Tax avoidance and development just do not mix (someone please tell Bon0)
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007I’ve been called by quite a lot of news agencies about the Bono story, which has not hit the New York Times. This is what
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Secrecy breeds corruption
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007I’ve been putting up some links to offshore suppliers of corruption services of late. This one is sickening. It’s not difficult to see why the
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Private equity - simply a bunch of free-riders
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007The Guardian did a feature on private equity yesterday. There was a response from the industry today. What was disappointing about the article, and this
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Tax and corruption
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Dennis Howlett and I have an interesting relationship. We are both natural bloggers. Sometimes we agree: sometimes we don’t! Dennis has commented on ‘Closing the
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New webiste on tax and development
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Mike McIntyre is one of the world’s leading thinkers on tax and development. A law professor in the USA, he’s done sterling work with the
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Why do Mastercard allow this?
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007In researching ‘Closing the Floodgates’ for TJN I came across a number of web sites offering anonymous debit card accounts. Most (but not all) are
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Some stories run and run
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007It’s good to see that some stories just run and run. Bono’s use of the Netherlands to minimise his tax bills is one of them.
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These banks should be ashamed of themselves
Monday, February 5th, 2007I have been reading the opinion of the Special Commissioner who heard the applications from the Revenue to obtain information from four UK high street
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Wal-Mart free-riding the system
Monday, February 5th, 2007The Wall Street Journal did one of its regular, and well researched reports on tax last week. I was so bogged down in writing the
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