Carousel fraud - the inevitable offshore link
Thursday, September 21st, 2006It seems to be a day when proof of the assertions the Tax Justice Network have made about the offshore world is coming along by
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Thailand - the undeniable evidence that tax havens undermine democracy
Thursday, September 21st, 2006The coup in Thailand provides unfortunate but undeniable evidence that tax havens undermine democracy. The coup has been motivated by the hatred of the corruption
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The Lib Dems and a 50% tax rate
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006The Lib Dems in the UK have voted to drop their plan to increase the top rate of tax to 50% for those earning over
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The IASB could do something amazing tomorrow
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006I have written an article for AccountingWEB today on tomorrow’s IASB meeting at which they will be discussing Publish What You Pay’s submission on segment
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Tax competition - dealing with the myth
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006The FT published a letter on Monday asking for more tax competition. It seems it thinks itself duty bound to do so about once every
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Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Monday, September 18th, 2006Frank Walker, the Chief Minister of Jersey has responded to yesterday’s Observer article by placing comment in the Jersey Evening Post, the only newspaper in
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Jersey - callously indifferent to tax evasion
Monday, September 18th, 2006The difficulty of dealing with the mails that have come out of Jersey in the last few days is knowing where to start. There is
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Jersey - rotten to the core
Sunday, September 17th, 2006The Observer published a story today about an email from Jersey that had been sent to it, seemingly inadvertently. Nick Mathiason at the Observer was
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GSK pay up
Friday, September 15th, 2006Earlier this year I upset Roger Emerson, head of tax at GlaxoSmithKline by the comments I made on page 19 of the report Sustainability published
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