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• ATTAC Jersey Newsletter - December 2004 (31 Dec 2004)
  
• ATTAC Jersey Newsletter - November 2004 (31 Dec 2004)
• How Much Did The Barclay Twins Pay For Telegraph? (31 Dec 2004)
• Hollinger delays its 2003 report (31 Dec 2004)
• Britain too expensive for foreign firms (31 Dec 2004)
• Six Convicted in $120 Million International Tax Shelter Scam (29 Dec 2004)
  
• Tax advisers warn firms against UK (29 Dec 2004)
  
• TAX SHELTERS AND CORPORATE DEBT POLICY (29 Dec 2004)
• New study sheds light on corporate tax shelters (29 Dec 2004)
  
• Taxes and Corporate Finance: A Review (76 page PDF file) (29 Dec 2004)
• Study Indicates Tax Shelters Improve Companies' Financials (29 Dec 2004)
• Looting of Russia: After a decade of robbers, the year of Putin (28 Dec 2004)
  
• UK Revenue widens net on offshore trusts (28 Dec 2004)
  
• In Britain, a push for tax law shift (28 Dec 2004)
• Six defendants convicted in US tax shelter case (27 Dec 2004)
  
• Tax avoiders make the rest of society pay (27 Dec 2004)
• Ghost Firms Hinder Oil-For-Food Probe (25 Dec 2004)
  
• 'Ghosts' from Cyprus, Jordan, Panama, Curacao and Jersey Hamper Iraq Oil-for-Food Corruption Probe (24 Dec 2004)
  
• Iraq Contractor Claims Immunity From Fraud Laws (23 Dec 2004)
• UK government water down rules to curb corruption by companies after lobbying (23 Dec 2004)
• UNODC Unveils New Initiative Aimed at Recovering Stolen Assets (22 Dec 2004)
• Tax avoidance and evasion must not be worth the gamble (21 Dec 2004)
  
• New Zealand Inland Revenue Welcomes 'Trinity' Judgment (21 Dec 2004)
• €97m collected from Irish tax defaulters (21 Dec 2004)
• Privatization is a ticket to poverty (21 Dec 2004)
• Giant NZ forestry scheme ruled to be tax avoidance (21 Dec 2004)
• Mysterious bidder buys $9.4 billion Yukos “headache”(21 Dec 2004)
• A GAGGING order was not slapped on the Manx Electricity Authority, which is at the centre of an unauthorised loan scandal (21 Dec 2004)
  
• Isle of Man has been broken by a row over claims of abuse of power (20 Dec 2004)
  
• US Tax Practitioners Face New Ethical Standards (20 Dec 2004)
• UK Universities face £40m tax bill (20 Dec 2004)
• Tax havens to face new UN code on corruption (19 Dec 2004)
  
• Adolf Hitler was also an inveterate tax dodger (18 Dec 2004)
• Hitler owed the taxman £4m (17 Dec 2004)
  
• UK tax avoidance clampdown increased VAT revenue by £1.7bn in the fiscal year 2003-04 (17 Dec 2004)
  
• Tesco's Jersey DVDs beat UK VAT (16 Dec 2004)
• Amazon sets up offshore (16 Dec 2004)
  
• The BVI International Business Company at the Crossroads (16 Dec 2004)
  
• Tyco faces inquiry over UN scheme (16 Dec 2004)
• Washington tax collector on trail of art collectors (15 Dec 2004)
  
• Africa Seeks to Curb Profit Flight by attacking transfer pricing (15 Dec 2004)
• Jersey DVD distributor avoids U.K. sales tax (15 Dec 2004)
  
• PCAOB Unveils Proposed Rules on Tax Services by Auditors (15 Dec 2004)
  
• US Public accounting firms will be prohibited from providing certain tax services (15 Dec 2004)
  
• PCAOB Proposes Ethics and Independence Rules Concerning Independence, Tax Services, and Contingent Fees (15 Dec 2004)
• Internatonal Cricket body threatens to leave UK over tax (14 Dec 204)
  
• Russia moots new tactics to fight money laundering (14 Dec 2004)
• Early Day Motion (No 362) in UK Parliament: Legislators demand introduction of General Anti-Avoidance Rule (14 Dec 2004)
  
• UK MPs push for anti-avoidance clause (14 Dec 2004)
  
• Pinochet faces tax probes in the United States and Chile over reportedly undeclared offshore bank accounts (14 Dec 2004)
  
• Securities regulators press offshore tax havens for better assistance during investigations into wrongdoing by individuals and companies (13 Dec 2004)
  
• Human rights groups call Barclays to account over Thai pipeline project (12 Dec 2004)
• End export of profits (12 Dec 2004)
  
• 'One man's bribe is another's commission' (12 Dec 2004)
  
• Bribery and corruption: UK government volte-face over rules designed to stop bungs securing export deals (12 Dec 2004)
• Former Irish President and UN commisioner Mary Robinson is trying to bring multinationals together in a major effort to alleviate global poverty (12 Dec 2004)
• Is all well with Shell? (11 Dec 2004)
• Kenya claws back land looted by its leaders (11 Dec 2004)
  
• Winning the argument on poverty (10 Dec 2004)
• What monies lost due to tax avoidance could do: Help 1 billion children (9 Dec 2004)
• Read the UNICEF Report
  
• Accounting ruling hands UK law firms 30% tax hike (9 Dec 2004)
• Russian telecom firm hit with big tax bill (9 Dec 2004)
• Fridman: Back-Tax Troubles For Another Russian Billionaire (9 Dec 2004)
• Russian authorities have slapped a $157m (£82m) back tax bill on mobile operator Vimpelcom (9 Dec 2004)
  
• How Bush wages class war (8 Dec 2004)
• UK Tax 'raid' on with-profits funds (8 Dec 2004)
  
• Half of all workers on $2 a day or less (8 Dec 2004)
• Argentina to tackle tax 'evaders' (7 Dec 2004)
  
• How It Went Sour: The inside story of Parmalat, the biggest, most brazen corporate fraud in European history (7 Dec 2004)
• Nigerian villagers seize Shell oil platforms (6 Dec 2004)
• Poor are Paying the Price of Rich Countries’ Failure, says Oxfam (6 Dec 2004)
• Read the Oxfam Report - 86 page PDF File
  
• Brain drain must stop if poor countries are to be helped (6 Dec 2004)
• CONVICTED US TAX CHEATER SPILLS BEANS TO AGENTS (6 Dec 2004)
  
• UK mulls tax changes to shield revenues from EU (5 Dec 2004)
  
• Citigroup fingered for holding an Arafat-controlled account (5 Dec 2004)
• Ingenious bonuses come under the UK tax microscope (4 Dec 2004)
  
• Freezing orders and banks - a potential tax haven loophole (4 Dec 2004)
  
• UK leaves the offshore tax dodges alone (3 Dec 2004)
  
• Isle of Man chief minister quits over fraud claims (3 Dec 2004)
  
• Barclays Capital and Standard Bank London - are ensnared in a growing financial scandal in Singapore (3 Dec 2004)
• Rich will pay taxes, says Irish government (3 Dec 2004)
  
• UK Taxman tightens the noose still further (3 Dec 2004)
  
• Anger over backdated ban on pay deals that dodge UK tax (3 Dec 2004)
  
• KPMG bemoans UK tax avoidance clampdown (3 Dec 2004)
  
• Price of tax avoidance: Pensioners in the UK are more likely to die from cold this winter than older people in any other Northern European country (3 Dec 2004)
• CHANGES TO LEASE TAX REMOVES A DISTORTION, SAYS UK TREASURY (3 Dec 2004)
  
• UK government clamps down on the film industry's practice of claiming tax relief more than once yesterday, in a move that is set to save £120m by 2007 (3 Dec 2004)
  
• UK bankers and estate agents condemn moves by Chancellor to shut down tax-friendly bonus schemes (3 Dec 2004)
  
