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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This morning’s stories on tax haven abuse are actually tales of under-resourcing, inaction and delay at HMRC
The Mail, Guardian and BBC (at least, and in descending order of breathiness) have stories based on what is very obviously a media briefing from
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KPMG under investigation
From the FT this morning: The Financial Reporting Council said on Thursday it was investigating whether KPMG was independent when it audited car dealer Pendragon’s financial
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Three steps to ending tax abuse
This was in the FT this morning: I thought it worth sharing and do so with Oxfam’s permission: Those two plus country-by-country reporting and we’d
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I didn’t know I was Jeffrey Sachs’s fellow traveller
In an Op-ed in the Cariobbean Journal under the title Why Jeffrey Sachs is Wrong on the Cayman Islands it is said that: We defer to Professor
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What’s in the UK’s new General Anti-Avoidance Rule? A podcast
Ernst & Young: an organisation that sees intellectual credibility, public opinion and economic opportunity slipping away from them
Right at the close of the Ernst & Young report on country-by-country reporting they disclose some very telling detail. They say this: This is their only reference
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Why are Ernst & Young wilfully misrepresenting country-by-country reporting? Could it be they’re frightened of the NGO demands?
I said yesterday that I had not had time to read the full Ernst & Young report on country-by-country reporting. Now I have, and it is, in
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