They're going to love this in Jersey
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011Accountancy Age have just published a report on Mark Field MP and his comments on tax havens, covered here yesterday. What amused me was their
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The UK and its territories dominate money laundering activity
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011From the EU Observer: “EU member states Cyprus and the UK have been named by the World Bank as two of the world’s leading destinations
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Did the world need Mark Field MP's 'contribution' to the tax haven debate?
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011The Telegraph has just published a report on comments made by Mark Field, MP for the City of London and Westminster on the virtues of tax havens.
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The evidence that so called tax information exchange agreements with tax havens don't work is mounting
Thursday, October 27th, 2011At the April 2009 G20 summit in london the big news was the supposed end of tax havens. I know: I was there. And it
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Jersey plans to use its 'rainy day' fund as it slips towards inevitable bankruptcy
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011I have long forecast that as a result of continuing financial deficts arising from Jersy’s decision to impose a 0% tax rate on companies it would eventually
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The loopholes which destroy HMRC’s claim that Swiss tax deal will see a £4-7bn Treasury windfall
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011The following press release was issued by the Tax Justice Network this morning, and I’m proud to be associated with it: UK/Swiss tax deal could see UK lose
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Time for the UK's finance directors to answer the question "Why do you use tax havens?"
Friday, October 21st, 2011Michelle Perry is a financial journalist who I have spoken to on and off for a decade. I note she’s just taken up a new
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Offshore lawyers admit that tax haven claims of transparency are bunkum - as some of us have argued for a long time
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Cayman News Service has blown the lid on one of the biggest lies of recent years about tax havens / secrecy jurisdiction. It’s been claimed since 2009 that tax information
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UK the top secrecy jurisdiction
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Tax Journal has just published a lengthy article on the Tax Justice Network’s Financial Secrecy Index which opens with the following sentence: The United Kingdom would ‘easily’ take
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