• War on UK tax avoidance will bring in £1bn a year (3 Dec 2004)
• Isle of Man chief minister resigned following arrest as part of investigations into allegations over tourism grants (2 Dec 2004)
  
• The Isle of Man's chief minister was arrested last night for alleged corruption (2 Dec 2004)
  
• Dynamite in the Center of Town: Thousands died in Bhopal (2 Dec 2004)
• EARLY DAY MOTION IN UK PARLIAMENT: GOVERNMENT URGED TO INVESTIGATE BIG ACCOUNTANCY FIRMS, BANKS AND LAW FIRMS FOR PEDDLING TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES (2 Dec 2004)
• EARLY DAY MOTION IN UK PARLIAMENT: GOVERNMENT URGED TO TARGET TAX DODGING COMPANIES  (2 Dec 2004)
• PRE-BUDGET REPORT STATEMENT TO THE UK HOUSE OF COMMONS DELIVERED BY CHANCELLOR GORDON BROWN (2 Dec 2004)
  
• Full Report of the UK pre-budget report and tax avoidance clampdown (2 Dec 2004)
• List of UK pre-budget press releases (33 page PDF file) (2 Dec 2004)
  
• UK package of measures aimed at tackling tax fraud and avoidance (2 Dec 2004)
  
• Main points of the UK anti Tax Avoidance Measures (need to register) (2 Dec 2004)
  
• UK raises the corporation tax rate for UK oil and gas producers to 40% with immediate effect (2 Dec 2004)
  
• UK Clampdown on film tax avoidance (2 Dec 2004)
  
• UK government clamps down on some tax dodges (2 Dec 2004)
  
• UK government likely to announce a clampdown on accountancy firms that offer "dodgy" tax avoidance schemes to big business (2 Dec 2004)
• UK tax avoidance industry devising more sophisticated schemes to avoid tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) (2 Dec 2004)
• Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives (2 Dec 2004)
  
• OECD Reviews Progress in the Worldwide Fight Against Corruption (1 Dec 2004)
• UK tax advisers inadvertantly reveal tax avoidance marketing (1 Dec 2004)
• UK Revenue's efforts have led to stand-off in film finance (1 Dec 2004)
• US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES TO HALT LOUISIANA TAX SCAM (1 Dec 2004)
• New  Zealand to introduce new tax rules for securities (1 Dec 2004)
  
• Exposure Draft for the UK Operrating and Financial Review (OFR) (1 Dec 2004)
  

• 'Score-draw' in landmark UK tax cases (30 Nov 2004)
• Inland Revenue Commissioners v Scottish Provident Institution
• Barclays Mercantile Business Finance Ltd v Mawson (Inspector of Taxes)
• House of Lords' Judgement: Barclays Mercantile Business Finance Limited (Respondents) v. Mawson (Her Majesty's Inspector of Taxes (Appellant)
• New Zealand’s Top 100 Wealthy On Tax Man’s Target List (30 Nov 2004)
• Branson investors don't feel much like Virgin in morning (30 Nov 2004)
  
• Jail Awaits King Of Sham Offshore Banks (30 Nov 2004)
  
• US Multinationals welcoming offshore cash (30 Nov 2004)
  
• US Tax-shelter promoter finally admits schemes were fraud (30 Nov 2004)
  
• Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election  (30 Nov 2004)
• Economics of tax avoidance: Tax revenues boost Deloitte's worldwide growth and fees of $16.4 billion (30 Nov 2004)
• ISLE OF MAN  NEEDS TO 'DUCK AND DIVE TO SURVIVE' (30 Nov 2004)
• UK  to extend net of tax avoidance (30 Nov 2004)
  
• UK Firms' pensions rejig could cost the Treasury £1bn a year (29 Nov 2004)
  
• UK governmment  to crack down on corporate tax avoidance  (29 Nov 2004)
  
• China expands anti-corruption drive (28 Nov 2004)
  
• One law for the rich .....: anger as UK government sneaks in pension gift for judges (27 Nov 2004)
• UK Taxman's warning worries film-makers (27 Nov 2004)
  
• Time to can the UK film subsidies: £2bn loophole needs to be closed (27 Nov 2004)
  
• UK Inland Revenue accused the British film industry of  deliberately over-claiming tax relief (26 Nov 2004)
• Almost 90 per cent of the foreign enterprises in China are making money under the table (25 Nov 2004)
• Tax evasion by multinational companies costs China more than 30 billion yuan (US$3.6 billion) in lost tax revenues annually (25 Nov 2004)
• Speed up tax recovery, UK MPs urge (25 Nov 2004)
• Read the 47 page Report: The recovery of debt by the Inland Revenue
• Yukos executives 'flee' Russia (25 Nov 2004)
  
• Australian Govt wins support for moves against Swiss accounts (25 Nov 2004)
  
• Impregilo Shares Sink on False Accounting Probe News (25 Nov 2004)
• Suspect Impregilo accounts (audited by Ernst & Young) raise fears of new Italian scandal (25 Nov 2004)
  
• IMPREGILO SUSPENDED FOR EXCESSIVE FALL (24 Nov 2004)
• Tax and a tale of modern morality (24 Nov 2004)
• Pixel owners suspected of huge tax evasion (24 Nov 2004)
• Whose lawyer are you now? When clients can be charged with obstruction for lying to their own counsel, the lines become blurred (24 Nov 2004)
  
• Whistleblower Complaints Are Up, but Why? (23 Nov 2004)
• PCAOB set to limit auditors' tax work (23 Nov 2004)
• The Race to the Bottom-Globalization or Brand Imperialism? (22 Nov 2004)
  
• TJN and AABA Campaigners denounce flat tax proposals (22 Nov 2004)
• Senators Oppose Move To Cut Off US Funding To OECD Tax Initiatives (22 Nov 2004)
  
• Sugar reform may hit poor nations, says Oxfam (22 Nov 2004)
• The inside story of Parmalat, the biggest, most brazen corporate fraud in European history (21 Nov 2004)
• Australia's tax rates near world highs (20 Nov 2004)
• Sibneft Becomes Russian Taxman’s Latest Target (19 Nov 2004)
  
• Citigroup probe into Arafat accounts (19 Nov 2004)
• Ireland Revenue launches major investigation into tax fraud by the insurance industry (19 Nov 2004)
• BBC finds evidence of corruption by companies doing business with Iraq while it was under the sanctions regime (19 Nov 2004)
• US man describes setting up offshore banks (19 Nov 2004)
• Pioneering tax fraud had exclusive clientele (19 Nov 2004)
• Money Laundering: The man from Miami (18 Nov 2004)
  
• US Senate Committee Hearings on How Saddam Hussein Abused the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program (18 Nov 2004)
• Senator Norm Coleman Statement: $21.3 billion was diverted
• Senator Carl Levin Statement: $1.7 billion paid in kickbacks
• Statement by Charles A. Duelfer, Special Advisor to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for Strategy Regarding Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Program , Central Intelligence Agency
• Mark L. Greenblatt , Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
• Steven A. Groves, Counsel , U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
• Juan Carlos Zarate, Assistant Secretary , U. S. Department of the Treasury
• Cooking the Insurance Books: A Decade of Lax Regulation Lays Groundwork for Scandal (17 Nov 2004)
• PCAOB Unveils Aggressive Agenda -- Tax Services Top List (18 Nov 2004)
• Bribery rules too tough for Rolls, Airbus and BAE (17 Nov 2004)
• Saddam diverted $21bn of UN aid (17 Nov 2004)
  
• Switzerland not planning referendum on EU savings tax deal (16 Nov 2004)
• British Virgin Islands Set To Abolish Corporate Income Tax and Increase Taxes on Individuals (16 Nov 2004)
  
• Reforming Jersey's Taxation Structure to squeeze more from the people (16 Nov 2004)
  
• New Zealand introduces Bill to ensure foreign-owned banks pay full tax (16 Nov 2004)
  
