KPMG call for tax transparency
Friday, January 26th, 2007Loughlin 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
Friday, January 26th, 2007The 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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Don't shoot the messenger
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Some 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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Offshore hedging increases risk
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Interesting 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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It's true - we are working on a Code of Conduct for tax
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Word has leaked that the Tax Justice Network is working on a draft Code of Conduct for Taxation. As Finance Director put it: The Tax
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Paranoid, or what?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007I found the following on the web pages of Mutual Trust: The tax authorities of the major industrial nations have become more sophisticated and their
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Tescos to Switzerland?
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007I’ve heard rumour that Tescos.com is going to Switzerland. The reason is simple. It’s being thrown out of Jersey who are trying to clean up
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Jersey - beginning to sink
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007As readers of this blog will be aware, I take an interest in the economic and taxation affairs of Jersey. That’s partly because I advised
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The Economist on flat tax
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007A surprisingly well balanced review of the current state of flat taxes is to be found in last week’s Economist. It concludes: On balance, it
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