Time to say goodbye to equities
Sunday, July 6th, 2008In 2003 I co-authored a paper with Colin Hines and Alan Simpson MP called People’s Pensions: New Thinking for the 21st Century. It was published
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Father Ted's tax haven
Sunday, July 6th, 2008The Irish have a Tax Commission in progress at present. It’s latest mad idea in a country that already seems to believe that tax abuse
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Are you being complacent Mr Whiting?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008I attended the first hearing of the Treasury Select Committee on Offshore Financial Centres this morning. It was to this committee that we submitted Tax
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Tackling turmoil: creating solutions to the tax haven problem
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008In ‘Tax Havens: Creating Turmoil’ I have sought to illustrate the scale of the tax haven problem, to explain how they really work (an analysis
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Moving to the UK, for the very worst reason of all
Monday, June 30th, 2008The FT has reported that: Baugur, the Icelandic investment group that owns much of the British high street, could move to the UK in the
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Creating Turmoil: why it was written; what it says.
Monday, June 30th, 2008The Treasury Committee (TC) announced on 30 April 2008 that it had “decided to undertake an inquiry into Offshore Financial Centres, as part of its
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Tax Havens Creating Turmoil : The Tax Justice Network submission to the Treasury Select Committee
Monday, June 30th, 2008The Tax Justice Network warmly welcomes the Treasury Select Committee hearings on Offshore Financial Centres (OFCs) that start on 1 July 2008. In anticipation of
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The arrogance that has sunk UBS
Sunday, June 29th, 2008UBS is fighting for its survival, not just in the US, but quite possibly around the world following the exposure of the corporate corruption at
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They're very confused in the Channel Islands
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Deeply confusing and contradictory messages are coming out of the Channel Islands. Guernsey has submitted its evidence to the Treasury Select Committee hearing on Offshore
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