• Consequences of tax avoidance: 21,500 people over the age of 65 died during cold weather in England and Wales in 2003 (16 Nov 2004)
• Rules in OECD Countries to Prevent Avoidance of Corporate Income Tax (16 Nov 2004)
• Greek Government Provides Detail On Corporate Tax Reduction (15 Nov 2004)
  
• Go flat out for a new tax system (15 Nov 2004)
  
• Dissertation on tax avoidance (15 Nov 2004)
  
• Lord Black is charged with fraud (15 Nov 2004)
• SEC FILES FRAUD CHARGES AGAINST CONRAD BLACK, F. DAVID RADLER AND HOLLINGER INC (15 Nov 2004)
• Italian firms in Lesotho dam corruption case (14 Nov 2004)
  
• BAE implicated in bribery allegations has leading politicians as non-executive directors (14 Nov 2004)
• Making the Case for a Global Campaign Against Tax Avoidance and Tax Competition (13 page PDF file) (13 Nov 2004)
• TNK-BP hit by $87m bill for back tax  (13 Nov 2004)
• A US federal tax investigation adds to Bank of America’s pension woes (13 Nov 2004)
  
• Tax-avoidance car schemes are 'licence to kill' (13 Nov 2004)
  
• Global truths (13 Nov 2004)
• No human rights in the Isle of Man as a concerned poet is fined (13 Nov 2004)
  
• Tax query for BP's Russian ally (12 Nov 2004)
• Nissan settles with UK taxman for £37m (12 Nov 2004)
  
• The Saddam tax haven shuffle (12 Nov 2004)
• Toothless Fight Against Money Laundering (12 Nov 2004)
  
• Isle of Man poet faces jail in libel battle with millionaire (12 Nov 2004)
• Nissan settles corporation tax dispute with Inland Revenue (11 Nov 2004)
  
• The West is no less corrupt (11 Nov 2004)
• Kuwait documents allege Halliburton bribe scandal (11 Nov 2004)
  
• How they sell it: International Tax Planning Basic Techniques  (11 Nov 2004)
  
• IRS Audits Bank of America Tax Returns (11 Nov 2004)
• British Virgin Islands to abolish corporate and personal income taxes and replace them with a payroll tax (11 Nov 2004)
  
• Transfer Pricing and Taxation (10 Nov 2004)
• Jersey does nothing on the Rights of the Child and on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (10 Nov 2004)
  
• The Development of International Bribery Law (10 Nov 2004)
  
• European lawyers want reporting money laundering suspicions to be removed from a European directive (9 Nov 2004)
• Tax avoidance schemes cost Ireland exchequer €8bn (9 Nov 2004)
  
• Exempting workers on minimum wage  from the UK income tax and national insurance contributions would cost only £3.7 billion (9 Nov 2004)
• Diageo fights dirty cash claim (9 Nov 2004)
• New bribes scandal at Halliburton (9 Nov 2004)
• Colombia is suing some of the world's biggest spirits firms, such as the UK's Diageo and France's Pernod Ricard, for allegedly selling to drug traffickers (8 Nov 2004)
  
• Revelation, chapter one (8 Nov 2004)
• In 1990 10% of Britain's national income went to the top 1 %, by By 2000 it was 13% (8 Nov 2004)
  
• Two South Korean Public Corporations Accused of Tax Evasion (8 Nov 2004)
• Colombia sues Diageo over 'bribes' (7 Nov 2004)
  
• BAE flies into storm over Saudi 'slush fund' (7 Nov 2004)
• Britain's tax burden is relatively low as a proportion of GDP compared to other European countries (7 Nov 2004)
• UK government is putting the interests of business before tackling climate change (7 Nov 2004)
• THE INDIAN RESPONSE TO TRANSFER PRICING (6 Nov 2004)
  
• Transfer Pricing Tax System and Its Development in China (6 Nov 2004)
  
• The Invention of Operational risk (5 Nov 2004)
• US Judge Freezes $600M Tied to Tax Scheme (5 Nov 2004)
• UK legislation not specify any indicators for the Operating and Financial Review (4 Nov 2004)
• Arcadia and BHS billionaire Philip Green avoids £125m in tax because his clothing companies are in his wife's name who is resident in Monaco (4 Nov 2004)
  
• Enron and Merrill Lynch staff face jail (4 Nov 2004)
• '£22bn stealth tax' for UK pension crisis (4 Nov 2004)
  
• Dismay at BAE as fraud office comes calling (4 Nov 2004)
  
• Two arrested after police raids in BAE investigation (4 Nov 2004)
• Green hands Arcadia to his wife and saves £150m tax (3 Nov 2004)
  
• US IRS Loses a Tax Shelter Ruling (3 Nov 2004)
• Police raids rock BAE Systems (3 Nov 2004)
• Richard Desmond pension move cuts tax bill (3 Nov 2004)
  
• UK government refuses to publish any estimates of tax evasion and avoidance (2 Nov 2004)
  
• UK Consultation on implementing EU prospectus directive (2 Nov 2004)
• Casinos a haven for financial crime and money laundering (2 Nov 2004)
• ABN Amro Confirms U.S. Money Laundering Probe  (2 Nov 2004)
• Consequcnes of tax avoidance: 4.8 million Brits facing pensions poverty (2 Nov 2004)
• Ireland Finance Minister promises to close off tax loopholes and end "artificial tax planning schemes (2 Nov 2004)
• UK police officers unhappy over moves to grant American casinos an exemption from Europe's strict money laundering rules (1 Nov 2004)
• Alfa used Gibraltar to channel its oil sales from Iraq (1 Nov 2004)
• Cost of Tax Avoidance: UK tax burden on individuals has increased (1 Nov 2004)

October 2004

• Some reflections on morality of accountants, bankers and lawyers (31 Oct 2004)
• UK Police attack money-laundering exemption deal for US casinos (31 Oct 2004)
• REVOLVING DOORS: Treasury star joins KPMG (31 Oct 2004)
• BDO Stoy Hayward designs a scheme way for companies to provide workers with mobile phones courtesy of the taxman (31 Oct 2004)
• BIG business is missing out on nearly £1bn a year in UK tax breaks and government grants (31 Oct 2004)
• The economy is founded on the biggest casino of all - the stock exchange (31 Oct 2004)
• Blairs fight Cheriegate tax haven smear (31 Oct 2004)
• Casinos are a dream vehicle for the money launderer with dirty notes (31 Oct 2004)
• Proposals to give a new European Union police squad rights to investigate City fraud will be resisted by Britain (31 Oct 2004)
• Britain is haven for money laundering, says report (30 Oct 2004)
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• Transfer pricing scrutiny: Coming, ready or not (30 Oct 2004)
  
• EU Proposals Target Accounting Scandals ( 29 Oct 2004)
• EU Commission proposes collective board responsibility and more disclosure on transactions, off-balance sheet vehicles, offshore entities and corporate governance (29 Oct 2004)
• European Commission proposal for amending the Accounting Directives - Frequently Asked Questions (29 Oct 2004)
• Recent high-level bribery allegations highlight disregard for international anti-corruption laws (29 Oct 2004)
• UK Ministers waive new corruption rules for industry (29 Oct 2004)
• London 'a haven' for money launderers (29 Oct 2004)
• Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating allegations that German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG maintained at least 40 secret bank accounts to bribe foreign government officials (29 Oct 2004)
• Corruption and Money Laundering in the UK (33 page PDF file) (29 Oct 2004)
• EU to stop shops wriggling out of VAT (29 Oct 2004)
• Jamaica wants to be a tax haven (29 Oct 2004)
• Lean haul for UK taxman in evasion campaign (29 Oct 2004)
• 'Renaissance, The Tax People' Founder Arrested, Promoters Indicted for $84M Fraud (28 Oct 2004)
• Top Incomes in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom over the Twentieth Century (72 page PDF file) (28 Oct 2004)
• Top Incomes in the United Kingdom over the Twentieth Century (55 page PDF file) (28 Oct 2004)
• Income Tax and Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century (28 Oct 2004)
• Arcadia using Jersey to avoid UK taxes (28 Oct 2004)
• How UK's super-rich avoid huge tax bills (28 Oct 2004)
• Governments for Hire: Accountancy donors rally behind Bush campaign (28 Oct 2004)
• US Accountants’ contributions to politicians
• How Crikey drove Rupert offshore (28 Oct 2004)
• In 1997 UKincome tax, capital gains tax, national insurance and VAT accounted for 62.4 per cent of the total tax revenue raised - in 2004 it is 68.3 per cent (27 Oct 2004)
  
