John Christening speaking on this theme to the Bretton Woods Project, last week. (Click link to go to video, embedding does not work) Powered by
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The banks must be forced to stop their tax abuse
People are asking me a simple question at the moment: why are we bailing out the banks when ti seems that the banks have done
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HMRC is looking to prosecute
The Sunday Mirror has reported that: Four celebrities at the heart of a £1billion Inland Revenue probe have been targeted in the biggest-ever inquiry into
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Switzerland can’t have it both ways
Bloomberg has reported that: Switzerland asked the U.S. not to pressure UBS for client data located in the Alpine country as investigators look into whether
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies wants to reward criminal behaviour?
Here’s another classic from the Institute for Fiscal Studies: To discourage investors from hiding their wealth in foreign tax havens, the authors recommend exempting interest
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UBS: did its board breach money laundering rules in the USA (and will they go to prision if they did?)
The FT has reported: Senior executives at UBS, the Swiss bank being investigated by US authorities, knew some of their bankers had acted in a
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Shinawatra has to go back
The Guardian has reported: The former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra skipped bail yesterday and fled to exile in Britain, claiming he could not expect
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The unacceptable face of tax abuse
The FT has reported that: The “widespread abuse” of a £300m ($575m) tax break for some temporary workers is under attack by the Treasury, which
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Jack Blum firing broadsides
Jack Blum is a US attorney who has specialised in tackling offshore abuse for many years. He can fairly claim to have done more to
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