John Whiting of the Chartered Institute of Tax has argued with the new policy of naming and shaming tax offenders who have had to make
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Cutting the tax waste
Sol Picciotto is is an emeritus professor at Lancaster University and, like me, a senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network. He had an article
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When you know you’re in trouble
Prem Sikka has noted: The FSA is seeking help from the "big four" accounting firms — Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young — for
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Make it Green
The government announced £1.4 billion of spending on green projects in the Budget. Not enough, we all know, but better than nothing. We also all
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Don’t ask questions on Cayman – or you’ll be arrested
Goodbye to the British OFC?
The Bermuda Royal Gazette (where else could have such a paper?) reports: Offshore financial centres (OFCs) are facing a "Doomsday scenario" as the world’s major
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Why utilities need to be in public ownership
I argued on Sunday that: The sheer folly of thinking that the Royal Mail could be privatised was always madness. It is a utility. These
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Country-by-country reporting: a summary
What has Obama done?
There’s mighty stink in the US corporate world this morning about Barack Obama’s attack on offshore. According to the FT: “It is the wrong idea,
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