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• Corporate share of the UK taxes has dropped from 11.5 per cent in 97/98 to 7.7 per cent in 2003/2004 (27 Oct 2004)
  
• Get tough on money laundering, says UK Regulator (27 Oct 2004)
• Offshore: Offshore, on radar (27 Oct 2004)
• E&Y reports 11% global growth and income of US$14.5 bn (27 Oct 2004)
• Call for a general anti avoidance rule in the UK (need to register) (26 Oct 2004)
• UK Directors scorn code to combat corporate crime (26 Oct 2004)
• Leading the way in loophole efficiency (26 Oct 2004)
• Time to end tax havens in British Isles (26 Oct 2004)
• Mittal creates world's largest steel firm but what about taxes (26 Oct 2004)
• War, taxes & struggle in US (26 Oct 2004)
• ICAEW green report attacked by environmentalists (25 Oct 2004)
• Rethink over UK  money laundering rules (25 Oct 2004)
• Black & Decker ruling  is a setback US government's crack down on abusive tax shelters (25 Oct 2004)
• Richard Desmond, the owner of Express Newspapers, paid himself £46.2m last year (25 Oct 2004)
• Canadian accountants face tax evasion charges (25 Oct 2004)
• Yet more tax breaks for US fat cats (24 Oct 2004)
• Local Indian companies routing investments through Mauritius and other tax havens (24 Oct 2004)
• High consumption, pollution and low savings but US has the lowest taxes of any large industrial country (24 Oct 2004)
• Taxing the Boundaries of Corporate Social Reporting (23 Oct 2004)
• Total allegedly used offshore accounts in tax havens to pay bribes (22 Oct 2004)
• Scotland talk on evasion of corporate tax (22 Oct 2004)
• Tax evasion by ‘pin-stripe Mafia costing UK society up to £85 bn (22 Oct 2004)
• Irish tax loopholes allowed 11 millionaires to avoid paying levies on their earnings for the year 2001 (22 Oct 2004)
• Tax dodging is  major priority for UK corporations (21 Oct 2004)
• Bermuda and British Virgin Islands account for 11% of the FDI (21 Oct 2004)
• Tax reform is what we need (21 Oct 2004)
• Oil wealth 'can cause corruption' (21 Oct 2004)
• Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 (20 Oct 2004)
  
• Ireland's low rate of Corporation Tax is unsustainable and is fuelling a "race to the bottom" (20 Oct 2004)
• South Africa Treasury to crack down on executive tax dodgers (20 Oct 2004)
• US IRS, Virgin Islands Partner on Tax Enforcement (20 Oct 2004)
• UK Inland Revenue relights the debate over legal privilege (19 Oct 2004)
• Anti-Tax Haven Lobby Targets Jersey Firms (19 Oct 2004)
• Who better to reveal the seamy side of offshore life than a convicted money launderer? (19 Oct 2004)
• Channel flannel (19 Oct 2004)
• South Africa to crack down on tax dodgers (19 Oct 2004)
• Virgin territory (18 Oct 2004)
• Ambitious Mauritius (18 Oct 2004)
• The Social Irresponsibility of Corporate Tax Avoidance: Taking CSR to the Bottom Line (18 Oct 2004)
• Where there's smoke there's money to be made in carbon trading (17 Oct 2004)
• Big Four accountancy firms  blackmailing governments to limit paying for negligence (17 Oct 2004)
• Expert remedies to solve a whole world of problems but ignore the need to raise tax revenues to fund the projects (17 Oct 2004)
• Tax collection and corruption in Russian fiscal bodies (16 Oct 2004)
  
• British Virgin Islands corporate entities to have  a zero-tax system (16 Oct 2004)
• UK think-tank says the UK income tax threshold should be raised from £4,745 to £7,500 (16 Oct 2004)
• US insurance sector corrupt, says New York attorney general (15 Oct 2004)
• Iraq Contractor Accused of Offshore Shell Game (14 Oct 2004)
• BRITAIN is the biggest offender among European states in tax rules that breach EU law (14 Oct 2004)
• UK Regulator issues new money laundering guidance (14 Oct 2004)
• US Plan Likely to Weaken Allure of Fake Tax Shelters (14 Oct 2004)
• How dirty money binds the poor (13 Oct 2004)
  
• $50bn aid flows to developing economies from richer nations each year - $500bn in dirty money flows in the opposite direction out of poorer countries (13 Oct 2004)
  
• Auditors will exert even less effort and more scandals are sure to follow (13 Oct 2004)
• The case for a general anti-avoidance rule (13 Oct 2004)
• UK MPs debate cross-border money transfers (13 Oct 2004)
• Transfer pricing under scrutiny by the US taxman (12 Oct 2004)
  
• Exxon, Chevron named in Iraqi probe (11 Oct 2004)
  
• Two of the UK Labour party's biggest names are set to avoid paying thousands of pounds in tax (11 Oct 2004)
• Saddam 'used HSBC account in Jordan' (9 Oct 2004)
• HSBC probes 'Saddam connection' (9 Oct 2004)
• Drugs smuggler acquitted in UK has £3.6m confiscated (7 Oct 2004)
• UK Revenue revises accountants and  lawyers' tax duties and dilutes its tax avoidance legislation (7 Oct 2004)
• Read the Rules: Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 1863
• Read the Rules: Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 1864
• Read the Rules: Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 1865
• Read the Rules: Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 2429
• Parmalat Files Suit Against Bank of America (7 Oct 2004)
• Expose The Tax Cheats (7 Oct 2004)
• Siberian production unit of Russian oil giant Yukos hit with a tax bill of $950m (£553m; 27.8bn roubles) (7 Oct 2004)
• Further Legal Observations on the Yukos Affair (7 Oct 2004)
• Spain's top banker to stand trial on charges of tax fraud. (7 Oct 2004)
• Emilio Botín, head of Banco Santander Central Hispano charged with tax and document fraud (7 Oct 2004)
• Secretive UK agency accused of going too far in crackdown on crime assets (7 Oct 2004)
• Corporate Governance Lessons from Europe's Enron (6 Oct 2004)
• Protesters vent anger at Parmalat hearing (6 Oct 2004)
• Expose The Tax Cheats (6 Oct 2004)
• Social responsibility and tax avoidance are compatible, says NZ bank (6 Oct 2004)
• UK Ministers approve tax disclosure changes: the onus is on clients rather than lawyers and accountants (6 Oct 2004)
• BAE denies £60m Saudi slush fund (6 Oct 2004)
• BBC lifts the lid on secret BAE slush fund (5 Oct 2004)
• BAE faces 'slush fund' allegations (5 Oct 2004)
• BAE chief linked to slush fund (5 Oct 2004)
• Read the BAE documents
• Brussels bid to curb tax havens (4 Oct 2004)
• UK Company profits best since 1999, but what abut their taxes (4 Oct 2004)
• Jersey and Guernsey not committed to the  UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (4 Oct 2004)
  
