From the Voice of America. Featuring y co-author Ronen Palan. And some very bizarre abuse that flies in the face of all the evidence from
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Will Jersey demand that George Osborne withdraw his claim that there is tax evasion in Jersey?
The Telegraph has noted: The Chancellor has demanded Britain’s offshore tax havens “do more” to crackdown on illegal evasion as he sought to strengthen a
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It’s time for a moral crusade against tax havens
It’s not me saying that today (although I do, often). It’s the Observer, in its editorial. The comment it makes covers so much ground I may
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Osborne wants tax paid in the UK’s tax havens without harming their finance industries, and that’s just not possible
George Osborne gave his mid term report on the Crown Dependencies today, saying: British overseas territories “need to do more” to end tax evasion. Asked about
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Warm words won’t do on tax evasion George, we want action and you’re not delivering
As the Guardian reports this afternoon: The G7 group of industrialised nations has agreed collective action needs to be taken to target tax avoidance and evasion, the chancellor George Osborne has
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Is there anyone who can now bear the risk of banking but the state?
The news that the Cooperative Bank needs more capital is not, as such, news. It’s been known for sometime, but a credit downgrade has highlighted the issue
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The cracked argument for tax havens
This article by Dan Hind and me is just out on the Guardian website. It is the next in the Tax Justice Network / New Economics Foundation
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Country-by-country reporting could help stop the plunder of Africa
Kofi Annan has a pre-G8 op-ed in the New York Times this morning. In it he says: This is an area in which the G-8
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64.2% youth unemployment is a prescription for political turmoil
Austerity really works, doesn’t it? From the Telegraph: Repeated doses of austerity under international bailouts have almost tripled Greece’s jobless rate since its debt crisis
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