A fascinating article in the FT this morning. It says: Thousands of British investors with up to £3bn stashed in secret Liechtenstein bank accounts will
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Thank goodness for the Lib Dems
I have to say that without the Lib Dem Treasury team the world would be a worse place right now. Yesterday Matthew Oakeshott (a member
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IRS to offer tax amnesty
The New York Times says: The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure to bring in money to the faltering economy, plans to give offshore tax evaders
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A new e-book – The Crash
I have contributed a chapter to a new e-book called The Crash, published today, here. The blurb says: Our economy is in crisis. The future
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They just don’t get it
I’m going to take a liberty a re-post a big part of someone else’s blog — partly because I know the author happily (and with
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What tax havens do – 1 – They handle stolen property
Tax havens handle stolen property. This is not by accident, this is by design. The tale of the creation of Swiss banking secrecy says it
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What tax havens do
There’s been a lot of pro-tax haven comment on this blog over the last day or two. It was sparked by a letter in the
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Toxic assets are hidden assets
There’s an important article in the Wall Street Journal today. It says: The Obama administration has finally come up with a plan to deal with
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Pirates of the Caribbean
What follows comes from The Australian. It was published with the above title. It reflects comments I made to a packed meeting at the Foreign
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