• UK Corporate Profitability Up At 13.8% (4 Oct 2004)
• Tax havens undermine poor countries (4 Oct 2004)
• Money launderers use tax havens and store credit cards to beat the system (4 Oct 2004)
• South Carolina regulators  mull disciplinary action against KPMG over sales of allegedly abusive tax shelters (4 Oct 2004)
• Revenue crackdown hits Irish deposits in Isle of Man (3 Oct 2004)
• Cayman reaps the whirlwind (3 Oct 2004)
• How the UK government's decision to cancel tax credits has impacted on pension funds (3 Oct 2004)
• Pinochet accused in tax fraud inquiry (2 Oct 2004)
• Tax avoidance row fails to stop UK government plan (2 Oct 2004)
• Modern Welfare States Under Pressure: Determinants of Tax Policy in a Globalizing World (19 page pdf file) 2 Oct 2004)
• European Commission launches broad strategy to prevent financial and corporate malpractice (1 Oct 2004)
• Money launderers seek new ways to beat law (1 Oct 2004)
• Russian Aluminium under tax investigation (1 Oct 2004)
• US Internal Revenue Service is conducting an audit of toy maker Mattel (1 Oct 2004)
• FRAUD ABROAD TACTIC TEMPTS: Spotlight on transfer pricing (1 Oct 2004)

September 2004

• Malta a tax haven enticing the betting industry (30 Sep 2004)
• SUAL and Rusal in what official sources claim were tax evasion schemes, using transfer pricing, tolling, and tax shelters (30 Sep 2004)
• OFCs' Response to recent International Initiatives (30 Sep 2004)
• Galway's tax defaulters cough up € 2.6 million (30 Sep 2004)
• Transfer Pricing abd Tommy Hilfiger: Fraud Abroad Tactic Tempts (29 Sep 2004)
  
• Bribery culture harming poor nations (29 Sep 2004)
• US FEDERAL COURT STOPS OHIO TAX PROMOTIONS (29 Sep 2004)
• SEC urged to flesh out performance goals (29 Sep 2004)
• The super-rich are fleecing us by avoiding taxes, and it should be a matter of public record (28 Sep 2004)
• See correspondence on this article
• Ireland Revenue investigations into tax evasion has yielded the State E1.56bn (28 Sep 2004)
• A Citizen's Agenda for a Crack Down on Corporate Crime (28 Sep 2004)
• The globalisation of theft (28 Sep 2004)
• Tax inquiry hits Hilfiger shares (28 Sep 2004)
• Hilfiger shares plunge amid US tax probe (28 Sep 2004)
• New Zealand lays down its law on nature of tax avoidance (28 Sep 2004)
• Hilfiger's Tax Flap (27 Sep 2004)
• A Citizen's Agenda for a Crack Down on Corporate Crime  (27 Sep 2004)
• TAX evasion and benefit fraud is costing the British taxpayer £111bn a year (27 Sep 2004)
• Read an earlier version of the report (23 pages)
• 400 richest Americans control  $1 trillion of wealth (25 Sep 2004)
• Tax Havens That Have Become a Tax on the World's Poor (24 Sep 2004)
• Billions of dollars -- enough money to pay the health and education needs of the world's developing countries -- are being siphoned off through offshore companies and tax havens (24 Sep 2004)
• How US companies avoid taxes (24 Sep 2004)
• US companies making more profits but paying less in taxes (24 Sep 2004)
• With $87 billion Luxembourg heads the FDI table (23 Sep 2004)
• World Investment Report 2004: An overview
• Download World Investment Report 2004
• Large US firms often pay feds no tax (23 Sep 2004)
• 80 large US corporations paid no federal income tax in at least one year from 2001 to 2003 (23 Sep 2004)
• Read the 6 page summary of the Report
• Read the full 72 page report (pdf file)
• Read a critique of the methodology of the report
• Race to the Bottom: Holland to cut corporation tax by 4.5% by 2007 (23 Sep 2004)
• UK lawyer faces showdown on tax disclosure requirements (22 Sep 2004)
• A crackdown on tax avoidance by Australian-owned banks is expected to add $360 million a year (22 Sep 2004)
• Tax Havens that have become a tax on the world's poor (21 Sep 2004) 
• Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) ordered the Japanese commercial banking unit  Citigroup Inc, to halt operations at four branches for one year (21 Sep 2004)
• World leaders urged to find ways to close income gap (21 Sep 2004)
• Lib Dems want a new 50% rate of income tax on every pound earned over £100,000 (21 Sep 2004)
• First criminal case from Enron scandal to begin (21 Sep 2004)
• New Documentation Obligations in Germany For International Transfer Pricing (20 Sep 2004)
• Corporate tax collected by Georgia plunges $300 million (20 Sep 2004)
• Japan Orders Citibank to Halt Private Banking (20 Sep 2004)
• UK Revenue mellows on tax planning disclosure requirements (20 Sep 2004)
• Labour’s leading brothers exploit tax loophole (19 Sep 2004)
• American multinational companies booked a record $149 billion of profits in tax-haven countries in 2002 (18 Sep 2004)
• Japan orders Citigroup to close private banking branches (17 Sep 2004)
  
• Ireland 'most profitable country in the world for US firms (17 Sep 2004)
• Sadly, it's a case of business as usual as Britain fails to declare war on company scandals (15 Sep 2004)
• Companies in ‘tax havens' may face ban from US contracts (15 Sep 2004)
• Selling the White House to the Top Bidder (15 Sep 2004)
• America living beyond its means is really bad for us all (14 Sep 2004)
• UK Law Society goes to war on accountants’ privilege (14 Sep 2004)
• U.S. Profits Move to Tax Havens (14 Sep 2004)
• Read the 11 page Report (pdf file)
• Round Tripping FDI to China (14 Sep 2004)
• China losing $50 billion in embezzlement (14 Sep 2004)
• Sun setting on the Caribbean tax havens? (13 Sep 2004)
• AABA's proposed international acocunting standard: Reporting Turnover and Tax by Location (13 Sep 2004)
• U.S. multinationals shift their tax burden: Profit taken in offshore havens rose 68% over 3 years (13 Sep 2004)
• Proposed EU Directive on Statutory Audit: AABA urges robust comments (13 Sep 2004)
• Price of tax avoidance by some: Four million to pay UK top rate tax (13 Sep 2004)
• EU ministers clash on tax policy (12 Sep 2004)
• Embezzlement widespread in China: Officials hide $50 billion cash in offshore tax havens (12 Sep 2004)
• Rich Dodge Taxes Says Bush – A Flash of Honesty or Another Slip of the Tongue? (10 Sep 2004)
• Fast and Loose: The Chicago Legacy (10 Sep 2004)
• Tax dodging secrets should be safe with us, say UK tax experts (9 Sep 2004)
• British Energy tax liabilities bombshell (9 Sep 2004)
• Poachers and Gamekeepers: Former UK Inland Revenue chief joins PwC (8 Sep 2004)
• Coup drama plays on in a Guernsey court (8 Sep 2004)
• Consequences of tax avoidance: Nine Million UK women face retirement in poverty (7 Sep 2004)
• Former boss of National Environmental Services Co. fined $3.5 million and 9 years in prison for conspiracy, fraud, tax evasion and making false statements on loan documents (7 Sep 2004)
• Massive tax probe into the affairs of a Scottish gangland figure (7 Sep 2004)
• Russian Audit Chamber uncovers new tax avoidance scheme (7 Sep 2004)
• Price of corporate tax avoidance: Individuals clobbered by the UK government (6 Sep 2004)
• Conrad Black is alleged, among other things, to have arranged for millions of dollars in management fees to be paid to his private companies registered in Barbados (6 Sep 2004)
• Nauru passes new money laundering laws (5 sep 2004)
• More cardinal sins: Little has changed since Dickens's day - greedy, overbearing men still come a cropper  as in Hollinger (5 Sep 2004)
• UK Taxman forces Merrill to scrap dual pay (5 Sep 2004)
• Judge orders investigation of Hollinger (4 Sep 2004)
• Bank of Ireland fined over tax scam (3 Sep 2004)
• Tax shelter client to pursue a fraud lawsuit against Deutsche Bank AG and the law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (3 Sep 2004)
• Nigerian official in money laundering probe (3 Sep 2004)
• Bribery dialogue revealed: Halliburton says Nigerian scheme involved plant (3 Sep 2004)
• Bristol-Myers in $150 million Settlement With SEC Over Accounting Irregularities (2 Sep 2004)
• Public power in the age of empire (2 Sep 2004)
• Bring the rich to heel  (2 Sep 2004)
• Special report: Black and 'his' millions  (2 Sep 2004)
• Report says Black dodged Canadian tax (2 Sep 2004)
• Hollinger report slams KPMG (2 Sep 2004)
• Warfare State (2 Sep 2004)
• Governments for Sale: Corporate Donations to Republican Convention to Reach $160 Million (2 Sep 2004)
• Nigerian authorities investigating officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria  for failing to remit taxes collected through them (1 Sep 2004)
• Greedy Black plundered Hollinger, says report  (1 Sep 2004)
• Lawsuit report calls Hollinger a 'corporate kleptocracy' (1 Sep 2004)
• Corporate kleptocracy that mirrors Maxwell's world (1 Sep 2004)
• Black called shots and 'took what he wanted'  (1 Sep 2004)
• US fat cats 'reap offshoring rewards' (1 Sep 2004)
• Read the 37 page Report
• WTO ruled that the US flouts global trade rules by allowing thousands of US firms, operating through subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, to benefit from reduced export taxes (1 Sep 2004)
  

