Financial Transparency Coalition

Do tax havens contribute to African poverty? Reuters (Blog), April 8, 2011 Money laundering a hard reality in India Business Times (Singapore), April 8, 2011 How to Pay No Taxes Bloomberg Business Week, April 7, 2011 U.S. Seeks HSBC Customers’ Names as Part of Tax Inquiry The New York Times, April 7, 2011 Wanted: A

PARIS (OECD) - Bulgaria should do more to prevent, report, detect and prosecute foreign bribery cases, according to a new report by the OECD Working Group on Bribery.

This report includes a summary of all the presentations from the 2010 Task Force annual conference and concludes with priorities for 2011.

Tax Research UK published a new report this weekend on the administration of the UK’s Register of Companies by Companies House, the agency responsible for it on behalf of the UK government’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The report extended the review to look at the administration of corporation tax returns by H M Revenue & Customs, the UK’s tax agency. In combination these are the two main agencies with responsibility for registering and regulating companies in the UK. The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development funded the study.