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December 2003

Ex-Parmalat CEO Ordered to Stay in Prison (31 Dec 2003)
Yukos saddled with $3bn tax bill (31 Dec 2003)
Parmalat woes shine fresh spotlight on tax havens (31 Dec 2003)
How Nigeria's Crimes Commission Recovered Abacha Loot From UK (31 Dec 2003)
Russian oil giant Yukos accused of tax fraud (31 Dec 2003)
Small island states strategies pursuing service industry and light manufacturing are successful (30 Dec 2003)
US tax authorities look at executives' pay (30 Dec 2003)
Tax cheating abounds, experts say (30 Dec 2003)
US IRS probes 125 firms marketing tax-avoidance schemes (30 Dec 2003)
U.S. IRS cracking down on misconduct by lawyers and accountants (30 Dec 2003)
US Tax Advisers Face Shelter Requirements (30 Dec 2003)

Read the announcement by the US Treasury Department

Parmalat chief 'misappropriated €800m': report (30 Dec 2003)
Tanzi 'has admitted diverting €500m' (30 Dec 2003)
SEC accuses Parmalat of fraud (30 Dec 2003)
Singapore company unaware of Parmalat Cuba deals (30 Dec 2003)
Tanzi admits taking Parmlat funds (30 Dec 2003)
Corruption, Governance and Globalisation: Lessons from the New Thailand (29 Dec 2003)
Doing offshore shuffle: More cheats using Caribbean cover to beat taxes (29 Dec 2003)
When the Parmalat yogurt hits the fan (29 Dec 2003
PARMALAT: 8.221 BILLION EURO DEBT ACCUMULATED AS OF 2002 (29 Dec 2003
Prosecutors question Parmalat founder (29 Dec 2003)
SEC turned timid as corruption became more complex (29 Dec 2003)
How business and political corruption harms people (28 Dec 2003)
Parmalat Founder Detained in Fraud Case (28 Dec 2003)
Parmalat underscores the ethics of capitalism (28 Dec 2003)
Who Gets Parmalat's Milk And Cookies? (28 Dec 2003)
Doing offshore shuffle: More cheats using Caribbean cover to beat taxes (28 Dec 2003)
Parmalat goes bankrupt as new scandal emerges (28 Dec 2003)
Tax Robbers are everywhere (27 Dec 2003)
Their tax advice? Go cheat: Accounting firms push layoff ploy (27 Dec 2003)
KPMG resigns Hollinger audit (24 Dec 2003)
Crisis worsens for Black's Telegraph empire as auditors quit Hollinger (24 Dec 2003)
U.S. watchdog says about 400,000 use tax dodges (24 Dec 2003)

Read the GAO Report

Corporate Ethics And The Magi’s Law (24 Dec 2003)
What is Parmalat's problem? (24 Dec 2003)
Italy's Parmalat Collapse Felt in U.S. - $1.6 Billion Says Moody's (24 Dec 2003)
UK accountancy firms in the Parmalat scandal (24 Dec 2003)
Parmalat account hole now seen 7 bln euros (24 Dec 2003)
Parmalat Seeks Bankruptcy Protection (24 Dec 2003)
Parmalat embraced offshore accounts, currency swaps and off-balance sheet accounting (24 Dec 2003)
Italian government to bail out Parmalat (24 Dec 2003)
Bank of America claims fraud in Parmalat case (24 Dec 2003)
Bank Claims Fraud in Parmalat Case (24 Dec 2003)
UK Money Laundering Techniques Flawed (24 Dec 2003)
Tax dodging on the rise in US (23 Dec 2003)
Major financial scandals of last two decades (23 Dec 2003)
Consequences of tax avoidance: 2,500 Britons will die unnecessarily this week (23 Dec 2003)
Italy amends bankruptcy laws for Parmalat rescue (23 Dec 2003)
Italy fears Enron-size crisis following disappearance of Cayman Islands assets (23 Dec 2003)
UN seeks new role as international tax referee (need to register) (23 Dec 2003)
Enron banks are back in the Parmalat spotlight (23 Dec 2003)
Conrad Black, the media tycoon behind the Daily Telegraph refuses to testify (23 Dec 2003)
Parmalat founder and two ex-directors investigated (23 Dec 2003)
Parmalat 'falsified its accounts' (23 Dec 2003)
Prosecutor tells of 'false accounting' at Parmalat (23 Dec 2003)
PARMALAT: PRODI, STRICTER INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL LAWS (22 Dec 2003)
Banks' exposure to Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
Crisis-hit Parmalat readies for administration move (22 Dec 2003)
US Legislature must scrap Leveraged Leasing Tax dodge (22 Dec 2003)
£12bn in VAT escapes UK taxman (22 Dec 2003)
Hollinger facing £11 million lawsuit (22 Dec 2003)
Parmalat faces going into administration (22 Dec 2003)
Time running out for Parmalat (22 Dec 2003)
Parmalat's money hole may gape wider (22 Dec 2003)
Parmalat in fraud inquiry (22 Dec 2003)
Parmalat Reveals $4.9Bln Lost Offshore (22 Dec 2003)
Parmalat's missing milk billions (21 Dec 2003)
UK Watchdog Ready to Investigate Italian Food Group's Finances (21 Dec 2003)
PARMALAT, CONTROLS DIDN'T WORK (21 Dec 2003)
UN targets tax-avoiding multinationals (21 Dec 2003)
Cafe Coffee Day to branch out into tax havens (20 Dec 2003)
Corporate irresponsibility not a new dawn (20 Dec 2003)
Russia's oil industry braces for tax evasion scrutiny (20 Dec 2003)
Swiss to Return $88 million Abacha Funds to Nigeria (19 Dec 2003)
LG Card debts exceed assets by $2.7 billion (19 Dec 2003)
UK has no plans to require companies to publish a table showing the annual pre-tax profits and tax paid in each country (19 Dec 2003)
UK government exchanges tax avoidance information with US (19 Dec 2003)
UK government has no proposals to require sellers of tax avoidance to register their schemes (19 Dec 2003)
Despite US probes in accountancy firms selling dubious tax avoidance UK government has provided no information to US authorities (19 Dec 2003)
Parmalat admits that documents purporting to show it had e4bn (£2.8bn) of cash and securities were forgeries (19 Dec 2003)
4bn-euro (£2.8bn; $4.8bn) hole in Parmalat's accounts (19 Dec 2003)
Parmalat seeks breathing space in $400m crisis (19 Dec 2003)
EC seeks boundless tax breaks (18 Dec 2003)
Bahamas Commits To Information Sharing Agreement With United States (18 Dec 2003)
Halliburton oil overcharge blamed on accounting (18 Dec 2003)
UK loses £650 million each year on alcohol fraud (18 Dec 2003)

