Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that’s precisely the problem the world’s got right now. The question is, what are we going to
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As The Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s drastically diminished aid budget is the “new normal,” the development minister, Jenny Chapman, has said, as she claimed
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Once upon a time, tax havens hid billions from the view of the world’s tax authorities. Then they caused massive disruption. But now, their opacity
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The corruption rollout that is now the characteristic of Trump’s presidency continues today. As the FT has reported: Donald Trump has ordered the Department of
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When I began this blog, if a Treasury minister had enjoyed the benefit of a flat owned by an offshore trust it is very unlikely
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As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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Way back in 2005, John. Christensen and I wrote what was to become the foundational document of tax justice, which it still is in many
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I have long campaigned against freeports. When they were first announced, and the opportunity to meet with the government was offered to those who objected
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