 1983 just 10 percent of
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Clearing up some misunderstandings on the EU Savings Tax Directive and the Isle of Man
A commentator on this blog has written: Having an interest in the KSF IOM affair, where we invested funds for overseas resident grandchildren (there was
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Do people seek to avoid tax?
Mark Lee is a man for whom I have a lot of respect and time, both professionally and just because he seems to me a
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