Associated Press has reported: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed at a summit in this Alpine resort to
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CDC: let’s get serious please
The Department for International Development White Paper says: CDC, which has sought to avoid unco-operative jurisdictions in the past, will in future only commit capital
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Yes please: but anywhere but Oxford
The Department for International Development White Paper says: The UK will consult on a proposal to create a new International Taxation Centre to improve research
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DfID investigating country-by-country reporting
The Department for International Development white paper says: the Government is discussing with its international partners whether other initiatives, including country-by-country reporting of tax payments,
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DfID on tax: what they said
The UK’s Department for International Development published its new White Paper on development today. On tax it said: 2.44 Prosperity is not just a matter
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Surely not Barclays?
It’s been reported: Barclays and Chinese lender Mega International have been censured by Australia’s anti-money laundering body, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac),
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How wrong can you be?
I was sent the following from Standard & Poors, the rating agency, published March 2007: Exposure to the subprime mortgage sector does not threaten the
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Destroying the case that information exchange causes harmtion exchange
Tax Justice Network: The non-perils of information exchange. Nick Shaxson at TJN has written a rigorous rebuttal of the claim that Automatic Information Exchange (AIE)
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Another go at a General Anti-Avoidance Principle
This amendment to the Finance Bill has been tabled for discussion this week by the Lib Dems: ‘(1) If, when determining the liability of a
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