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LG Group Suspected of Stake Disguise (17 Dec 2003)
Explanation Needed For Eur 6 Billion In Isle Of Man Bank Accounts (17 Dec 2003)
French power giant Electricite de France ( EdF) toldto pay 900m euros to settle outstanding taxes (17 Dec 2003)
OECD welcomes back Nauru (17 Dec 2003)
UK companies avoid taxes so four million people pay the top rate of income tax (17 Dec 2003)
First corporations were looted, now it's the entire country (16 Dec 2003)
Iraq's stolen billions hiddeen in Switzerland and Liechtenstein and elude Washington (15 Dec 2003)
Massive new Irish inflows to Isle of Man banks (15 Dec 2003)
The financial industry's rotten core (14 Dec 2003)
Joe Bloggs jeans owner in a novel tax avoidance scheme ... suing himself (14 Dec 2003)
Tax avoidance means the UK government invests less (14 Dec 2003)
Lights, camera, tax dodges (14 Dec 2003)
Billions of Irish money still held in off-shore accounts (14 Dec 2003)
Calvi bank's $70m traced (14 Dec 2003)
Argentina: Tax Roundup: 2003 Tax Reforms (13 Dec 2003)
Price of tax avoidance and inadequate social investment: sick Britain falls to bottom of health league (13 Dec 2003)
Some U.S. Companies Will Adopt Int'l Accounting Standards (13 Dec 2003)
Parmalat woes could spill over into Australian dairy industry (13 Dec 2003)
Nauru, with one road and 400 banks is struck off a blacklist of renegade tax havens (13 Dec 2003)
KPMG 'obstructed US tax inquiry' (13 Dec 2003)
Multinationals using transfer pricing to dodge taxes (12 Dec 2003)
Kellogg, Brown and Root - a subsidiary of Halliburton overcharged US army by $61 million (12 Dec 2003)
Parmalat's unhappy return (12 Dec 2003)
Citizens turn on tax avoidance (11 Dec 2003)
Opposition Mounts To Jersey 2004 Budget Proposals (11 Dec 2003)
US Justice Department accuses KPMG of Withholding Data in Tax-Shelter Probe (11 Dec 2003)
KPMG moans about UK tax changes - says they are unfair to employees (11 Dec 2003)
U.S. says KPMG is withholding tax-shelter info (11 Dec 2003)
Abbey fined £2.3m for breaches of strict anti-money laundering and other rules (10 Dec 2003)
Corporate Tax Shelters and You (10 Dec 2003)
Canada eliminates 'buy low, donate high' tax shelter (10 Dec 20030
Parmalat has quick acess to just 500 mln euros (10 Dec 2003)
Parmalat could not retrieve $US600 million from a Caymans Island company (10 Dec 2003)
Microsoft Korea fined for tax evasion (9 Dec 2003)
OECD attacks $400 million Lord of the Rings subsidy (9 Dec 2003)
UK loses control of loss off-setting provision to ECJ at a cost £10 billion (8 Dec 2003)
Former Nicaraguan President sentenced over money laundering charges (8 Dec 2003)
EU clears sanctions over tax breaks for US companies located in offshore tax havens (8 Dec 2003)
SEC Begins Pro be into Ernst's Business Pacts (8 Dec 2003)
How KPMG helped wealthy clients to avoid taxes (8 Dec 2003)
Wealthy Suing Accountants Over Rejected Tax Shelters (7 Dec 2003)
U.S. banks extend lead as biggest offshore users-BIS (7 Dec 2003)
Resistance to business regulation paved the way for accounting scandals (7 Dec 2003)
KPMG finds loopholes to favour fat cat pensions (6 Dec 2003)
Distribute wealth from individuals to corporations, says the ICAEW (5 Dec 2003)
Abacha loot: Bagudu agrees to return N40.5b"Faces charges of collaborating with Mohammed (5 Dec 2003)
MAN WHO LAUNDERED $700M CASH FOR THE ABACHAS'' (5 Dec 2003)
US taxman audits executive compensations (5 Dec 2003)
US Treasury clamps down on tax avoidance deals involving foreign currencies and charities (5 Dec 2003)
California. opens Attack on Illegal Tax Shelters (5 Dec 2003)
BAE accused of hiding cash in Swiss banks and Caribbean islands to win deals (5 Dec 2003)
Australia Tax dodge planners to face music (5 Dec 2003)
KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers helped certain Enron officers breach their financial duties (5 Dec 2003)
Leading banks knew of Enron fraud (5 Dec 2003)
Enron report slams KPMG (5 Dec 2003)
IMF asks the Isle of Man to reform Financial Supervision Commission and the Insurance and Pensions Authority (4 Dec 2003)
Californian warns tax cheats to pay now or regret it later (4 Dec 2003)
Desmond rejects Financial Times tax claim s (4 Dec 2003)
Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond cut his corporate tax bill by more than £2m last year by using Jersey (3 Dec 2003)
Opposition Mounts To Jersey 2004 Budget Proposals (3 Dec 2003)
Maryland' offers tax cheating companies a penalty of only 2% insetad of 25% to come clean (3 Dec 2003)
Documents link Metabolife to offshore banks - Kickbacks also paid, affidavit alleges (3 Dec 2003)
Russia says Yukos owes $5 billion in back taxes (3 Dec 2003)
Yukos may have underpaid tax by £3 billion (2 Dec 2003)
UK gives ultimatum to the Cayman Islands to implement the EU Savings Tax Directive (2 Dec 2003)
Group seeks boycott of Toys ``R'' Us over use of tax shelters (1 Dec 2003)
Group Seeks Boycott Of Toys 'R Us Over Tax Loophole (1 Dec 2003)
Tax shelters being abused, charities say (1 Dec 2003)
Complex Cayman deals permit Scottish landlords to avoid taxes (1 Dec 2003)
Britain demands the Cayman Islands implement the EU's savings directive (1 Dec 2003)
Narcotics money laundered in Gibraltar and Ceuta (1 Dec 2003)
New Zealand: Actonz investment scheme 'too good to be true' (1 Dec 2003)
Ernst & Young, KPMG and others to face more lawsuits on abusive tax shelters (1 Dec 2003)
Consequences of poverty and exploitation: 1.6 million people die from indoor smoke (1 Dec 2003)

November 2003

GAO Report: challenges in combating abusive tax schemes (30 Nov 2003)
Harmful Tax Practices: Who Wins who Loses by John Christensen (30 Nov 2003)
New Zealand High Court slams valuation of software by PwC as tax avoidance (30 Nov 2003)
FBI investigation into suspected fraudulent trading by Icap's currency traders (30 Nov 2003)
Bermuda connections of world business leaders (29 Nov 2003)
Is Britain a progressive country? (28 Nov 2003)
Australian Tax hunt on Swiss millions (28 Nov 2003)
Andersen gave birth to new breed of managers (28 Nov 2003)
Swiss government holds on to Abacha loot (28 Nov 2003)
Nigeria recovers $149 million loot from Abacha’s aides (28 Nov 2003)
Jersey Returns $149 Million of Abacha Money (28 Nov 2003)
11 Banks, Brokerages Sanctioned for Collusion in SK Networks Fraud (28 Nov 2003)
Prosecutors raid Yukos subsidiary (27 Nov 2003)
More subsidies please: British Energy wants more money (27 Nov 2003)
British taxpayer underwrites a £4.5 billion BAE arms dea l (27 Nov 2003)
Consequcnes of corporate tax avoidance: 330,000 old people died of cold weather in the UK (27 Nov 2003)
Consequences of corporate tax avoidance: Low earners, women and ethnic minorities lose out on pension in the UK (27 Nov 2003)
Russia To Boost Tax Revenues By Closing Down Offshore Tax Zones (27 Nov 2003)
Ex Morgan Stanley manager charged with fraud (27 Nov 2003)
Security Trust Company shut down by US regulators (27 Nov 2003)
Security Trust Company faces criminal charges (26 Nov 2003)
UK Treasury Expected To Take Greater Role In Tax Policy (26 Nov 2003)
UK Inland Revenue scores victory in Hoechst Litigation (26 Nov 2003)
ROYAL Bank of Scotland role criticised in the Enron debacle (26 Nov 2003)
Improper mutual funds trading at UBS (26 Nov 2003)
The IMF enslavement of Black Africa (26 Nov 2003)
Indonesia jails British executive for non-payment of corporate taxes (25 Nov 2003)
Verizon Communications Inc., with $6-billion pretax earnings paid no taxes (25 Nov 2003)
Miami accountant convicted of devising offshore tax shelters to evade taxes (25 Nov 2003)
Nine out of 10 Florida businesses paid no taxes (25 Nov 2003)
US Accounting Oversight Agency Targets Abusive Tax Shelters (24 Nov 2003)
N.Y. attorney general vs. financial Goliaths (24 Nov 2003)
Shareholder suits allege insider misconduct decimated Safeway (24 Nov 2003)
Samsung Offices raided over suspicion of slush funds (24 Nov 2003)
Deutsche Bank made 56 short-term loans totaling $7.8 billion that were essential to one of the KPMG tax shelters (24 Nov 2003)
West's free-market agenda is unlikely to compensate losers (24 Nov 2003)
Limit the power of corporations and money (24 Nov 2003)
Japanese Oil firm exec held over tax evasion (23 Nov 2003)
LG Card, South Korean conglomerate sought to meet listing requirements by setting up a bogus firm in tax haven (23 Nov 2003)
New Zealand conlomerate Richina chasing sun, and tax haven (23 Nov 2003)
BSkyB to fight £150m a year UK dish tax bill (23 Nov 2003)
Switzerland, Seychelles, British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Panama and Luxembourg implicated in Russian frauds (23 Nov 2003)
Isle of Man link to terrorist funding (23 Nov 2003)
FBI 'Prince' exposes foreign currency scam (23 Nov 2003)
US expands tax avoidance inquiry to Infrastructure-Leasing Tax (22 Nov 2003)
Big Four Firms Feel Heat of Senate Tax Shelter Probe (22 Nov 2003)
US regulators to probe credit counseling companies for false tax claims (21 Nov 2003)
Tyco lawyer tells of mansion he owned, but didn't (21 Nov 2003)
US regulators probe 30 tax exempt credit counseling organizations for tax avoidance (21 Nov 2003)
Time to put an end to the sale of dubious and abusive tax shelter schemes,says US Senator Carl Levin (21 Nov 2003)
Accounting and law professionals were just chasing big dollars, says Senator Norm Coleman (21 Nov 2003)
Towards a Global Geo-Political Economy (21 Nov 2003)
US designates Myanmar and two banks of "primary money laundering concern" (21 Nov 2003)
Financial crime risk is growing, say UK financial institutions (21 Nov 2003)
US prosecutes accountancy firms for anti-social conduct whilst UK indulges them by offering liability limits (20 Nov 2003)
Lieberman assails Bush over proecting accounting firms and corporations (20 Nov 2003)
Companies Deeply Dissatisfied With Accounting, Legal, and Consulting Providers (20 Nov 2003)
Currency trading fraud described as `staggering' (20 Nov 2003)
KPMG's Tax Plans Netted $180 Million in fees but the US Treasury lost $85 billion (20 Nov 2003)
UK Inland Revenue lost up to £2bn in tax credit shambles (20 Nov 2003)
Big firms push tax shelters, panel says (20 Nov 2003)
Transcript of Tax me if you can
Interview with KPMG partner on tax avoidance
Chelsea boss 'broke tax laws' (19 Nov 2003)
Russian Authorities Uncover Tax Violations by Sibneft Oil Company (19 Nov 2003)
KPMG's Tax Plans Netted $180 Million in fees but the US Treasury lost $85 billion (19 Nov 2003)
KPMG's tax plans netted $180M but US goverment lost $85 billion (19 Nov 2003)

Read (PDF file) the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investiogations Report: The Tax Shelter industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals, including Four KPMG case Studies (19 Nov 2003)

