A few days ago a commentator asked on the blog: I am not an economist so hopefully my ignorance can be forgiven. I find myself
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After Panama and Paradise: London next Tuesday
The Panama papers may have outed a rogue company but even the Queen was caught up in the Paradise papers. But we are told that
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Why is HSBC a fit and proper person to hold a banking licence?
The FT has reported this morning that: HSBC has warned that it could pay at least $1.5bn in penalties over alleged tax evasion and money
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Was there corruption at the heart of this government to assist tax evasion?
Jolyon Maugham has posted an important blog this morning. It features a recording made by an old friend of this blog, Richard Allen, who is
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German takes on Amazon cheats: why won’t HM Revenue & Customs?
The SuedDeutsche Zeitung has reported (via Google translate): The tax office in Neukölln has confiscated the stocks and balances of Chinese traders on Amazon.de and
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This Christmas the Jersey way is meeting its match
The Guardian has reported that: The UK will never be granted a free trade agreement with the European Union if it seeks to take advantage
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Jersey’s days as a tax haven are very definitely numbered
The EU’s new tax haven black list published last week, had, as I’ve noted before, an interesting ‘ grey list’ attached to it. Included in the
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Campaign Win: Company beneficial ownership to be required on public record throughout the EU
In 2005 I was co-author of this statement, with John Christensen: It is incredibly difficult to tax people without knowing who they are, what they
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Trump’s tax cuts won’t work because US citizens already take all the tax cuts they want
Trump’s tax reforms – designed to enrich Apple by at least $47 billion – will see large corporate America have its tax rate cut form
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