AFP has reported: The German finance ministry threatened on Friday to tax all financial transfers to Liechtenstein unless the Alpine principality relaxed its banking secrecy
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Das Monster ist au?üer Kontrolle
You read that right. ‘The Monster is Out of Control’ is the title of an interview with me in yesterday’s Die Zeit in Germany. This
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A note of thanks: and why Granite remains at the core of the Northern Rock debacle
John McDonnell MP offered me a note of thanks today, in the Guardian when he wrote: I first raised the issue of Northern Rock’s Granite
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Sovereign wealth: secrecy, offshore and a loss of transparency
A year ago the FT reported the strange story of Jersey’s investigation of BAe corruption, where at least they went a bit further than the
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Northern Rock: Their Lordships are confused by Granite’s accounting
I quote this from yesterday’s Hansard report of the House of Lords debate on Granite: Lord Higgins: My Lords, I apologise for persisting, but is
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Singing from the same hymn sheet
The world is beginning to unite behind The Tax Justice Network’s themes: Freer, more open and better integrated financial markets have benefited people and companies
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The OECD agrees: tax havens do encourage tax dodging
The FT has reported that: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said the disclosure about alleged tax evasion by German citizens through trusts based
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Merkel says ‘Liechtenstein encourgaes lawbreaking’
The FT reports that: Angela Merkel, German chancellor, on Wednesday threatened Liechtenstein with isolation in Europe unless the Alpine tax haven moved to ease bank
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So who does manage Granite?
I bumped into Vince Cable this morning (as you do) and suggested a few things he might like to ask during the Northern Rock debate
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