Tax shelter industry based not on economic substance but on greed, says Lieberman (19 Nov 2003)
California alone is losing more than $1 billion from tax shelters (19 Nov 2003)
US investigating 118 tax-shelter promoters and issued against 37 promoters (19 Nov 2003)
Jersey pays the price of being a tax haven; no corporation tax but ordinary people will pay £100 million extra (19 Nov 2003)
Accounting Firms Must Reform, says US regulator (18 Nov 2003)
Accountancy firms are the designers, maketeers and engines of tax avoidance (18 Nov 2003)
U.S. Audit Cop Warns Accountants on Tax Shelters (18 Nov 2003)
KPMG signed off on plans that funneled $32 million in improper fees to Hollinger xecutives (18 Nov 2003)
How about responsible taxes? (17 Nov 2003)
UK Inland Revenue clamps down on savers in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and Switzerland (17 Nov 2003)
Some tax discrepancies in the accounts of major UK companies (17 Nov 2003)
UK has one of the lowest corporation tax and employer social security tax rates in the Western world (17 Nov 2003)
Money laundering: How the accountancy bodies protect their members (16 Nov 2003)
New Zealand investors to pay taxman $100m over a sham tax avoidance scheme (17 Nov 2003)
US Senator attacks Mass Marketing of Abusive Tax Shelters (17 Nov 2003)
Tax Shelters at a Glance (17 Nov 2003)
KPMG may be responsible for $85 billion in tax shelters (17 Nov 2003)
KPMG promoted dubious charitable deductions and complicated transactions to generate phony paper losses for clients (17 Nov 2003)
US Senate probes KPMG tax shelters (17 Nov 2003)
Companies 'undermining global fight against HIV ' (16 Nov 2003)
Civil Disobedience and Tax Resistance (16 Nov 2003)
Our Hidden History: Corporations in America (16 Nov 2003)
The CORPORATE DOMINATION of American Culture and Politics (16 Nov 2003)
The Myth of the Self-Regulating Market (16 Nov 2003)
Corporate Watchdogs and the State (16 Nov 2003)
US Crony Capitalism? Corporate Scandals and Reform (15 Nov 2003)
Parmalat and its offshore games (15 Nov 2003)
Parmalat sells off-shore investment fund based in the Cayman islands as auditors raise concerns (15 Nov 2003)
British Virgin Island legislator in money laundering allegations (15 Nov 2003)
Florida losing $500 million a year to corporate tax dodgers (15 Nov 2003)
Were Andersen ideas behind suspected Dynegy scheme? (15 Nov 2003)
Enron's ghost haunts India (15 Nov 2003)
New Zealand courts say that a software purchase scheme was sham and for tax avoidanc e (15 Nov 2003)
UK Watchdog slaps fine on ex-CSFB banker for misleading tax authorities (14 Nov 2003)
Terror funding crackdown 'flawed', say UN (14 Nov 2003)
Tax avoidane schemes used by wealthy and big business (14 Nov 2003)
Tax avoidance abuses and tricks by the leasing industry (14 Nov 2003)
Accountant talks about pressures for tax avoidance (14 Nov 2003)
Ernst & Young rake in £811.6m in the UK (14 Nov 2003)
US Senate hears the role of Ernst & Young in tax avoidance schemes (14 Nov 2003)
Former KPMG man lifts the lid off abusive tax shelters (14 Nov 2003)
Another Levi man claims that the company acted unlawfully (14 Nov 2003)
Former Levi-Strauss man explains that he was fired for refusing to sign misleading tax evidence (14 Nov 2003)
One in three British children live in poverty whilst corporate tax avoidance flourishes (14 Nov 2003)
US Congress in giving mood to drug companies, energy industry (14 Nov 2003)
BAE System's Dirty Dealings (13 Nov 2003)
Forbes lists America's Top Corporate Givers, but silent on tax avoidance and abuses (13 Nov 2003)
It's time to deal with corporate crime (13 Nov 2003)
Trial begins for accountant in offshore-tax scheme (13 Nov 2003)
Bulgaria cuts corporate tax to 19.5% (13 Nov 2003)
Finland reduces corporation tax to 26% (13 Nov 2003)
US Senate hearings to target corporate tax dodging (12 Nov 2003)
New Portuguese Real Estate Tax Hits Out At Offshore Companies (12 Nov 2003)
Tax haven for German ICT firms to disappear (12 Nov 2003)
Tax haven days in Germany's 'Little Monaco' appear to be numbered (12 Nov 2003)
Former Elf boss given five years for $350 million embezzlement (12 Nov 2003)
Tyco devised phony addresses to hide the actual location of luxury executive apartments (12 Nov 2003)
Tyco's former chief executive had a special company account to borrow company money without paying interest (12 Nov 2003)
Paris court to decide fate of former Elf execs in massive corruption case (12 Nov 2003)
Ramadan Reflections on morality of tax avoidance (11 Nov 2003)
International codes and standards are better ways to avert financial scandals (10 Nov 2003)
Financing of insurance captives in Bermuda (9 Nov 2003)
Is the Party Over for Germany’s Little Monaco? (9 Nov 2003)
Three free as UK money laundering trial fails (8 Nov 2003)
Soros's Drug Money Funds a New `Protection Racket for Cheney' (7 Nov 2003)
US Bill seeks overseas tax holiday for major companies (7 Nov 2003)
Transfer Pricing is the Most Important International Tax Issue According to New Ernst & Young Survey (7 Nov 2003)
£500 MILLION BILL FOR BUGGING SCANDAL in Isle of Man? (7 Nov 2003)
How 3M Co., Boeing Co. and Intel Corp avoided US taxes (7 Nov 2003)
The European Union Strikes Back on US tax breaks for exporters (7 Nov 2003)
Gulf investors 'hold £40bn in Jersey offshore haven' (6 Nov 2003)
Dame Shirley's assets frozen by court order (5 Nov 2003)
Brussels mandates sanctions over illegal US tax scheme (5 Nov 2003)
Durex executives charged with fraud (5 Nov 2003)
Ex-HealthSouth CEO accused of fraud (5 Nov 2003)
UK government not keen to measure tax evasion (4 Nov 2003)
UK government to promote EU tax competition and not harmonisation (4 Nov 2003)
How the poor suffer from lack of universal healthcare in USA (4 Nov 2003)
Burma faces money laundering sanctions (4Nov 2003)
UK is a tax haven for non-UK residents (4 Nov 2003) Html version
UK corporate taxes are low but the social misery rate is higher (4 Nov 2003)
Organised tax evasion and offshore financial centres condemned at the FIFTH G-20 FINANCE MINISTERS’ AND CENTRAL BANK GOVERNORS’ MEETING (3 Nov 2003)
How Bank of America avoided $750 million in corporate taxes (3 Nov 2003)
Illinois to make offshore companies ineligible for state tax incentives and contracts (3 Nov 2003)
Nabor Industries ripping-off US citizens by miving to Bermuda (2 Nov 2003)
Australia proposes to jail offshore tax offenders (2 Nov 2003)
A political agenda for the reform of global governance (2 Nov 2003)
HSBC expands its offshore operations in Bermuda (1 Nov 2003)

