The Guardian reports this morning that: International organised crime has become a $2 trillion (£984bn) behemoth that threatens to pervert democracy around the world and
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Norway to lead study of tax havens
Norway said on Tuesday 11 September that it will lead an international working group investigating the role of secretive tax havens in hiding development aid
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Ignoring corruption is an act of corruption
Legalbrief in South Africa has a report on reaction to the leaking of the Kroll report into corruption by the Moi government in Kenya, covered
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Virtual tax
AccountingWEB had a recent article on how the ‘virtual world’, such as Second Life, is taxed. I believe that the answer is simple: virtual worlds
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Jersey – morally bankrupt
We have to ask ourselves: are we, as a government, morally bankrupt when we are taxing pensioners on a loaf of bread? So said Alan
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What is the BBC doing?
Those who travel out of the UK on a regular basis will know that the BBC offers a commercial service available on cable in many
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Tax competition is theft
Tax-News.com published an article which plumbs the depths, even when measured by its own normal levels of depravity. It notes that: The CIA has recently
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The modertates are on the march against inequality
I thought I’d been writing in the Sunday Times today when I read this: In allowing himself to be bluffed by the super-rich, that they
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Poverty of thinking at the ICAEW
I’d love to believe in the ICAEW Tax Faculty’s project in what they say is ‘thought leadership’ called ‘Towards a Better Tax System’. The only
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