May 20th, 2011
Ethiopia’s stolen 8.4 billion dollars and EPRDF
Addis Voice, May 20, 2011
Transfer Pricing: In Governments' Sights
CFOworld, May 19, 2011
Swiss hope to mend tax fence with Italy
Swissinfo.ch, May 19, 2011
Legal tax avoidance: No place to hide
Building.co.uk, May 20, 2011
European funds to pay high price for new US tax law
Citywire, May 20, 2011
Govt sets up elite unit to probe financial crimes
Deccan Herald, May 20, 2011
May 20th, 2011
TJN has
repeatedly reported about Switzerland’s devious strategy of breaking the European Union’s thrust for a functioning system of automatic information exchange. The Swiss Finance Ministry, in conjunction with its banks,
deployed a strategy to fence off the dawning end of financial secrecy, called the “final withholding tax”. It is designed to preserve banking secrecy while buying off noise-making foreign governments through the transfer of a final tax on foreign citizens’ financial account’s income (
details here).
The
German-language Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger reported on spokespersons of the German and Swiss Finance Ministries signalling their willingness to soon...
May 20th, 2011
On October 12th, 2002, a group of terrorists detonated three bombs on the island of Bali in Indonesia, killing 202 and injuring 240 more. The two larger bombs targeted foreign tourists in a nightclub area and the smaller bomb detonated outside the United States consulate and caused minor damage. In 2008, Indonesia executed three of the more than 30 people convicted in connected with the mass murders. Many of these convicts were associated with Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a militant Islamist group in Southeast Asia. The United States believes JI has ties to al-Qaeda and (had) a relationship with Osama...
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May 19th, 2011
Africa: Ripe for reappraisal
Financial Times, May 18, 2011
U.S. and its banks called world's 'biggest tax haven'
Center for Public Integrity, May 18, 2011
Tax Department Vows Crackdown on Black Money
Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2011
Qatar taking firm steps to counter money laundering
Gulf Times, May 18, 2011
Companies unprepared for Bribery Act
The Recruiter, May 19, 2011
Corruption fuels terrorism in Indonesian jails
Sydney Morning Herald, May 19, 2011