August 2004

• Profits before People: Insurers reject cancer payments (31 Aug 2004)
• Hollinger was "systematically manipulated" by controlling shareholders who took millions in payments that should have gone to the company (31 Aug 2004)
• Hollinger executives 'took $400m' (31 Aug 2004)
• Read the Hollinger Report submitted to the SEC , 513 pages
• U.S. powers upheld in tax-avoidance case (31 Aug 2004)
• U.S. court ruling in tax-avoidance case casts long shadow (31 Aug 2004)
• KPMG Reportedly Wrote New Versions of Illegal Shelters (30 Aug 2004)
• £17m Shell shock was just an early broadside in FSA war on abuse   (30 Aug 2004)
• UK taxman wants a slice of mis-selling payouts (30 Aug 2004)
• US Federal contracts benefit tax haven companies (28 Aug 2004)
• US Federal judge rejects tax shelter used by Nobel winners (28 Aug 2004)
• “US TAX HAVEN CONTRACTORS” MORE LIKELY TO ENJOY UNFAIR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WHEN BIDDING ON CONTRACTS (27 Aug 2004)
• Companies based in tax havens get unfair advantage (27 Aug 2004)
• Read 27 page report (pdf) from  the US GAO
• Read a Text version 
• NZ couple lose high court bid to sue  PwC for $500,000 after the failure of a tax scheme (27 Aug 2004)
• Poverty rate going up among Asians in United States (27 Aug 2004)
• US Census shows more people living below poverty level (27 Aug 2004)
• 36 million Americans below poverty line   (27 Aug 2004)
• Vivendi tax deal stymies Vodafone's plans for SFR (27 Aug 2004)
Prosecutors seize Yukos records (26 Aug 2004)
Banks 'laundered' Iraq oil for food payments (26 Aug 2004)
KPMG Wrote New Versions of Tax Shelters Ruled Illegal (26 Aug 2004)
A tax shelter factory bared in KPMG memos (26 Aug 2004)
Yukos' Accounting Division Is Raided (26 Aug 2004)
Profits before People: Mercenaries, money and political connections (26 Aug 2004)
A Thousand Bucks for a Pack of Cigarettes? (25 Aug 2004)
Cigarette firm acts in $1 billion tax row – did not pay taxes from 1990 to 1998   (25 Aug 2004)
British Virgin Islands, Jersey and Niue implicated in NZ$3 billion tax fraud (24 Aug 2004)
UK lawyers moan about the Tax Avoidance Disclosure Regime (24 Aug 2004)
Corporations involved in 'tax treason' (23 Aug 2004)
Australia to investigate secret Swiss bank accounts and target tax havens in a crackdown on offshore tax-evasion (22 Aug 2004)
£2bn-a-year UK VAT fraud cases frozen (22 Aug 2004)
Jersey: A very Peculiar place (22 Aug 2004)
Five Lawyers, Accountants Guilty of Tax, Investment Fraud (22 Aug 2004)
Fairer inheritance tax needed in the UK to respond to rising wealth inequality (22 Aug 2004)
Bush avoids serious tax talk with jokes, critics say (21 Aug 2004)
US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network  estimates that up to $1.5 trillion is laundered annually around the world (20 Aug 2004)
UK's black econony of £80 billion may be good (20 Aug 2004)
Australia crackdown  on tax avoidance by big business and rich individuals yielded $2.5 billion (19 Aug 2004)
Soweto Resists ANC Privatization Moves (18 Aug 2004)
ANC Privatizations Fail to Deliver in South Africa (18 Aug 2004)
Australian Taxman employs hundreds for blitz (18 Aug 2004)
Israel to tax trusts run by the wealthy (18 Aug 2004)
Tax avoidance lawsuit alleges fraud and malpractice against KPMG (18 Aug 2004)
Brazil Cracking Down on Money Laundering   (17 Aug 2004)
Advisers to MCI/WorldCom ask court for $613 million (17 Aug 2004)
Suit accuses KPMG and Others of Selling Illegal Tax Shelters (17 Aug 2004)

Swatch tax complaint dismissed by US officials (16 Aug 2004)
Gibraltar Qualifying Company Status Under Threat (16 Aug 2004)
US Government Issues Guidance On Classification Of Business Entities Organized In Multiple Jurisdictions (16 Aug 2004)
Multinationals hand UK taxman £20bn final demand (15 Aug 2004)
Swatch says transfer pricing plan was legal (14 Aug 2004)
Swatch Denies Tax Evasion Allegation (13 Aug 2004)
Tax dodging claim at Swatch (13 Aug 2004)
Australia challenges the secrecy of Swiss banks (13 Aug 2004)
Banks in NZ to pay more tax (13 Aug 2004)
UK Stakeholder pensions 'a tax break for well-off' (13 Aug 2004)
Jersey at the Centre of the  Riddle of The Accident Group millions (13 Aug 2004)
US  taxman hits Motorola with $500m (£273m) bill for underpaid taxes between 1996 and 2000 (12 Aug 2004)
Boca investors sue KPMG over late-90s dot com tax shelter scheme (12 Aug 2004)
US IRS seeks $500 million in back taxes from Motorola over tranfer pricing (12 Aug 2004)
US Taxman hits Motorola with big bill (12 Aug 2004)

Motorola's $500 million taxing dispute over transfer prricing (12 Aug 2004)


Phillipines detects P100 billion in under-declared sales by corporate taxpayers   (11 Aug 2004)
US tax case questions outside influence at IRS (10 Aug 2004)
Parmalat turns legal guns on Deutsche Bank (10 Aug 2004)
Italian magistrates investigate bribes allegations at Enipower (10 Aug 2004)
White paper on corporate governance in Russia (9 Aug 2004)
UK TAXMEN BATTLE TO RUIN GANGSTER MCGRAW (8 Aug 2004)
South African Multinationals Face Foreign Holdings Tax Bill (7 Aug 2004)
$136 million Qwest expense tied to 'abusive' tax shelter (7 Aug 2004)
Offshore off-licence to open off the coast of Hartlepoo l (6 Aug 2004)
Practice your Bushism here (6 Aug 2004)
UBS faces £192m Parmalat claim (6 Aug 2004)
UK government appeases accounts by creating exemptions for reporting money laundering (6 Aug 2004)
Big-money tax evaders in US IRS cross hairs (5 Aug 2004)
UK Treasury and Europe in £20bn corporate tax battle (5 Aug 2004)
WTO raps EU over sugar subsidies (4 Aug 2004)
Some people living in Jersey may leave the island because of the proposed new sales tax (4 Aug 2004)
Pinochet's wife testifies on offshore accounts (4 Aug 2004)
UK government to indulge accountants on money laundering (4 Aug 2004)
Read the proposals
Consequences of tax avoidance: London is 'TB hotspot' (3 Aug 2004)
Crackdown on UK tax dodgers confuses firms (2 Aug 2004)
UK losing £11 billion a year in VAT fraud and evasion (2 Aug 2004)
Read UK Parliamentary Committee's Report

