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Transparency International calls on UK to prosecute HSBC
The leading anti-corruption group Transparency International has called on authorities in the United Kingdom to launch a criminal investigation into HSBC in light of recent accusations against the bank. TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #51
No tax please, we’re British Where to start with HSBC and the SwissLeaks scandal? How about with the UK government’s wilful negligence when it comes to dealing with tax evasion? TweetShare
How Corrupt is Britain? New book coming soon
Watch David Whyte discussing the nature of corruption in Britain: Banks accused of rate-fixing and promoting tax evasion. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it’s high time we ask: just exactly how corrupt is Britain? TweetShare
Kenya’s Nation comments on HSBC
From today’s edition of The Nation (hat tip Jonathan Davies in Nairobi). TweetShare
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #50
Blood diamonds in Africa, terrorism in the Middle East, drug cartels in Mexico and tax evasion in Switzerland. HSBC truly is the world’s loco bank. TweetShare
HSBC: the world’s favourite tax evasion shelter
Today’s media is awash with the latest revelations from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about HSBC’s involvement in helping its clients to evade and avoid tax. BBC’s flagship documentary programme, Panorama, will be covering the story tonight. We have previously covered the international dimensions of this story here, here and here, for example. TweetShare
British government can (and should) impose public registries on its overseas territories
Ed Miliband, leader of Britain’s main opposition party, has written to the local governments of the U.K. Overseas Territories (OTs) and Crown dependencies (CDs), advising them that, if elected, a Labour government would require them to publish publicly available registers of the ultimate beneficial owners of all the companies registered in their territories. This is good news, and we hope
Read the full article…PWC – Profits Without Conscience
Accounting multinational PWC has been condemned in a new report by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for providing misleading evidence to Parliament and “promoting tax avoidance on an industrial scale.” The Committee, which has led the way globally in exposing the tax avoidance industry, has accused PWC of not disclosing its role in helping hundreds of multinational companies
Read the full article…BEPS Through the Looking Glass: Where Do We Stand?
Guest blog from TJN Senior Adviser Professor Sol Picciotto, Chair of the civil society BEPS Monitoring Group. TweetShare
Quelle Surprise! billions laundered daily through the City
For those of you who haven’t already read Treasure Islands, this recent headline in The Times might come as a shock. The article itself is behind a pay wall, though the jist is easily http://healthsavy.com captured: the head of Britain’s National Crime Agency, Keith Bristow, has warned that London is a global centre for criminal financial activity. What took him
Read the full article…Luxembourg Leaks: EU Parliament Inquiry Committee a matter of political will
The following press release was posted this afternoon by Sven Giegold MEP: TweetShare
Support a Tax Dodging Bill
In the run-up to the general election in the UK this May, a campaign is underway to persuade ALL candidates from ALL political parties to engage in a race-to-the-top to ensure fair and effective corporate taxation. TweetShare
The Mbeki panel on illicit financial flows: Africa leads the way
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki panel has presented the findings of his panel to the African Union summit, where they were adopted directly into the declaration. Now, we’re biased for all sorts of reasons (more on that below), but this is an historic moment – and probably the most important report yet produced on this issue. TweetShare
The Tax Justice Research Bulletin – 1(1)
January 2015 The Tax Justice Research Bulletin is written by Alex Cobham This is the inaugural Tax Justice Research Bulletin, the first of a monthly series dedicated to tracking the latest developments in policy-relevant research on national and international taxation. This issue looks at a new paper using the longest series of tax data that exist for any one country
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