The FT has run an opinion piece this morning in which its author said: HSBC has set aside $700m to cover possible fines for money laundering. Walmart
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UK Uncut hit David Gauke’s propaganda firmly on the head
UK UNcut issued the following press release this morning in response to David Gauke non-sensical propaganda on tobacco smugglers who’ve jumped justice in this country this morning, saying:
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Issuing photos of tax evaders is not enough to stop tax crime. Only people on the ground do that
This photo is in a lot of papers this morning: The picture has been issued by H M Revenue & Customs. These people are alleged to
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Tax evasion using tax havens is organised crime
Deutsche Welle has reported: German Social Democrat leader Sigmar Gabriel has said that tax evasion using havens such as Switzerland constitutes “organized crime in Swiss
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Why can’t Jersey go where the Turks & Caicos can?
The European Union Savings Tax Directive is a vital weapon against tax evasion. That’s it’s only purpose. Introduced in 2005 it requires that all EU states
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Tax evasion aided by global inertia
The BBC have a good article under the above title, here. The discussion is on the Tax Justice Network report – the Price of Offshore Revisited.
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We need to pay tax whistleblowers
As the Telegraph reported this morning: HM Revenue & Customs has been handing out hundreds of thousands of pounds a year in the little-known bounty payments
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I just wish the OECD would stop talking nonsense about offshore
In the same interview with Reuters that Pascal St Aman gave to mark the publication of the Tax Justice Network report “The Price of Offshore”
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Why the OECD are wrong to dismiss the Tax Justice estimate of offshore wealth
I know and, to be honest quite like Pascal St Amans, the head of tax at the OECD. So it was pretty disappointing to see
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