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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The UK Tax Amnesty – here we go again
Last year’s ‘tax amnesty’ in the UK worked: about 45,000 people who had hidden cash in tax havens paid up. Almost 20,000 more declared they
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UBS: their business model was illegal
This report is typical of many tonight: UBS admitted it broke U.S. law in setting up sham offshore tax shelters for wealthy Americans and agreed
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The worst tax haven of all?
Tax-news.com reported late last week that: Niue Premier Sani Lakatana revealed this week that the OECD has expressed concerns over the Government’s decision to retain
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