The European Union Savings Tax Directive has just one goal – which is the beating of tax evasion. Introduced in 2005, the aim was to share
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If HMRC are winning by prosecuting why aren’t they demanding the resources to do more?
As the Guardian reports this morning: The number of criminal prosecutions for tax evasion more than doubled in the UK during the last tax year,
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The US Senate now has its own version of the UK Transparency Bill
Senators Carl Levin and Chuck Grassley have tabled a Bill in the US Senate that is the equivalent of the UK Corporate and Individual Tax and Financial Transparency
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The objectives of the UK Corporate and Individual Tax and Financial Transparency Bill
The UK Corporate and Individual Tax and Financial Transparency Bill which was published yesterday, and about which I have already written here, has the following
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And they call this transparency and information exchange?
International Adviser web site has reported: The number of requests for data HMRC made to Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories on possible tax evaders hit
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What sort of justice system is it in Scotland that the government can’t afford to use it?
There is a fascinating, and worrying, article in The Scotsman this morning, saying: The taxman has denied that there has been a change in its
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Jersey and I are in agreement that they cost the UK at least £500 million a year
I calculated yesterday that Jersey cost the UK at least £500 million a year in lost tax revenue. I had only read the summary report issued by
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Why are we asking the British tax havens to reform themselves when the Foreign Office says we can impose new law on them?
I was rummaging through various links today and came to the UK Foreign Office White Paper on the Overseas Territories published in June 2012. This contains, on page 14, the following interesting statement in
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That £3.2 billion form Switzerland looks like banking on dodgy money – or false accounting
I mentioned in my last blog the claim by the Treasury that £3.2 billion has been received from Switzerland – which is being much trumpeted in the
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