Tackling tax evasion: First Standard Automatic The Economist
See also: Global tax standard attracts 42 countries Financial Times (paywall) – reports cite TJN’s response to the new OECD report on automatic information exchange
Looted in Plain Sight: Kenya and its Multi-Billion Dollar Invoicing Problem Think Africa Press
Tax evasion: Nigeria’s Finance Minister wants Global Partnership to help cut Africa’s losses Premium Times
Nigeria: FIRS rolls out new tax regime for multinational firms Premium Times
British Virgin Islands’ new law threatens press freedom in Hong Kong, analysts warn South China Morning Post
Peru: BVI registered company investigated for illegal gold mining and money laundering Financial Secrecy Media Monitor
Argentina Files Final Supreme Court Appeal in Global Hedge Fund Debt Case Jubilee USA
“Religious Community Joins IMF, Legitimate Investors and Governments in Opposing Exploitative Hedge Fund Behavior”
The 750 Million Dollar Man Foreign Policy
How a Swiss commodities giant used shell companies to make an Angolan general three-quarters of a billion dollars richer.
Bangladesh: National Board of Revenue forms cell to stop capital flight by MNCs New Age
Italy Takes San Marino Off Blacklist Tax-News
Portugal’s Bid to Fight Tax Evasion With Free Cars The Atlantic Cities
Corporate Tax 2014: IBM in aggressive avoidance with Dutch help but India pushes back Finfacts Ireland
Ireland chases €135m in tax avoidance Irish Examiner
UK: Lloyds in £1bn tax dispute with HMRC over Irish losses The Telegraph
OECD’s Gurria Says Companies Must End ‘Duty’ to Avoid Paying Tax Bloomberg Businessweek
VAT reform to boost UK Treasury and hit offshore e-commerce Financial Times (paywall)
“Hundreds of extra millions of value added tax from e-commerce are to flow into the UK exchequer as one of the advantages of operating in Luxembourg is swept away.”
Cayman Premier Interviewed on BBC’s HARDtalk (News clip here)
Premier Alden McLaughlin asserts Cayman is well regulated. Interviewer Stephen Sackur observes that part of being confident of regulation is a commitment to transparency, and points out position of Cayman in TJN’s Financial Secrecy Index
Another day, another billion-dollar legal charge for one of the world’s largest banks Quartz
Should banks now publish ‘scandal-adjusted earnings?’
Feds Appeal Ty Warner Sentence Seeking Jail Time For Billionaire Beanie Babies Creator Huffington Post
Football: Maradona Appeals to EU Over Italian 39 Million Euro Tax Bill NTDTV
F1’s Flavio Briatore to face trial over super-yacht tax evasion The Telegraph
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