I loved this on Reuters: GENEVA (Reuters) – Increasing demands from tax authorities around the world are challenging traditional private bankers while opening opportunities for
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Tax Justice Focus
The latest edition of Tax Justice Focus – the newsletter of the Tax Justice Network has been published. Available in English and French, it’s a
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Why do people support tax havens?
I was disappointed to read this: Renaissance Group, one of the world’s leading high-opportunity emerging market financial groups, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ngozi
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Osbrone’s domcile numbers won’t work
As I mentioned this morning, George Osborne has talked about domicile and changing the rules. Based on reports at that time I thought has doing
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Why there’s a credit crunch
The FT reports that: The global hedge fund market grew by about a fifth to almost $2,500 billion (£1,250 billion) in the first half of
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Jersey – taking hedge fund regulation to the bottom
“The race to the bottom” is a well known phrase in offshore tax. It is the seemingly inevitable way in which tax havens are used
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The Observer on Special Purpose Vehicles
I asked recently why no one was talking about the risks to ordinary people in the UK from the use of ‘special purpose vehicles’ (SPVs)
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Offshore Banking Business
HMRC revisits offshore – and faces criminal non-cooperation
PWC has reported that HMRC held a meeting with representatives of up to 100 financial institutions on 25 September 2007 in connection with offshore evasion
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