October 2003

British Tourists Ripped off in New Zealand
New Zealand offers tax breaks for offshore investors (31 Oct 2003)
Swiss banking secrecy attacked (31 Oct 2003)
Block Swiss accounts, says Australian authorities (31 Oct 2003)
US congressional panel votes to end tax breaks for exporters (30 Oct 2003)
Public investment should levy taxes on higher property values, says a think tank (30 Oct 2003)
US offers $128 billion tax cut for corporations (30 Oct 2003)
Babados and the US fail to agree changes to their double taxation treaty (30 Oct 2003)
UK accountants moan about new money laundering laws (30 Oct 2003)
US corporate tax bills decline but no increase in jobs (29 Oct 2003)
Unlike agriculture and manufacturing Bahamas not constrained by WTO rules (29 Oct 2003)
Global Businesses Profit from Congo War (29 Oct 2003)
U.N. Must Address Corporate Role in Congo War (29 Oct 2003)
Halliburton Revenue Rises on Iraq Work and political patronage (29 Oct 2003)
How Accountants Help Defraud Local Governments (29 Oct 2003)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) trends and statistics (28 Oct 2003)
Holes found in U.S. money laundering strategy (28 Oct 2003)
Money laundering, black economy and capital flight in Bangladesh (27 Oct 2003)
Russian billionaire seized in dawn raid (26 Oct 2003)
IRS Targets Creators, Marketers of Abusive Tax Shelters (26 Oct 2003)
Bernstein Litowitz Announces Investigation into Improper Tax Shelters Promoted by Major Accounting Firms and International Banks (24 Oct 2003)
'Intimidation, coercion' said common among 'rock star' U.S. tax break abusers (23 Oct 2003)
U.S. Tax Shelters Benefiting Europeans, Others (22 Oct 2003)
Who Fears Tax Man? Not Rich Cheaters (22 Oct 2003)
US public urged to back bill that targets tax shelters (21 Oct 2003)
US Senate Finance Committee hears stories of how tax shelters are bought and sold (21 Oct 2003)
US Senate Commission Probes Tax Shelters (20 Oct 2003)
Irish Life and Permanent tells offshore customers of Revenue probe (19 Oct 2003)
Autonomy, incentives and patronage: a study of corruption in the Tanzania and Uganda Revenue Authorities (18 Oct 2003)
New Zealand: a tax haven harming its people and other countries (18 Oct 2003)
New Zealand Opposition trumpets flatulence tax u-turn (17 Oct 2003)
OECD Global Forum on Taxation, Ottawa, 14-15 October. Closing Statement by the Co-Chairs (16 Oct 2003)
Irish Inland Revenue chases offshore accounts for €1bn in unpaid tax (17 Oct 2003)
Irish Revenue nets €892m unpaid tax (17 Oct 2003)
Europe must conclusively rule out tax harmonisation, says UK Finance Ministe r (17 Oct 2003)
Ford makes more profit from finance than car making (17 Oct 2003)
General Motors makes more profits from finance than car making (17 Oct 2003)
New laws on financial disclosure planned for the Cook Islands (16 Oct 2003)
Does anyone love accountants - not many (16 Oct 2003)
Two more charged in Enron-Merrill Nigerian deal (16 Oct 2003)
UK to Crack Down on Offshore Tax Evasion (16 Oct 2003)
El Paso Corporation has started nearly 190 new subsidiaries in tax havens (16 Oct 2003)
UK government does little to curb offshore tax avoidance (16 Oct 2003)
Morgan Stanley has 97 new subsidiaries in tax havens (16 Oct 2003)
Haliburton has 50 new subsidiaries in tax havens (16 Oct 2003)
Sarah Lee has added 12 new subsidiaries in tax havens (16 Oct 2003)
Morgan Stanley, IBM and GE fun an ethics centre (15 Oct 2003)
End tax "holidays" for companies that move overseas (15 Oct 2003)
War on Iraq: Cormpanies make a killing (15 Oct 2003)
UK Inland Revenue targets offshore firms for share of property profits (15 Oct 2003)
No contracts should be granted to corporate tax dodgers (with "offshore" tax haven bases) (15 Oct 2003)
Iraq and Corporate Patriotism: It's Time to Stop the War Profiteers (15 Oct 2003)
The Implications of UK Financial Services Industry (the City of London) for the UK’s Entry into the Euro (15 Oct 2003)
US companies have some US$ 500 billion hidden overseas (14 Oct 2003)
Nike and its US$526 million profits offshore (14 Oct 2003)
Hewlett-Packard and its US$14.3 billion offshore (14 Oct 2003)
Intel and its US $6.3 billion in untaxed profits by foreign subsidiaries (14 Oct 2003)
UK Taxman targets stamp duty dodge (14 Oct 2003)
Britain's Inland Revenue appoints 64 'hitmen' to recover billions in unpaid tax secreted in companies and trusts in offshore tax havens (14 Oct 2003)
UK Revenue ‘hitmen’ to target billions hidden in offshore tax havens (14 Oct 2003)
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Deutsche Bank boss faces fraud probe (14 Oct 2003)
French Sleaze Inquiry Targets US Oil Subsidiary (14 Oct 2003)
Halliburton unit in consortium fingered for alleged corruption (14 Oct 2003)
Former Merrill Lynch energy trader faces money laundering charge (14 Oct 2003)
US unions threaten action as BP cuts health bill (14 Oct 2003)
British companies moan about taxes but silent on tax avoidance, flight of capital, public subsidies and public rip-offs (14 Oct 2003)
- Does UK businesses 'pay too much tax '
Swiss say no to US corporate governance law (13 Oct 2003)
New Zealand to subsidise rich foreigners by giving tax break s (13 Oct 2003)
Firm sells innovative approach based on tax-free structures through New Zealand, but silent on social misery created by its trade (13 Oct 2003)
Britain needs to get its international anti-corruption act together (13 Oct 2003)
Iraq 'asset-stripping' warning by Stiglitz (12 Oct 2003)
Ernst & Young global revenue is US$12 billion (12 Oct 2003)
The Murdoch Archipelago (11 Oct 2003)
Clampdown on Scottish tax-haven landowners (11 Oct 2003)
Grant Thornton tax shelters investigated by US government (11 Oct 2003)
Fresh fraud charge in Enron case (10 Oct 2003)
OECD split threatens anti-tax evasion drive (10 Oct 2003)
UK Divorce lawyers must tell of tax dodges (9 Oct 2003)
UK 'Rules avoidance industry' flourishes: £9 billion consultancy market is the biggest in Europe (9 Oct 2003)
Tyco Tax-evasion charge brought attention to lifestyles (9 Oct 2003)
FBI Probe Linked to Enron Collapse? (9 Oct 2003)
Toyota slapped with fine for tax evasion (8 Oct 2003)
TACKLING THE TAX CHEATERS IN NEW ZEALAND (8 Oct 2003)
Swiss banks in Rolls Royce bribery case (8 Oct 2003)
Two Tyco executives accused of taking $600m (£361m) (8 Oct 2003)
Corruption 'rife' in poorest countries but the offshore link is invisible (8 Oct 2003)
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Shipowners under fire for Liberian flags (8 Oct 2003)
U.S. Still Reigns As Top Global Arms Seller (8 Oct 2003)
British tapyers subsidising the arms trade by £6bn (8 Oct 2003)
UK Tax payers funding arms sales (8 Oct 2003)
Canda taking aim at lawyers in money laundering move (8 Oct 2003)
India - Mauritius offshore link (8 Oct 2003)
UK soccer and tax havens (8 Oct 2003)
Jersey property market crisis (7 Oct 2003)
PwC lists World´s Most Respected Companies but is silent on tax avoidance (7 Oct 2003)
Move away from accrual and ''back to cash accounting" for tax breaks (7 Oct 2003)
Money laundering on the rise in Bangladesh (7 Oct 2003)
Offshore financial centres are a danger to the world, says IMF (7 Oct 2003)
EU And OECD Proposals On Harmful Tax Competition - A reponse from Jersey (7 Oct 2003)
Koreans stash billions in Liberia, Monaco and the Marshall Islands to avoid taxes (7 Oct 2003)
Slum growth 'shames the world' (6 Oct 2003)
US Senate panel backs bill to give tax windfall to U.S. companies (6 Oct 2003)
UK School lunches are 'cheap muck' (6 Oct 2003)
- Read the Soil Association Report
Offshore companies own land in Scotland and cheat on taxes (5 Oct 2003)
British Virgin Island registered company enables Scotland’s landowners avoid paying at least £72m in tax (5 Oct 2003)
Rich landowners hide ownership of 4 million acres in offshore tax acres in £72 million a yea tax dodge (5 Oct 2003)
Swiss company enables Scotland’s landowners avoid paying at least £72m in tax (5 Oct 2003)
Brazilian uncovered multi-million dollar tax fraud (5 Oct 2003)
Eight banks to face money laundering charges in France (4 Oct 2003)
SembCorp Logistics fires PwC and KPMG over accounting irregularities (4 Oct 2003)
PwC push for more privatisation in India (4 Oct 2003)
ATTAC Meeting in Jersey: PAST IMPERFECT, FUTURE UNCERTAIN:
THE CHANGING OFFSHORE WORLD (4 Oct 2003)
Dirty money spotlight widens (3 Oct 2003)
New California law to shun business with companies that avoid taxes (3 Oct 2003)
EU warns US of huge fines if illegal tax breaks not scrapped (3 Oct 2003)
German Celebrities Head to Tax Oasis Switzerland (2 Oct 2003)
'Offshoring' Drive for Savings Accelerates (2 Oct 2003)
Dirty Money and its global effects (2 Oct 2003)
Dirty Money: Raymond Baker explores the Free Market's Demimonde (2 Oct 2003)
A 150-to-1 Ratio Is the gap between the rich and the poor (2 Oct 2003)
Expert calls for tax holidays for UK manufacturers (2 Oct 2003)
The Biggest Loophole in the Free Market system (2 Oct 2003)
Northern Ireland Tax evaders asked to own up and avail of amnesty (2 Oct 2003)
Money-laundering task force to spotlight blacklisted states (2 Oct 2003)
Offshore Trusts Under Worldwide Attack (1 Oct 2003)
ACCA seeking to undermine UK moneylaundering laws (1 Oct 2003)
Hedge fund industry is out of control - says the SEC (1 Oct 2003)