What WTO needs is a new Reformation (2 Aug 2004)
PwC named in the Yukos lawsuit  - 27 apge PDF file (2 Aug 2004)
On the road again from US to the Far East (1 Aug 2004)
Bank Robbery: Irish Style (1 Aug 2004)
The Phillipines Tax Dodgers (1 Aug 2004)

July 2004

• National Irish Bank fined £42m for tax evasion (31 Jul 2004)
• How the National Irish Bank Scandal Unfolded (30 Jul 2004)
• Price of tax avoidance: UK student debt rises to £14bn (30 Jul 2004)
• Parmalat sues Citigroup for its financial meltdown (30 Jul 2004)
• Reforms but No Fines for Parmalat (30 Jul 2004)
• Pinochet Son Arrested for Alleged Tax Fraud (30 Jul 2004)
• Wisconsin offers deal to stop banks' tax shelter (29 Jul 2004)
• US IRS Cites Firms on Tax-Avoidance Plan (29 Jul 2004)
Brazil banker resigns in tax row (29 Jul 2004)
UK Excise told to increase fraud fines (29 Jul 2004)
Former Investec employee admits he took £1.8m tax fraud (28 Jul 2004)
Tobacco Industry Saves on Soft Money, Spends On Advertising and Lobbyists (28 Jul 2004)
A Cheesey Tax-Induced Export Subsidy with Transfer Pricing Holes (27 Jul 2004)
US IRS estimates that tax avoidance and evasion schemes cost the US Treasury $195 billion a year, or nearly $2 trillion ($2000 billion) over the next decade (27 Jul 2004)
US IRS requests 10 percent increase in its enforcement budget for 2005 (26 Jul 2004)
The UK black economy could be worth more than £100bn a year (26 Jul 2004)
Danish houseowners pay a tax of 1 per cent of the property value: Should Britons follow suit (25 Jul 2004)
UK Taxman's 'ludicrous' Mapeley offshore property deal could cost taxpayers extra £1bn (25 Jul 2004)
Honda, Nissan face UK tax probe over tranfer pricing (23 Jul 2004)
Corporations Financing the US Presidential Elections: Favours will Follow (22 Jul 2004)
US Senate Finance Committee hearings on "Bridging the Tax Gap" (21 July 2004)
Read the 384 page PDF Report

US has a tax gap of $311 billion for 2001
Tax Gap leads to social injustices, says US Regulator 
Data sharing and analysis may enhance tax compliance, says GAO 
Between 1m -2million US  taxpayers avoid $40 to $70 billion teach year in taxes by using offshore bank accounts
Cash economy is a major cuase of the tax gap 

Witness states how his advisers and offshore havens enabled him avoid taxes 
Witness explains the corrosive Wall Street culture of tax dodging
Causes of the Tax Gap

New York stockbrokers laundered money by using offshore credit cards, says Robert Morgenthau

How California is addressing the tax gap

Significanc eof the tac gap to tapayers

Who is Rupert Murdoch?: How one right-wing billionaire uses his business and media empire to pursue a partisan agenda at the expense of democracy (21 Jul 2004)
Japanese car giants face UK tax probe over transfer pricing (21 Jul 2004)
Mourant du Feu makes leap into Cayman Islands (21 Jul 2004)
ERNST & YOUNG AGREES TO PAY UNITED STATES $1.5 MILLION FOR SETTLEMENT OF FALSE CLAIMS ACT CASE (20 Jul 2004)

Halliburton faces new subpoena over Cayman dealings (20 Jul 2004)
US House brings more pressure on offshore tax shelters (20 Jul 2004)
Consequences of corporate tax avoidance:  More UK homes 'hit' by death taxes (19 Jul 2004)
Channel Islands struggle to keep us occupied (18 Jul 2004)
Arsenal players 'dodge tax' in sophisticated deal (18 Jul 2004)
Parlour Divorce Exposes Arsenal 'Offshore Tax Dodge' (17 Jul 2004)
Shell auditors had early reserves warning on its oil reserves (16 Jul 2004)
US oil and gas companies have 882 subsidiaries in tax haven countries (16 Jul 2004)
US House of Representatives votes to block the loans to companies that move offshore (16 Jul 2004)
Study of FTSE companies shows little environmental accounting (16 Jul 2004)
Profits before People: 30% of UK children living below the breadline (16 Jul 2004)
Tax Avoidance Matters: AIDS Cuts Life Span to 33 in Some Countries (15 Jul 2004)
Australian Accountants jailed as jury sees through tax scam (14 Jul 2004)
China loses 30 billion yuan annually due to tax avoidance by foreign-funded companies (13 Jul 2004)
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ANNOUNCED BY MURRAY, FRANK & SAILER LLP AGAINST YUKOS OIL COMPANY ON BEHALF OF SHAREHOLDERS - YUKOF.PK, YUKOY.PK (13 Jul 2004)
Read the 31 page lawsuit (13 Jul 2004)
UK tax authorities publish the Tax Avoidance Schemes (Information) Regulations 2004 (12 Jul 2004)
The Tax Avoidance Schemes (Promoter and Prescribed Circumstances) Regulations 2004
The Tax Avoidance Schemes (Prescribed Descriptions of Arrangements) Regulations 2004
Enron wife sent to jail (12 Jul 2004)
Sibneft’s $482m tax avoidance legal (12 Jul 2004)
Police swoop on Nigerian email fraud ringleaders (11 Jul 2004)
Yukos shareholders sue accountants for millions (11 Jul 2004)
Trouble in paradise as financial squeeze hits the expatriate lifestyle in Jersey (10 Jul 2004)
Ireland in Trouble over Tobacco Tax Collection (10 Jul 2004)
Tobacco industry tried to tilt 1994 US election (10 Jul 2004)
Tobacco giant Philip Morris will pay the EU 1.25 billion dollars (1.0 billion euros) over 12 years following an agreement  on the fight against contraband and counterfeiting of cigarettes (10 Jul 2004)
US Judge Rules Most BDO Tax Shelter Documents Protected (9 Jul 2004)
Structures of the taxation systems in the European Union - Data 1995 - 2002 (334 page PDF file) (8 Jul 2004)
Dramatic drop in UK tax burden (8 Jul 2004)
Offshore “off-licence” to avoid taxes (8 Jul 2004)
Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's children in 'dirty money' inquiry (8 Jul 2004)
The meaning of 'justice' in tax justice (8 Jul 2004)
Another top tax name resigns at KPMG (8 Jul 2004)
Jersey's to reduce corporate profits tax to 0% or 10% for some corporations (8 Jul 2004)
Sark: Tax avoiders paradise but kids can get drubnk at 16 (8 Jul 2004)
EU tax divide (8 Jul 2004)
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): Implications for regulation of financial services in the United States (7 Jul 2004)
Coke, Intel Use Cayman Islands to Reduce U.S. Taxes (7 Jul 2004)
Jersey:  "an overpriced ghetto for the very wealthy" (7 Jul 2004)
Campaign against tax evasion launched in China (7 Jul 2004)

