As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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The UK has a constitutional duty to impose direct rule on the BVI to bring its role as a secrecy jurisdiction to an end
The FT has noted that: The acting premier of the British Virgin Islands, Natalio Wheatley, has rejected as “unacceptable” the reimposition of direct rule from
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Corruption in the British Virgin Islands? Whatever next?
The Guardian reports this morning that: The premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested in a sting operation in Miami on charges of
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Sunak: they non-dom hedge fund managers friend
Rowena Mason noted in the Guardian yesterday that Sunak has not made many big statements on tax. Nor has he had a lot to say
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The fight against tax havens was worth it
Back in 2o12 I leaked to the International Tax Review that the UK was finally going to crack down on the absence of tax transparency
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If the Big 4 can quit Russia they can quit Cayman, the BVI, Jersey, the Isle of Man, Bermuda and others too
The FT has reported this morning that: PwC and KPMG have severed ties with their businesses in Russia and Belarus, becoming the first Big Four
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A political commitment to transparency has to be our reaction to this war. Our contribution to ‘never again’, if you like.
I have just posted this thread on Twitter: To pretend that the world is anything like that we lived in two or so weeks ago.
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If the Economic Crimes Bill is to be meaningful it has to make UK professionals responsible for what they are doing
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022 will be debated by the Commons on Monday, with the aim that it passes in a day. The
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The UK has been corrupted and accountants, lawyers and bankers are to blame
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer yesterday: Once upon a time, Britons would have been astonished and appalled to find scandal simultaneously bespoiling their
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