Septemb er 2003

Current Trends in the Administration of International Transfer Pricing (30 Sep 2003)
Assessing Offshore Financial Centres: A IMF paper (30 Sep 2003)
Tax Justice Network Newsletter: September 2003
Fattest cats are in companies with largest layoffs, most underfunded pensions, and use tax havens to avoid taxes (30 Sep 2003)
- Read "Executive Excess: CEOs Profit from Layoffs, Pension Shortfalls, and Tax Dodges (30 Sep 2003)
Elderly bear the cost of corporate tax dodging (30 Sep 2003)
Ohio to prevent tax breaks to expatriate corporations (30 Sep 2003)
Income trust funds depriving Canada of millions in tax revenue and distorting the nation's capital market (29 Sep 2003)
Britain leads sale of weapons to poor (28 Oct 2003)
Tuition fees 'keep poor at bay' (28 Sep 2003)
Mobile Phone Firms Criticise Hungary's right to manage its econony (28 Sep 2003)
Globalisation trivialises women (27 Sep 2003)
Jersey finds a loophole in EU measures to prevent tax evasion (26 Sep 2003)
Delaware opposes federal-state program to catch individuals and corporations using illegal tax-avoidance schemes (25 Sept 2003)
Growing gulf between rich and poor (24 Sep 2003)
Emerging Financial Crimes that rob all (24 Sept 2003)
New Zealand warned of tax havens (24 Sep 2003)
FRIENDS of the Earth calls for end to £9bn subsidy to the UK aviation industry (24 Sep 2003)
Money laundering methodologies and international and regional measures (24 Sep 2003)
Jersey Business Confidence Remains In The Doldrums (24 Sep 2003)
UK Plans New Law To Force EU Directive On Cayman Islands (24 Sep 2003)
UK government proposals on tax on cross-border income from savings (24 Sep 2003)
OECD recommendations for improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes (24 Sep 2003)
Tax cutting government fails to renew sewer system (23 Sep 2003)
Firms face 'blood diamond' probe (23 Sep 2003)
Poor nations want IMF reforms (23 Sep 2003)
Statoil chief executive resigns over a probe into possible corruption (23 Sep 2003)
Malta offshore scams (22 Sep 2003)
Cost of globalization: Basic services 'fail world's poor' (21 Sep 2003)
Investment banks face worldwide crackdown (21 Sep 2003)
Modelling Global Money Laundering Flows: $2.85 trillion per year (20 Sep 2003)
Former Mobil Oil executive sentenced to 46 months prison for allegedly evading taxes (19 Sep 2003)
80 million people will die whilst corporations avoid taxes (18 Sep 2003)
Swiss banks attack OECD for cleaning up tax haven s (18 Sep 2003)
US States, IRS to battle 'abusive tax avoidance (18 Sep 2003)'
US corporate income taxes generating smaller percentage of state revenue (17 Sep 2003)
US States Join IRS to Combat Tax Evasion (16 Sep 2003)
Global money laundering estimated at $2.5 trillion a year (16 Sep 2003)
Time to encourage Malaysians to remit foreign income back home (16 Sep 2003)
UK Domicile tax rules set for change (15 Sep 2003)
US City challenges '56 state law that created tax islands (14 Sep 2003)
Corporation tax rates fall as government shift burdens to people (13 Sep 2003)
California legislators OK measure against firms that relocate offshore (13 Sep 2003)
Tax Treaties Close the Net On Evader s (13 Sep 2003)
Car tax evasion costing UK £200m (13 Sep 2003)
Statoil falls under bribery cloud (12 Sep 2003)
FEAR AND LOATHING IN GLOBALIZATION (12 Sep 2003)
Attacking corporate crime (12 Sep 2003)
The Fallacy of Bush's Corporate U.S.A. Inc. (12 Sep 2003)
UK Tax payers funding arms sales (11 Sep 2003)
BAE accused of arms deal slush fund (12 Sep 2003)
Closing tax loopholes can create jobs (11 Sep 2003)
Slavery and Globalization (11 Sept 2003)
Tax planner charged with fraud and money laundering (11 Sep 2003)
Malaysian Lawyers, accountants face death penalty for aiding terrorists (11 Sep 2003)
First Enron ex-official is jailed (11 Sep 2003)
The big tax getaway in Russia (11 Sep 2003)
Responsive Regulation: International Perspectives on Taxation (10 Sep 2003)
Guarding the Oil Underworld (9 Sep 2003)
Globalization and its Discontents: After Prague We've Come a Long Way Baby (9 Sep 2003)
Globalization and its discontents: A review of Stiglitz (9 Sep 2003)
Tax evasion robs Slovenia of billions of crowns (8 Sep 2003)
How Arthur Andersen sponsored research on trailing the dirty money (5 Sep 2003)
US states want more time to look into improper tax-avoidance schemes by MCI (4 Sep 2003)
UK government proposals for reform of corporation tax (2 Sep 2003)
US States should tax scofflaw corporations (1 Sep 2003)

August 2003

US Court of Appeal ruled that BDO Seidman must turn over names of clients who purchased certain tax shelters from the firm (31 Aug 2003)
New Zealnd Tax avoidance case ends in controversy (30 Aug 2003)
The Tax Cheaters Lobby (29 Aug 2003)
Taxman moves in on football clubs (28 Aug 2003)
Vivendi's $1.5 Billion Tax Hangover (26 Aug 2003)
Comeback, Keynes. All is forgiven (24 Aug 2003)
It's time to close offshore loophole for corporations (22 Aug 2003)
SEC to go after directors who ignore fraud (22 Aug 2003)
Australia and UK sign new business tax deal (22 Aug 2003)
N.Y. corporate scandals cost state $13 billion (22 Aug 2003)
Death tax traps 50% more UK citizens (21 Aug 2003)
Corporate accounting, corruption scandals cost NY $2.9B (21 Aug 2003)
Corporate scandals costing taxpayers billions (21 Aug 2003)
'Dirty List' Exposes Companies Supporting Regime in Burma (20 Aug 2003)
Australia Black economy now $100bn (19 Aug 2003)
Australia Tax Office targets rich, medium-size business and superfunds (19 Aug 2003)
WorldCom Mess Taints KPMG: KPMG may regret ever offering tax advice (18 Aug 2003)
Irish Republic's tax dodge squeeze nets 650m Euros (15 Aug 2003)
Canada sues tobacco companies for tax evasion in alleged smuggling scheme (14 Aug 2003)
WorldCom Employed Elaborate Tax Strategy: $19 bn involved (14 Aug 2003)
WorldCom plan may have avoided state taxes (14 Aug 2003)
WorldCom workers knew of "pseudo" phone numbers (13 Aug 2003)
Tax Shelters Killing State Revenue (13 Aug 2003)
Merrill Lynch rocked by $43m embezzlement claim (13 Aug 2003)
Jersey To Face 'Inevitable' Tax Hikes (13 Sep 2003)
From the California Society of Enrolled Agents: California Looks to Shut Down Abusive Tax Shelters (13 Aug 2003)
Canada Probes Ex-Merrill Lynch Official (13 Aug 2003)
Ex-Merrill Energy Trader Probed for Money Laundering (12 Aug 2003)
Russian mafia worms way into Mexican drug cartels (11 Aug 2003)
Ernst & Young moving its tax return preparation business to India (11 Aug 2003)
How Chelski tycoon scores offshore (10 Aug 2003)
SEC Investigation of Baker Hughes Expands (9 Aug 2003)
Baker Hughes case is growing (9 Aug 2003)
Imperial Tobacco accounts for half of the UK's £2.8 billion in lost tax revenue (8 Nov 2003)
UK regulator fines Northern Bank, for breaches of money laundering rules (8 Aug 2003)
Can you be conned? Doctors tell their money-losing tales of woe (8 Aug 2003)
California Targets Abusive Tax Shelters With New Round of Audits (7 Aug 2003)
The political economy of illegal bunkering in Nigeria (6 Aug 2003)
Swiss court finds former Pakistani Prime Minister guilty of money laundering (5 Aug 2003)
California Targets Abusive Tax Shelters with New Round of Audits (5 Aug 2003)
Former President of Digital Consulting, Inc. Charged With Tax Evasion (5 Aug 2003)
Tax Shelters Under Attack (3 Aug 2003)
UK Non-doms are a taxing dilemma (3 Aug 2003)

