According to a report from Reuters: Austria will drop its opposition to the routine sharing of bank account data with its European Union partners as
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As the Guardian reports this afternoon: The G7 group of industrialised nations has agreed collective action needs to be taken to target tax avoidance and evasion, the chancellor George Osborne has
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This article by Dan Hind and me is just out on the Guardian website. It is the next in the Tax Justice Network / New Economics Foundation
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The Mail, Guardian and BBC (at least, and in descending order of breathiness) have stories based on what is very obviously a media briefing from
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  The source data has been linked to here, often, but for the record; yes, I did calculate the tax evasion figure.

UBS has put in place new procedures to check that its  customers are declaring tax on their offshore deposits. As Fox News reports: UBS AG (UBS) has begun
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I’ve done an interview for manx.net on multilateral tax agreements. You can see it here and the second part is here. I thought it was
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It’s been announced over night that, as expected, the so called G5 tax agreement – between the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – is
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The FT has noted: Luxembourg is ready to share currently confidential information about multinationals’ bank accounts as part of efforts to shed the Grand Duchy’s
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