In 2011 I published a report researching the disastrous UK Register of Companies. In it I drew attention to the fact that in 2009-10 ovr
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Bermudan double speak
According to the Guardian: The Bermudan premier, Craig Cannonier, said: “I want to clarify that Bermuda is strongly committed to joining the multilateral convention on
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Tax lost offshore could end world poverty, says Oxfam
Oxfam has issued a new report today that suggests: People using tax havens are depriving the world of more than $150 billion (£100bn) in lost
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Taxing the rich – Australian style
A few thoughts on David Cameron’s letter to the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories
I’ve just posted David Cameron’s letter to the G8. I did so because there is a fundamental problem at the core of this letter. Much
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Why is the ACCA willing to use misinformation to oppose measures intended to capture those committing tax crimes?
Tax-News.com published responses to the news that Austria and Luxembourg had blocked progress on the European Union Savings Tax Directive this week, including this one: Commenting
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Where there’s muck, there’s brass plates: on the trail of UK ghost companies
The UK’s investigative and satirical magazine Private Eye has produced a major new investigation into corporate crime, handled via the United Kingdom. The subtitle of
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The UK’s tax gap is down to a couple of pubs and a kebab shop according to HMRC
From the FT: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) stepped up its crackdown on tax evasion on Tuesday, publishing its second list of “deliberate tax defaulters”
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Luxembourg and Austria go out of their way to help tax crime
As the European Voice has noted: EU Finance ministers fail to reach deal on tax avoidance That’s the depressing out come of yesterday’s ECOFIN meeting. As was also noted:
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