War on Want issued the follwoing press release today: Tax haven poverty alert The City of London today came under fire for paying out million
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Income shifting: why accountants are protesting too much
I have been reading the reaction on AccountingWEB to the HM Revenue & Customs’ paper on income shifting. As far as I can tell I
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Defining corruption
I was in Oslo this week for a conference on Illicit Financial Flows. There is little I can report – the event took place under
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286 in the USA – and a tax fraudster
Accountancy Age reports: A billionaire – ranked 286th in Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans – accused of hiding millions in foreign bank accounts,
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Everything has changed
Martin Wolf is one of the biggest hitters in the world on economic thinking. He said in this FT column this week that: These are
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Flat taxes do not stack
I was quite pleased to find one of my old articles on flat tax reappear on the web of late. It originally appeared on Society
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Quotes of the day
I’m at a conference. Two great quotes: The golden rule operates. Those with the gold make the rules. And Lichtenstein – a bad real estate
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CIOT domicile debate
I spoke at the Chartered Institute of Tax debate on domicile on Tuesday. Since much of what was discussed was covered by a fairly severe
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Switzerland: $600 billion of tax evaded cash
Marty Sullivan at Tax Analysts is continuing his series on tax evaded cash in the world’s tax havens. This time he has considered Switzerland. His
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