I strongly recommend that you read a recent editorial in Cayman Net News, which appears to be edited by extraordinary people. This editorial is remarkably
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KPMG Switzerland – adding up the wrong numbers
I’ve just come across a report from KPMG Switzerland: Given the much-debated issue of taxation in Switzerland, KPMG conducted a survey of all cantonal tax
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KPMG – missing the point on international fraud
In an age when criminals can digitally flash stolen money and intellectual property across the globe in an instant, corporations are often ill-prepared to investigate
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Jersey – spinning for all it’s worth
Jersey is issuing a press release today on the evidence presented by Senator Frank Walker to the Senate Finance Committee Hearings on ‘Stashing Cash Offshore’
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Petrodollars pouring into London
The FR has a piece on petrodollars being invested in the UK. There are serious issues arising from this – not least the fact that
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The Lord Mayor of London – Jersey’s overseas sales agent
The Jersey Evening Post has reported that the Lord Mayor of London has invited representatives of Jersey’s financial services industry to join him on his
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Northern Ireland – a tax haven in the making?
A corespondent sent me the following. I could have edited it, but I wont. It seems a fair summary: Now that the northern Irish have
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Barclays regrets to advise
Barclays ‘Head of Wealth Operations’ has been writing to his customers…. To tell them that running an offshore bank account may not always have been
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Trying teaching ethics when this is what you do
Bloomberg has a story about Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee in the US. All three are, of course,
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