The FT reports: The outlook for Credit Suisse darkened on Friday after the Swiss bank revealed it had been formally placed under investigation by the US
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The OECD peer review process – praise where it is due
I, like many in the tax justice arena, was very dubious when the OECD set up the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax
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Liechtenstein reveals the weakness of the current European Savings Tax Directive
Liechtenstein has just announced the latest sums it has collected under the terms of the European Savings Tax Directive. It was a measly €7.8 million. Working
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Swiss UK tax deal falling apart – thankfully
I have strongly criticised the deal the UK is proposing to enter into with Switzerland so that Swiss banks would collect a flat tax payment from their tax evading
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Big business disputes £25bn in tax – equivalent to a year’s spending cuts
As the Guardian reports: Britain’s largest companies are in dispute with HM Revenue & Customs over paying £25bn worth of tax, according to the latest
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H M Revenue & Customs is letting big business off the hook – according to its own senior staff
ARC – the Association of Revenue and Customs – which is the union for higher grade staff at H M Revenue & Customs has issued
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The next tax evaders to be targetted
A while ago I suggested two groups of tax evaders that HMRC should pay attention to. They were private tutors and users of e-bay. People
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Do you remember when they said the Liechtenstein deal wouldn’t work?
When the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility was first offered by H M Revenue & Customs the tax profession said it wouldn’t rasie anything like the amount of money the
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The US gets tough on tax evasion, unlike the UK
As the FT notes this morning: Banks and foreign governments are mounting an increasingly desperate push against a sweeping US tax law that will force
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