The IMF have issued a working paper in the last few days with the headline grabbing title ‘Concept of Offshore Financial Centers: In Search of
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The UK tax amnesty
What is to be made of the UK Revenue’s announcement that a tax amnesty is to be offered? I blogged this issue yesterday, not knowing
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Who wants a tax amnesty?
I was curious about why I was getting so much blog traffic over the last few days, so I did a bit of digging. The
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What do you do with $2 billion a year?
Reports have been made of the highest earning hedge fund managers in the US in 2006. You don’t get into the list unless you’re earning
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EU Savings Directive – moves in the right direction
The FT confirms the story I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago – that the EU is looking hard at how to close loopholes
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US moves to close tax loopholes
I’ve reported here, and worked with papers like the Wall Street Journal to expose the behaviour of companies like Barclays Capital that exploit complex tax
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Evasion fiscale et pauvret?©
I don’t often dip into French – with good reason – I’ve never had a lesson in the language in my life (which is quite
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Reform of the EU Savings Directive?
I hear rumour that the EU is looking seriously at revisions to the Savings Directive. These are the changes that they would like to to
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Tesco to Switzerland means its time for the UK to act
Accountancy Age has reported what has been known for some time, that Tesco is moving its Jersey CD and DVD operation to Switzerland. The UK
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