No, I didn’t say so: a Liechtenstein financial services company did. It said in a PDF made on 12 March: Liechtenstein is a tax haven
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Time to flog off Directline
I’m blogging with the sound of a television in the background. Directline adverts really annoy me right now. This is about a 95% state owned
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Where on earth in the Sunday Times
The new report by the Tax Justice Network, mentioned here yesterday was in the Sunday Times today. They noted: This weekend a new study reveals
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Tax havens are a market failure
On 10 March the FT published an editorial saying (in part): Today’s disastrous outcome is testimony to those leaders’ intellectual failure. Most fundamentally to blame
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Principles should overrule profits
A good letter in the Guardian today from one of my co-authors of this report: Given that the "gagged" Barclays documents are now widely available,
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Where on earth are you?
The Tax Justice Network has published a report with the above title. It is available here. This publication details the findings of research into where
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Tax havens exist because of the hypocrisy of larger states
Great article by John Kay under the above title in the FT today. He makes the point havens only exist because we tolerate them: People
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EU to remove Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg from ‘tax haven’ blacklist
Outright disaster from the EU Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria all blatantly promote tax evasion They hide criminals They are secrecy jurisdictions: places that intentionally create
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Thanks to James from Durham
Commenting on blogs is often considered the preserve of the eccentric. Evidence from this blog would suggest that to be buy and large true. But,
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