July 2003

US$200 billion of illegal funds laundered annually in the Asia-Pacific region (31 Jul 2003)
Restoring confidence after the bubble: lawmakers are addressing only one side of the problem (31 Jul 2003)
Indian Chartered Accountants want a level playing field (30 Jul 2003)
US tax havens amnesty fails to deliver (30 Jul 2003)
Isle of Man joins the European Savings Directive (30 Jul 2003)
One in 10 U.S. tech jobs may move offshore (30 Jul 2003)
Corporate tax cheaters wreak havoc on neediest (29 Jul 2003)
The thin line of taxation legality (29 Jul 2003)
UK court ground a money laundering case (29 Jul 2003)
UK discussuin on 'domicile' rules change (28 Jul 2003)
Offshore links to the death of Roberto Calvi (28 Jul 2003)
Inland Revenue Matters: Offshore tax avoidance (28 Jul 2003)
Tax avoidance cripples Venezuelan economy (27 Jul 2003)
US Court Orders Accountant to Name Shelter Investors (25 Jul 2003)
UK Inland Revenue under attack for Offshore deals (24 Jul 2003)
Halliburton: Crime Commission Declares Two Wanted (24 Jul 2003)
Embattled Ernst & Young rings in big changes (23 Jul 2003)
COOK ISLANDS SET UP FINANCE INDUSTRY WATCHDOG (23 Jul 2003)
UK Inland Revenue criticised for incompetence (23 Jul 2003)
Malta told to phase out "harmful" tax breaks (23 Jul 2003)
Swiss banks freeze Liberia funds (23 Jul 2003)
Wanted: An ethical accounting policy (22 Jul 2003)
Argentina losing $7 billion to $9 billion in taxes evaded each year (21 Jul 2003)
Use auditors to hunt unpaid taxes (21 Jul 2003)
Tax rules for foreigners in UK under review (21 Jul 2003)
Bolivia Plans Crackdown on Corporate Tax Evasion (21 Jul 2003)
Offshore links of Billionaire Roman Abramovich (20 Jul 2003)
South African amnesty exposes the fiction of offshore trusts (20 Jul 2003)
The big smoke screen: Tobacco pact falls billions short of what US states were expecting (20 Jul 2003)
Ernst & Young Clients Face IRS Audits Over Tax Shelters (19 Jul 2003)
UK Inland Revenue loses test case - may need to return millions to companies (18 Jul 2003)
Tax havens are being tackled at different levels (18 Jul 2003)
India to target share transactions for profit-shopping (18 Jul 2003)
Cyprus and Seychelles implicated in Serbian money laundering (17 Jul 2003)
US cracking down on tax loopholes: Investors no longer can use Common Trust Funds to cut bills (17 Jul 2003)
US States say shelters cost up to $12 billion in taxes (17 Jul 2003)
Communities Reject Coca-Cola in India (17 Jul 2003)
US regulators plan crackdown on tax shelters (16 Jul 2003)
UK government criticised by a parliamentary committee for failure to curb offshore tax avoidance (16 Jul 2003)
Murdoch faces India blackout (16 Jul 2003)
British income inequalities and tax evasion: Worse than under Thatcher (15 Oct 2003)
California to share information with IRS on tax shelter promoters (15 Jul 2003)
The enforcer, the holiday isle scam and the money trail to terror gangs (13 Jul 2003)
KPMG's wrong call on tax havens (13 Jul 2003)
Ernst & Young steered clients to tax shelter firm (12 Jul 2003)
Long-Term Capital's Meriwether Takes on IRS With Long-Shot Bet (11 Jul 2003)
Management control and tax aspects of transfer pricing in multinational enterprises, a longitudinal case study (11 Jul 2003)
U.S. targets big names in fighting abuse of tax shelters (10 Jul 2003)
GLOBALIZATION, RISK, AND FINANCIAL CRISES: LONG-TERMCAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF ARBITRAGE (10 Jul 2003)
The Failure of Long-Term Capital Management: A Preliminary Assessment By Chairman, House Banking and Financial Services Committee Before House of Representatives (10 Jul 2003)
Long-Term Capital Management: The dangers of leverage (10 Jul 2003)
Trillion Dollar Bet and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (10 Jul 2003)
Too Big to Fail?: Long-Term Capital Management and the Federal Reserve (10 Jul 2003)
Myron Scholes defends fund's use of tax shelter (10 Jul 2003)
Nobel prize winner questioned on tax shelter profits (10 Jul 2003)
Barbados comes under money laundering scrutiny (9 Jul 2003)
Most British firms 'have been financial crime victims' , but quietism on corporate crimes (9 Jul 2003)
Globalisation and economic exploitation (9 Jul 2003)
New lords of Africa: money, oild and arms (9 Jul 2003)
World poverty fight 'in danger' (8 Jul 2003)
Switzerland pledges cooperation in combating money laundering (8 Jul 2003)
Honda founder's son held for tax evasion (8 Jul 2003)
Guernsey-based company, Swan Management involved in sale of Chelsea Footbal Club (8 Jul 2003)
Ernst & Young Sold 'Sprint' Tax Strategy to Many (8 Jul 2003)
Ernst sold controversial shelter to dozens of people (8 Jul 2003)
West African Cotton farmers' poverty laid at door of US (8 Jul 2003)
African leaders call for further cuts to EU farm subsidies (8 Jul 2003)
Long-Term Capital Management and the havoc in markets (6 Jul 2003)
The public has been let down by an auditing profession, says Ernst & Young partner (5 Jul 2003)
World Bank poverty drive a failure, says Save the Children UK (3 Jul 2003)
Connex rail can't "demonstrate whether certain transactions with group companies are on an arm's length terms" (3 Jul 2003)
Bermuda's EU tax exemption may not last long (3 Jul 2003)
Ernst & Young to pays $15 million to settle tax dodges investigation (3 Jul 2003)
UK government orders a review over tax shambles (3 Jul 2003)
Investment liberalisation and international trade (2 July2003)
Mind the gap: How performance gaps between domestic and foreign firms matter for regional policy (2 Jul 2003)
Simplfiying corporate structures can save £1.2 billion in costs (2 Jul 2003)
US Taxman Goes After Stock Option Shelters (2 Jul 2003)
US will not allow executives to defer income taxes by selling options to third party (2 Jul 2003)
Warning to Ernst & Young: Violating tax shelter rules shouldn’t be a negotiable offense (2 Jul 2003)
Crackdown on Tax Shelters: US Govt. targeting stock-option ploy (2 Jul 2003)
Britain's Anti-laundering teams swamped (2 Jul 2003)
UK's anti-money laundering regime was "falling short of achieving its aims" (2 Jul 2003)
Time Britain's tax system entered the real world (1 Jul 2003)
Tesco heiress Dame Shirley's fortune 'hidden offshore' (1 Jul 2003)

June 2003

Fancy buying a plastic bucket for $972.98 to dodge corporate taxes (30 Jun 2003)
IBM & Tax (30 Jun 2003)
Bring home the bacon or put more in the piggy (30 Jun 2003)
Russians seek new tax havens as Cyprus cleans up (30 Jun 2003)
Nato aide accused of $200m money-laundering scam (29 Jun 2003)
Corporate tax avoidance is costing us all billions (29 Jun 2003)
Jersey locals in revolt over bid to keep offshore status (29 Jun 2003)
BAE Systems paid secret commissions to obtain a contract to sell Hawk jets to South Africa (30 Jun 2003).
Two Australian petrol wholesale companies fined $52 million for tax evasion (27 Jun 2003)
EU Rules That Belgian Tax Breaks For US Firms Are Illegal (26 Jun 2003)
UK Lawyers arrested in drug money operation (26 Jun 2003)
US authorities Work to Uncover Abusive Tax Shelters (26 Jun 2003)
Cook Island remains on OECD tax haven list (26 Jun 2003)
World watchdog cracks down on hot money, terror cash (26 Jun 2003)
Former subsidiaries of Jersey based Orb in receivership (26 Jun 2003)
Cook Islands Remain On FATF Blacklist (25 Jun 2003)
Deloitte Touche Bermuda Facing Fraud Claims In United States (25 Jun 2003)
250 Bank of Ireland Customers Disclose Jersey Accounts To Tax Commission (25 Jun 2003)
Perils of offshore registered ships (25 Jun 2003)
Nigerian president calls for Halliburton tax bribes inquiry (25 Jun 2003)
KPMG manager sues over reassignment for alleged illegal tax sheler (25 Jun 2003)
KPMG's E-Mails Pointed to Concerns Over Tax Shelters (25 Jun 2003)
Seattle businessman has accuses KPMG LLP of peddling a sham" tax-shelter scheme (25 Jun 2003)
NZ marks time on money laundering measures (25 Jun 2003)
Kyoto 'Flatulence Tax' Plan Causes Turbulence in New Zealand (24 Jun 2003)
US government acts against a law firm, seeking the names of beneficiaries of abusive shelters (24 Jun 2003)
How Corporate Tax Evaders Get Away with Billions (23 Jun 2003)
KPMG sued for sham tax shelters (23 Jun 2003)
Chicago law frim summoed for the promotion of illegal tax shelters (22 Jun 2003)
Poverty of Human Rights in Jersey
IBM 'paid UK Revenue £700m over tax evasion' (22 Jun 2003)
Bangladesh probes sugar import tax evasion (21 Jun 2003)
High taxes will bring back days of renting suits, accountants warn (21 Jun 2003)
FATF releases new money laundering guidelines (21 Jun 2003)
US IRS Seeks Names of Wealthy Clients Who Used Tax Shelters (20 Jun 2003)
Fantastic and Fabricated Finances: How multinationals rob the wealth of nations (19 Jun 2003)
Nauru ends offshore banking (18 Jun 2003)
Australia targets accountants and lawyers for tax avoidance (18 Jun 2003)
Canadians stash $44.6-billion in tax havens, especially Bermuda (18 Jun 2003)
Tackling Oil company corruption (18 Jun 2003)
Cooks trying to improve money laundering record (18 Jun 2003)
Lawyers find riches in companies' dirty laundry (17 Jun 2003)
Elf trial hit by lawyer's revelations (17 Jun 2003)
Ex Peregrine sales executive pleads guilty securities fraud, as authorities spotlighted deals with KPMG Consulting that falsely inflated Peregrine's revenue by more than $30 million (17 Jun 2003).
Ex-Mobil Oil executive admits guiltt to tax evasion and goes to prison for more than 3 years (17 Jun 2003)
NGOs in the US firing line - the rise of new McCarthyism (17 Jun 2003)
Mapeley, the Bermudan offshore company made £23 million tax free profit from the UK Inland Revenue (15 Jun 2003)
UK Tax chief on the rack for Mapeley sale (15 Jun 2003)
Derivatives Equation that generated huge wealth - and great financial scandals (14 Jun 2003)
Former senior Mobil Oil Corp. executive pleads guilty to evading taxes (13 Jun 2003)
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man will levy a new tax on interest payments for EU holders of offshore bank accounts (12 Jun 2003)
US bans some offshore Internet gambling (11 Jun 2003)
Mounting KPMG Tax Suits Reveal Vast Marketing Push (10 Jun 2003)
U.K. Money Laundering Worth More Than $30 Bln a Year (9 Jun 2003)
$550bn of Australia goes offshore (9 Jun 2003)
Lure of tax havens proving irresistible for Canadians (9 Jun 2003)
Guernsey nationalises the local airline in £6m deal (9 Jun 2003)
Tax evasion in China, stockmarket fraud to be probed (9 Jun 2003)
Tax and Corporate Responsibility - need to join the website (9 Jun 2003)
WorldCom 'was out of control' (9 June 2003)
£10m UK money laundering ring smashed (8 Jun 2003)
Time To Slay Militant Business; Corporate Power Is Out Of Control (8 Jun 2003)
First America and now France discovers, corruption is at the center of every capitalist state (8 Jun 2003)
Shanghai hit by tax and accounting scandal (7 Jun 2003)
US Tax-cut package leaves low-income families behind (6 Jun 2003)
US Tax cuts for the rich: Where's The Outrage? (6 Jun 2003)
Tax revenues decline for the Isle of Man (6 Jun 2003)
ImClone Systems will take a $30.3 million charge for taxes withheld by executives who exercised stock options (6 Jun 2003)
Time to crack down on bad corporate citizens, says US Senator (5 Jun 2003)
Orb offloads Izodia at discount (4 Jun 2003)
BUSH TAX POLICY FAVORS ROBBER BARONS (6 Jun 2003)
The Enronization Of Public Policy (4 Jun 2003)
Ex-tax managers for Levi claim jean-maker set up illegal tax shelters in Brazil (3 Jun 2003)
UK Tribunal rules against high street tax avoidance scheme (3 Jun 2003)
Offshore companies cost U.S. taxpayers $1 billion (3 Jun 2003)
UK Retailers lose VAT battle (3 Jun 2003)
Jersey snubs the euro (1 Jun 2003)
OFFSHORE BANKING: USA'S SECRET THREAT (1 Jun 2003)

