I’m always bemused by those who claim that companies are run in the interests of their shareholders. They always appear to be optimists who went
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Bono – back in the news – and way off track
Bono is back in the news. He’s been at Davos telling the great and good what to do, but Bloomberg’s have decided to draw attention
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KPMG plead guilty
Forbes and others have reported on KPMG’s latest tax misfortunes, this time in Texas. KPMG have pleaded guilty to 96 tax offences, accepted the maximum
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KPMG call for tax transparency
Loughlin Hickey at KPMG has been out on the stump in Sweden and has called for greater transparency in taxation: I want to highlight signs
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The US Tax Gap
The US Senate held a hearing on the Tax Gap earlier this week. Three organisations submitted evidence, of which one was Citizens for Tax Justice,
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Tax justice at Davos
A backlash against the economic insecurity caused by globalisation is looming in the west unless governments tackle growing inequality by raising taxes on the rich,
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Don’t shoot the messenger
Some interesting feedback on yesterday’s Jersey story. One person thought I was being unfair about the JEP’s website until he looked at it. Then he
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Send a gunboat
China has realised that tax evasion has a direct cost on ordinary people. The China Daily reported today that: Cutting taxes for low-income earners and
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Offshore hedging increases risk
Interesting to note that the FT reports the following this morning: Man Group’s US brokerage has told a US court that a subsidiary of UBS,
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