The FT reports: Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from travelling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, because of fears
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New study – Britain and the U.S. may be the dirtiest tax havens
Switzerland’s Le Temps newspaper has just pointed out a remarkable new study by Jason Sharman, an offshore expert (he wrote a book on the OECD
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Appropriate noises on sanctions
From the Wall Street Journal comes this: The Group of 20 industrial and developing economies is expected to decide what sanctions should be placed on
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Barclays – Early Day Motions
Two Early Day Motions now before Parliament: EDM 1169 WIKILEAK AND BARCLAYS BANK 24.03.2009 Mitchell, Austin That this House congratulates Wikileak for publishing documents relating
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Is Lichtenstein suggesting real change?
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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