According to the Guardian: George Osborne is planning to make it easier to impose jail terms or heavy fines on British residents using offshore tax havens
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There is more on the EU’s work on tax evasion here. The EU estimate of tax evasion and avoidance of €1 trillion is based on
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From Global Witness

I have been campaigning on issues relating to the European Union Savings Tax Directive since 2005, at least.  It was, therefore, pleasing to note that Bloomberg
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The government  has published new regulations this morning called The International Tax Compliance (Crown Dependencies and Gibraltar) Regulations 2014. These  regulations bring into affect the FATCA  style
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As the FT report in an email this morning: Credit Suisse made false claims in US visa applications, conducted business with clients in secret elevators
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Attached to some version so the tax tribunal hearing decision that ruled that Chris Moyles had unsuccessfully sought to avoid paying tax was this diagram
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Many are saying on this blog and elsewhere that the arrangements in the Moyles case were tax evasion, not avoidance. I think what the case
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I gave not redacted full decision in what will now inevitably be called the Chris Moyles tax case. I have read parts. It seems that
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