The Times reports: Illegal transfers of billions of dollars from India to Western tax havens have become a big issue after two weeks of campaigning
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As the US House Committee on Financial Services has noted: In an important shift in the World Bank’s approach to development, today the Bank announced
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It has struck me, as I think it has others, that the current financial crisis is a challenge to what we perceive ourselves to be
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The European Commission today has adopted a Communication identifying actions that EU Member States should take to promote "good governance" in the tax area (i.e.
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Business Today in the USA has reported: US tax authorities moved to force payment-card processor First Data to identify merchant clients who set up offshore
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Tax Justice Network: Britain’s budget doublethink. Something we’ve just noticed. Much attention has been paid recently to the new 50p tax rate in Britain’s budget,
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The FT notes: Britain’s “too-big-to-fail” banking groups could be forced to hoard billions of pounds of extra capital as an insurance against future financial crises,
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From the Guardian: India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has made an election campaign pledge to claw back more than $100bn (£68bn) of cash stashed abroad
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Tax Justice Network: Gordon Brown’s indecent love affair. Worth reading – as is the John Kay argument that inspired it.