UK tax burden 'growing' (1 Jun 2003)
One in 10 top UK firms in tax probe (1 Jun 2003)

May 2003

War on Terrorism: U.S. seizing millions of ill-gotten dollars (30 May 2003)
Bhs chief makes offer to buy Harrods (29 May 2003)
It's time to boot businesses out of offshore tax havens (29 May 2003)
Despite strong support Ingersoll-Rand holders vote against moving back to U.S .(29 May 2003)
Tax Evasion and Corruption in Tax Administration (28 May 2003)
US Defence Secretary queried on offshore banking reform (28 May 2003)
Tax co-ordination; the importance of institutions (28 May 2003)
Some Criticisms of the Tobin tax (28 May 2003)
GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: AFTER PRAGUE We’ve Come a Long Way Baby (28 May 2003)
E&Y partners in beauty-spot dash to avoid taxes (27 May 20030
Offshore Cos. Make $1B in Deals With U.S. (26 May 2003)
Fallen Banker Courted in Jail Cell (23 May 2003)
Crime and Corruption (23 May 2003)
Virgin boss buys an island (17 May 2003)
How the UK failed to control transactions with tax havens (15 May 2003)
The Capitalist Threat (14 May 2003)
Race, Poverty & Globalization (14 May 2003)
When Rivers Flow Upstream: International Capital Movements in the Era of Globalization (14 May 2003)
How the rich countries help the wealthy (13 May 2003)
The End of the End of History (12 May 2003)
How the UK tax authorities hound little people (10 May 2003)
Sacrifice is For Suckers” How corporations are using Offshore tax havens to avoid paying taxes (8 May 2003)
Swiss join oil bribery inquiry (7 May 2003)
Berlusconi, the man who would be king, faces final courtroom embarrassment (6 May 2003)
Bangladesh 'to end tax dodging ' (1 May 2003)

April 2003

French origins and international growth of ATTAC (29 Apr 2003)
RACKING ARGENTINA (29 Apr 2003)
Offshore Banking: The Secret Threat to America (28 Apr 2003)
Fresh blow for Orb as Thistle sale turns sour (27 Apr 2003)
UK Taxman targets 'fine wine' payment deals (22 Apr 2003)
The domicile and residence game (21 Apr 2003)
Money Laundering and Tax Havens: the Hidden Billions and Development (3MB pdf file 17 Apr 2003)
Socialism in reverse: poor pay highers taxes than the rich (15 Apr 2003)
Information on Federal Contractors That Are Incorporated Offshore (pdf file 15 Apr 2003)
The Divergence Between Book and Tax Income of US companies (pdf file 15 Apr 2003)
How Corporations Are Using Offshore Tax Havens to Avoid Paying Taxes (15 Apr 2003)
Here's the great new tax dodge - cycle to work (13 Apr 2003)
The Jersey-based Orb in fraud probe (13 Apr 2003)
UK government to close some tax loopholes (10 Apr 2003)
Reviewing the Residence and Domicile rules as they affect the taxation of individuals: A UK government discussion paper (10 Apr 2003)
Tax Evasion, Corruption, and the Remuneration of Heterogeneous Ispectors (10 Apr 2003)
Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from "Missing Imports" in China (pdf file 9 Apr 2003)
Fight corporate offshore tax dodges (9 Apr 2003)
Littlewoods clan avoids £60m UK tax bil by going offshore (8 Apr 2003)
Ex-Mobil Exec Pleads Not Guilty to Tax Evasion Charges (7 Apr 2003)
Deutsche Bank fined 59.3 million Euros for facilitating tax evasion (7 Apr 2003)
UK Inland Revenue plugs tax loophole for wealthy (7 Apr 2003)
Guernsey to go ahead on EU tax package move (7 Apr 2003)
Raising revenues for social development: A case for land tax (6 Apr 2003)
World-Class Tax Evasion (5 Apr 2003)
Microsoft Australia Uses Offshore Sales Offices To Reduce Tax Bill (4 Apr 2003)
Channel Islands get ready to concede EU demands (1 Apr 2003)

March 2003

Money laundering remains a major concern to the People's Republic of China (31 Mar 2003)
Tax Amnesties and Income Tax Compliance: The Case of Spain (31 Mar 2003)
Offshore Banking: The Secret Threat to America (31 Mar 2003)
HealthSouth Inquiry Looks for Accounts Held Offshore (31 Mar 2003)
The tangeled web of ORB and its offshore links (30 Mar 2003)
Harrods boss to quit Britain for Switzerland (29 Mar 2003)
UK silence on transfer pricing policies (26 Mar 2003)
What price democracy: Give us tax concessions or we are off, say businessmen (26 Mar 2003)
US Senate reverses Bush tax cuts (26 Mar 2003)
Cable & Wireless free from its £1.5bn liability for only £380 million (26 Mar 2003)
Tax justice network launched to halt lost tax (25 Mar 2003)
US IRS launches offensive to collect unpai d taxes and nets $32 billion (25 Mar 2003)
Tax dodgers to be named and shamed (23 Mar 2003)
UK Revenue targets Irish accounts held by individuals but does nothing for corporate tax avoiders (22 Mar 2003)
UK watchdog to investigate the sale of government buildings to a tax haven company (21 Mar 2003)
IMF admits policy failures (19 Mar 2003)
White-collar crime in the US (19 Mar 2003)
Curtain up on final act of French bribery saga (18 Mar 2003)
Britain may face corporate exodus after EU ruling on exit penalty (18 Mar 2003)
EU cross-border tax discrimination hit by court opinion (17 Mar 2003)
Greedy UK farmers blamed for £5 billion tax subsidy (14 Mar 2003)
Minister won't sanction research into informal economy (14 Mar 2003)
Tax Havens: Are You With Us Or Against Us? (12 Mar 2003)
UK government is ignorant of the extent of tax evasion (12 Mar 2003)
UK government will not ask companies to publish details of tax avoidance scams (11 Mar 2003)
UK government will not investigate offshore scams used by companies (11 Mar 2003)
Britain's inefective money laundering law enforcement exposed (11 Mar 2003)
UK Inland Revenue may face claim over lease-back contract (10 Mar 2003)
Fraudsters using offshore acocunts to cheat the UK tax authorities (10 Mar 2003)
Drug gangs go to London's diamond dealers for cash (9 Mar 2003)
South Africa tax amnesty brings in billions (8 Mar 2003)
International Accounting Standards as a possible starting point for a common EU tax base (7 Mar 2003)
Enron offshore scams fill another 2,000 pages (7 Mar 2003)
"Home State Taxation" pilot scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU (7 Mar 2003)
The Five Wars of Globalization (4 Mar 2003)
US Pressure Forces Nauru To End Offshore Banking (4 Mar 2003)
US Treasury Finalizes Anti-Tax Shelter Regulations (3 Mar 2003)
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (2 Mar 2003)

