The Tax Justice Network is beginning new research project. As is asked on the TJN blog: Some jurisdictions license and regulate intermediaries such as legal
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The Isle of Man can’t spot tax evasion when it’s doing it
As some will be aware, there has been considerable correspondence on this site recently from those from tax havens who have tried to justify the
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Have we got our priorities right?
The Public Accounts Committee report on the Hidden Economy highlighted a few unusual statitics. Take this for example: Q: How many people were prosecuted for
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Give HMRC the resources to prosecute
The Guardian has reported: Revenue and Customs has disclosed that 57 barristers have been caught evading tax. Thirty-six reached a private settlement with Revenue and
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HSBC is in the net
The New York Times has reported that US Federal investigators looking at tax abuse by UBS have extended the scope of their investigation to Credit
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Cayman gets the argument wrong
The Cayman News Service carried an article by Tim Ridley, chair of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority in response to that by Angel Gurria in
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Goodbye Swiss banking secrecy
As the FT has reported today: Considering it came less than two months after the last occasion when thousands of UBS shareholders assembled to hear
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Guernsey should expect no special favours
The Guernsey Evening Press has an article of the sort rippling around the press of the secrecy jurisdiction world suggesting they might have a tough
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Remove UBS’s banking licence
Bloomberg reports: A top UBS AG official was indicted by a U.S. grand jury on one charge of conspiring to help 20,000 wealthy Americans hide
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