There’s been another step forward in  progress towards revising the European Union Savings Tax Directive. As Business Week Reported at the weekend: Austria became the last
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According to the FT: David Cameron on Wednesday urged European leaders to be in the vanguard of a global effort to crack down on aggressive
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According to some survey results it is popularly believed that more than a third of all benefit claims are fraudulent. They aren’t. The best, official, estimate is:
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Geoff Cook at Jersey Finance is stomping his foot and hoping the world will notice. As he says in a recent comment on their web site: EU’s Tax Evasion Drive
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The G20 Finance Ministers’ Communique issued yesterday says (and I have edited it into paragraphs): More needs to be done to address the issues of
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Europolitics published an article with (near enough) the above title yesterday, saying: Momentum was created during the informal EU Ecofin Council on 12-13 April to aim for an agreement
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According to Reuters: Tax dodging causes the European Union to lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European Council said
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The Economic Times of India has reported this morning tat: Under fire for its banking secrecy, Austria hit back at Britain and the United States on Thursday, urging them
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As the Wall Street Journal says this morning: It is still possible to hide a fortune in Europe, even as Switzerland, Luxembourg and some other
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