February 2003

UK Watchdog asks Inland Revenue to do more to tackle tax fraud (28 Feb 2003)
Corporate Tax Evasion on an Enormous Scale (28 Feb 2003)
Calling Offshore escapers to account (28 Feb 2003)
EU finalises $4bn riposte to illegal US tax breaks (27 Feb 2003)
The tax gap – private report, public concerns (24 Feb 2003)
US IRS Updates List of 'Dirty Dozen' Scams For 2003 (Feb 2003)
Airlines receive subsidies and tax breaks of £9bn a year (23 Feb 2003)
India proposes foreign exchange 'Tobin' tax (23 Feb 2003)
US Treasury may have lost more than $85 billion due to illegal tax shelters (19 Feb 2003)
Tax me if you can (19 Feb 2003)
UK Government subsidising oil and gas industry’s profits to the tune of £40 million (17 Feb 2003)
Special tax breaks in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands constitute illegal State aid, says EU (17 Feb 2003)
Berlusconi and Labour Party links to offshore deals (16 Feb 2003)
The warnings the UK Inland Revenue did not heed (16 Feb 2003)
UK government fury at tax chief blunders (16 Feb 2003)
New Zealand being advertised as a bolt-hole for wealthy (15 Feb 2003)
Enron's tax cheating highlights the need for reform (15 Feb 2003)
Australian Tax Office eyes dodgy Vanuatu tax schemes (15 Feb 2003)
European Commission halts probes into tax avoidance (14 Feb 2003)
Enron study fuels US crackdown on corporate tax fraud (14 Feb 2003)
Enron's tax scams revealed (14 Feb 2003)
Scandal of Enron's tax evasion (14 Feb 2003)
Not just a few bad guys at Enron (14 Feb 2003)
Powering up the shredders at Enron (14 Feb 2003)
Wheels within wheels at Enron (14 Feb 2003)
Life with the Lay people: The Enron connection (14 Feb 2003)
Arthur Andersen, Deloitte & Touche, Chase Manhattan, Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank helped structure 12 tax avoidance schemes for Enron (14 Feb 2003)
Enron paid no US federal income tax between 1996 and 1999 (14 Feb 2003)
Enron 'bribed tax officials' (14 Feb 2003)
The day of reckoning has come for those who peddle abusive tax products - says a US Senattor (13 Feb 2003)
Enron Aggressively Bent Tax Code - Report (13 Feb 2003)
- Read the US Congress Report on Enron Tax Evasion (13 Feb 2003)
Enron bribed tax officials : US Senate Committee on Finance (13 Feb 2003)
Suggested Capital Flight and Corruption Treaty (13 Feb 2003)
UK Accountants Urge Clients To Act Quickly On Trust Loophole (13 Feb 2003)
UK MPs slam UK Inland Revenue's tax haven deal (13 Feb 2003)
Accountants Rock The SEC: Gimme Tax Shelter: Fcus on Ernst & Young and Sprint (12 Feb 2003)
Combating Corruption in the UK Private Sector (12 Feb 2003)
UK Inland Revenue slammed over tax haven deal (12 Feb 2003)
- Read the UK Parliament's Report "The Handling of the Joint Inland Revenue/Customs and Excise Steps PFI Project" (12 Feb 2003)
Former Tyco bosses in tax shelter claim (12 Feb 2003)
Sprint Tax Scandal Is Worrying Ernst & Young Staffers (12 Feb 2003)
Please tax us, say (some) of America's richest (12 Feb 2003)
German Christian Democrats vow to fight on against £14m corruption fine (12 Feb 2003)
Curb the corporate tax dodgers to finance social investment (10 Feb 2003)
Ernst & Young and KPMG are being sued by clients for selling tax shelters (10 Feb 2003)
Wealthy Suing Accountants Over Rejected Tax Shelters (7 Feb 2003)
Sprint executives used tax shelters devised by auditors Ernst & Young (6 Feb 2003)
Ernst & Young selling numerous tax shelters to avoid taxes (6 Feb 2003)
Europe is losing control of company taxation (5 Feb 2003)
Cigarette-tax evasion aided terror, U.S. says (5 Feb 2003)
UK tax avoidance industry scrutinised (5 Feb 2003)
Transcript of BBC Radio programme on 'tax avoidance' (4 Feb 2003)
Serco accused of 'shameful scam' in moving staff offshore (2 Feb 2003)
UK Taxman is 'soft on big companies' (2 Feb 2003)

January 2003

UK Buliding Societies make it easier to offshore accounts (31 Jan 2003)
Heads set to roll at the cantonal bank of Vaud (BCV) following the discovery of accounting irregularities (31 Jan 2003)
Dirty Money and its global effects (31 Jan 2003)
Jersey Tax Experts Warn Over Zero Rate Corporate Tax Plans (31 Jan 2003)
UK Revenue to turn whistleblower under DTI plans (30 Jan 2003)
Tax co ncessions to companies are like Stealing Money From Kids (29 Jan 2003)
Cashing in on a paradise island: the case of Vanuatu (28 Jan 2003)
UK Institutions Take Control Of Izodia From Jersey Orb Directors (28 Jan 2003)
1.6 Million Russian Companies Fail To Register For Tax (27 Jan 2003)
Argentina and Flight of capital (25 Jan 2003)
Argentina and flight of capital - Part Two (25 Jan 2003)
The Brazilian Swindle and The Larger International Monetary Problem (24 Jan 2003)
Jersey Government group attacked by a politician for operating in secret (24 Jan 2003)
Venezuela suspends currency dealing (23 Jan 2003)
Another defat for the UK tax authorities : Pirelli case remoulds tyred tax system (23 Jan 2003)
UK graduate students face 'higher tax than millionaires' (23 Jan 2003)
Major U K tax fraud case quashed (23 Jan 2003)
After 10 years, Europe finally agrees on withholding tax compromise (22 Jan 2003)
Ireland launches new investigation into Deposit Income Retention Tax (22 Jan 2003)
EU deal on tax dodging leaves loopholes (22 Jan 2003)
KPMG : poachers and gamekeepers in Bermuda (22 Jan 2003)
Enron Probes Now Focus on Tax Deals (21 Jan 2003)
EU tackles tax evasion (21 Jan 2003)
Nauru Off-shore tax scheme nets guilty plea (21 Jan 2003)
Company directors to recover £100m in share option tax (21 Jan 2003)
UK court judgement hands millions in tax rebates to company executives (20 Jan 2003)
Company chiefs set to recover £100m in tax as Revenue quits fight (20 Jan 2003)
MI6 role in Cayman investigation exposed as Austin Powers farce (18 Jan 2003)
Bungled MI6 plot led to Cayman trial collapse (18 Jan 2003)
THE ECONOMICS OF OFFSHORE: WHO WINS, WHO LOSES? (18 Jan 2003)
Transparency test in EU Taxes (17 Jan 2003)
US Treasury lost more than $175 billion on transfer pricing scams (17 Jan 2003)
Trade unions join fight against offshore corporations (17 Jan 2003)
Jersey agriculture and tourism continues to decline (17 Jan 2003)
UK's dwindling haul from tax dodge war (16 Jan 2003)
Speculators attack Hungary's currency (16 Jan 2003)
TwoUK men found guilty of £1m pension tax fraud (16 Jan 2003)
UK Corporation Tax Receipts are declining (15 Jan 2003)
The Art Newspaper surveys past great tax dodges of the art world (15 Jan 2003)
The US Div idend Tax Break: Myths and Taxing Logic (15 Jan 2003)
Amnesty for Offshore Tax Evasion Ploys (14 Jan 2003)
Americans Hit by $200 Billion Corporate Abuse Tax (14 Jan 2003)
Tax Dodgers Apply Here (14 Jan 2003)
The ships that died of shame in Tonga (14 Jan 2003)
The finance of illicit resource extraction: Tax avoidance and money laundering (13 Jan 2003)
Jersey hints at joining EU (13 Jan 2003)
UK Revenue take from biggest tax evaders drops by £600m (12 Jan 2003)
Dwindling haul from UK tax dodge war (12 Jan 2003)
SFO probes Izodia's 'lost' £4m (12 Jan 2003)
Big business still dodging the tax issue (12 Jan 2003)
How GATS could affect your life (10 Jan 2003)
Revenue chairman launches moral fight on tax fraud (10 Jan 2003)
Imperial Tobacco accused of failing to co-operate with UK customs officials to prevent smuggling (10 Jan 2003)
UK losing £3.5 billion tax on cigarret smuggling (10 Jan 2003)
Driving the GATS Juggernaut (10 Jan 2003)
Hellish outlook for tax havens (9 Jan 2003)
UK government hot air on tax avoidance (9 Jan 2003)
Answers to frequently asked questions about the Tobin Tax (9 Jan 2003)
Black hole at Pilkington:Glass company owes £200m to offshore investors (9 Jan 2003)
Doubts over Bush tax giveaway plan (8 Jan 2003)
AABA submission on the DTI’s “Review of the Regulatory Regime of the Accountancy Profession” (7 Jan 2003)
Globalization and the state–profession relationship: the case the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Ja n 2003)
NZ Inland Revenue Warns ICT Firms Over Transfer Pricing Concerns (7 Jan 2003)
Bermuda Most Popular Haven For Australian Assets (7 Jan 2003)
Soak the Poor enrich the rich - the new US tax plan (7 Jan 2003)
Europe takes a tilt at tax tangles (6 Jan 2003)
Accountancy firms have no shame (6 Jan 2003)
Constructing a Social Movement : The case of ATTAC: A case of constructive journalism (Jan 2003)
Eurobank's chief-in-waiting on trial for cover-up (6 Jan 2003)
US to give tax-free dividens to wealthy but no free healthcare for the poor (6 Jan 2003)
Rich move billions from Australia to tax havens ( 5 Jan 2003)
Irish Retailers Accused Of Dodging Plastic Bag Tax (3 Jan 2003)
'Split-Dollar' Tax Havens Under Threat (2 Jan 2003)
Jersey plans corporation tax cut to retain its haven status (2 Jan 2003)
Ernst & Young face $1 billion lawsuit over tax shelters (1 Jan 2003)