November 1st, 2010
Op-Ed: Time for Europe to take tax justice seriously
New Europe, October 31, 2010
Call for Tanzanian election winner to abolish unfair tax anomalies
Christian Aid Press Release, October 29, 2010
Top Swiss banker sees tax talks with France and Italy
Reuters, October 31, 2010
Isle of Man tax boost for offshore pensions
Daily Telegraph, November 1, 2010
One-time Forbes list billionaire on trial in Beijing
Global Times, November 1, 2010
Govt monitoring major car importer
Manila Standard Today, November 1, 2010
Prosecutors doubt Vatican money-laundering pledges
Associated Press, October 30,...
October 29th, 2010
My sources tell me that:
The European commission has realised that the DTAs would compromise the EU work on automatic exchange of info. Now the Commission has been in direct touch with Germany and UK regarding this issue.
Most important is that they are concerned about Switzerland now being a conduit for all black money back to the UK / Germany if assets are regularised…
So they should be. With the fundamentalist free market government of the UK (yes, I mean that fundamentalist comment – those in our ...
October 29th, 2010
Google, tax dodger extraordinaire
Washington Post, October 29, 2010
Has Switzerland saved banking secrecy?
Swissinfo.ch, October 29, 2010
UBS whistleblower: U.S. prosecutor obstructed probe-INTERVIEW
Reuters, October 30, 2010
Upcoming G20 summit an unprecedented test of China's diplomatic stance
The Mainichi Daily News, October 29, 2010
EMI Trial Judge Slams Lawyers for Hands
New York Times (Blog), October 29, 2010
Op-Ed: Protest works. Just look at the proof
The Independent, October 29, 2010
Oman, Romania to ink double tax avoidance pact
Times of Oman, October 29, 2010
IRS advised to...
October 28th, 2010
International consensus on almost any policy usually happens step by (excruciating) step. Even reforms that seem obvious in retrospect, like the international laws with respect to bribery and foreign corruption, are initiated by a pioneer (in this case the U.S. in 1977), but take years or even decades for the international community to follow suit. One poignant example is the case of women’s suffrage, which originated in France in the late 1700s, but didn’t take its first big step until the early 1900s, when Australia and Finland granted their citizens universal suffrage. Even with these early...
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