The Guardian includes the following story this morning: The tax authorities are investigating Lloyds Banking Group after evidence emerged that the bank, kept alive by
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My week in DC is not yet over: I have some meetings still to do, but my on-line week nearly is. I admit it’s too
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The FT notes: “Curious” and “largely cosmetic” were two of the opinions offered by analysts on Thursday as they sought to explain Barclays’ decision to
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The following statement was issued by the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development today following its two day conference at which I spoke:
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New Zealand is one of the world’s lesser known tax havens — and a pernicious one. Take this example: As a non-New Zealand resident bondholder,
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Paul Collier of Oxford is speaking at the Task Force — he chairs its economists panel. One third of Africa’s wealth is outside Africa he
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Staggering — capital flight out of South Africa could be 20% of GDP. That’s massive organised theft. And the big increase is transfer mispricing. That
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September’s ‘Want Work’ figures | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. This is important: There are five and a half million people
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Bloomberg and many others note a proposal from Switzerland this morning (I’m in US time zone). They say: Swiss banks proposed a withholding tax for
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