The FT has reported that: France and Germany on Tuesday proposed a fresh crackdown on tax havens and offshore financial centres, insisting that banks that
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President Obama’s support for the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act was announced by Treasury Secretary Geithner at a Ways and Means Committee hearing yesterday in
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These are my links for March 3rd: Matthew Bishop and Michael Green: Bashing the benefactors | – I should draw attention to this reply to
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Guernsey claims it needs independent ambassadors to help fight off increasing attacks on the island as a ‘tax haven’. The call came after the TUC
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Mid-Ocean News in Bermuda has published the following, rather long article, quoting me: ONE of the UK’s foremost tax experts has sounded the alarm bells
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These are my links for March 2nd through March 3rd: FT.com / Companies / Banks – RBS awards chairman £1.5m in share options – The
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A summary of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act is available here: 03-02-2009 – Summary of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act : Senator Carl
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KPMG has published a review of the UK tax amnesty (officially the “offshore disclosure facility”) run by HM Revenue & Customs in 2007. They summarise
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I mentioned Global Financial Integrity a blog or two back. They are based in Washington DC partner the Tax Justice Network on out ‘Mapping the
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