OECD slams Russia's Yukos trial (7 Jul 2004)
UK foreign secretary rebukes Russia's government for chasing Yukos for tax avoidance (7 Jul 2004)
UK business forms  a taskforce to attack critics of  corporate behaviour (6 Jul 2004)
The lawsuit that ends the Russian oligarchs’ run for cash (6 Jul 2004)
US shareholders accuse Yukos, PWC of fraud (6 Jul 2004)
Africa 'should not pay its debts' (6 Jul 2004)
Jersey workers stage protest over jobs (6 Jul 2004)
Barclay brothers, owners of the Daily Telegraph, run businesses controlled by offshore companies and trusts in Bermuda, Jersey and the British Virgin Islands (5 July 2004)
FATF removes Guatemala from the list of non-cooperating countries (5 Jul 2004)
Out of India's population of a billion people only 20 million pay tax (5 Jul 2004)
Jersey is facing unprecedented economic and political upheaval  (5 Jul 2004)
UK Revenue slams door on two more tax loopholes (5 Jul 2004)
Australian Taxman's next targets (5 Jul 2004)
One building, 12,748 companies (4 Jul 2004)
OECD's Project on Harmful Tax Practices: 2004 Report - 18 pages (4 Jul 2004)
Right wing Think Tank Lambasts OECD Global Tax Forum (4 Jul 2004)
Bring back the state, says Francis Fukuyama (4 Jul 2004)
Forget responsibility, think opportunities: How to win with CSR (4 Jul 2004)
CSR: Companies will tackle social and environmental problems (4 Jul 2004)
Ernst & Young 2003 Global Survey: Transfer Pricing (4 Jul 2004)
Russian police raid Yukos offices (3 Jul 2004)
Philippines likely to remain on FATF list of uncooperative countries (3 July 2004)
Bank of America settles Enron lawsuit for $69m (3 Jul 2004)
Is Alan Greenspan a Money Launderer? (3 Jul 2004)
The tax havens the OECD forgot? (3 Jul 2004)
IMF Paper; The Price and Volume of International Trade: Background, Purpose and Uses of Import and Export Price Indices - 15 pages (2 Jul 2004)
Japan: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes--FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (1 Jul 2004)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into OECD Countries Fell in 2003 (1 Jul 2004)

June 2004

• Tax Evasion, Corruption, and the Remuneration of Heterogeneous Tax Inspectors... (30 Jun 2004)
• Marc Lopatin questions the Tax Business (30 Jun 2004)
  
• Al Fayed Loses Appeal over Special Tax Status in the UK (30 Jun 2004)
• Read the Court verdict
• Dilemma for Putin over Yukos £2bn tax bill (30 Jun 2004)
• Money laundering: EU Commission proposes to update and improve Directive (30 Jun 2004)
• Tax evasion: hidden billions for development   (30 Jun 2004)
• Yukos awaits tax bailiffs order (30 Jun 2004)
• Expat offshore US firms slammed as 'unpatriotic' (30 Jun 2004)
• Agencies warn against Virgin Island tax scam (30 Jun 2004)
• UK Treasury vows to end stores' VAT ploy (30 Jun 2004)
• BP ups its oil reserves in latest filing to US officials (30 Jun 2004)
• Brussels to demand that France Telecom pay back taxes (30 Jun 2004)
• Debenhams VAT Scheme Ruled Legal by UK courts (29 Jun 2004)
• Norsk falls foul of SEC and downgrades its oil reserves by 6% (29 Jun 2004)
• Yukos forced to pay $3bn tax bill (29 Jun 2004)
• Yukos likely to pay another 100 billion roubles in taxes (29 Jun 2004)
• Vested business interests in the House of Lords attack UK government's proposals for combating tax avoidance but are silent on their own corporations (28 Jun 2004)
• Rewards of tax avoidance: Tycoon shells out $60 million for daughter's wedding (28 Jun 2004)
• Scandal not my fault, says Enron chief (28 Jun 2004)
• Go-ahead for global tax squad (27 Jun 2004)
• Watchdogs close in on Cayman Islands KF Concept  scam (27 Jun 2004)
• Tax dodgers proving quicker than tax collectors (27 Jun 2004)
• Barclay brothers pay negligible tax on their UK businesses (27 Jun 2004)
• Ernst & Young is facing a criminal inquiry in New York over the accounting firm's promotion of tax shelters (25 Jun 2004)
• American firms scarce at UN forum on ethics (25 Jun 2004)
• Corporate governance takes international stage, but Americans are scarce (24 Jun 2004)
• UN Chief Calls for Corporate Responsibility (24 Jun 2004)
• Isle of Man government condemned (24 Jun 2004)
• Millions lost in unpaid UK council tax bills (23 Jun 2004)
• KPMG helped at least 29 U.S. corporations to avoid at least $1.7 billion in owed taxese (22 Jun 2004)
• UK government backs down on its purge on tax avoidance schemes (21 Jun 2004)
• Corporate elites rule: Blow to US over cotton subsidies (20 Jun 2004)
• Apartheid victims seek $20bn from IBM, Anglo American, Fluor Corporation and UBS for conspiring and aiding and abetting genocide (20 Jun 2004)
• US House Democrats Lose Accenture Battle (19 Jun 2004)
• US IRS says H.J. Heinz used a sham shelter to manufacture a tax loss (19 Jun 2004)
• Bush administration against ban on offshore businesses (19 Jun 2004)
• Jersey links of BHS and Arcadia (18 Jun 2004)
• IKEA and its tax avoidance through tax havens (18 Jun 2004)
• Connecticut cracking down on 'abusive' tax shelters (18 Jun 2004)
• Tax avoidance has reached epidemic proportions among American companies (17 Jun 2004)
• KPMG Shelter Generated $1.7B tax avoidance for 29 US companies (17 Jun 2004)
• UK Accountants fail to comply with money laundering reporting obligations (16 Jun 2004)
• KPMG tax shelter drew major U.S. firms (16 Jun 2004)
• KPMG tax shelter had 29 clients and lost $1.7 billion of tax revenues (16 Jun 2004)
• White collar crime: Laughing all the way from the bank (16 Jun 2004)
• Russian tycoon on fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion charges (16 Jun 2004)
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Regulation (15 Jun 2004)
• Shell tries to win friends as it owns up to mistakes    (15 Jun 2004)
• Irish Revenue collects €500m in unpaid tax (15 Jun 2004)
• DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION: FACTS AND FIGURES: 2004 UNCTAD Report (14 Jun 2004)
• UK companies avoid taxes but demand another £70bn public investment for transport (14 Jun 2004)
• How Shell's desperate thirst for oil is devastating Nigeria (13 Jun 2004)
• Tax havens moan about OECD policies (13 Jun 2004)
• Volcafe which supplies beans to Nescafé and Maxwell House, is accused of using tax haven of Jersey to avoid paying millions of pounds to the developing countries (13 Jun 2004)
• PWC gets $130 million Iraq reconstruction contract  (13 Jun 2004)
• Jersey banker jailed for theft (13 Jun 2004)
• Backroom politics of WTO (12 Jun 2004)
• Accenture accensured for offshore tax haven (12 Jun 2004)
• Companies are moving to law firms for tax advice in wake of new accounting rules (12 Jun 2004)
• International rules on trade are tightening the noose around poor nations (12 Jun 2004)
• Read the Oxfam Report
• Why would anyone oppose socially responsible companies; because it's a facade (12 Jun 2004)
• SEC probing Halliburton 'bribes' (11 Jun 2004)
• OPTION ZERO IN HAITI (11 Jun 2004)
• UK accountants claim Tax clampdown will lead to chaos, but silent on their anti-social behaviour (11 Jun 2004)
• Shell admits fuelling corruption (11 Jun 2004)
• US tax row puts $10bn Accenture (Bermuda based) deal at risk (11 Jun 2004)
• Accountants try to scupper UK money laundering laws by making false reports (10 Jun 2004)
• Corporate governance tasks should be achieved globally (10 Jun 2004)
• Check out the Iraq War Profiteers (10 Jun 2004)
• Vodafone Tax Move Angers German Government (10 Jun 2004)
• EUR20 billion tax Vodafone tax deal causes outrage in Germany (10 Jun 2004)
• KPMG Named in MCI Tax Shelter Case (9 Jun 2004)
• Tax haven grip increase on Jersey (9 Jun 2004)
• OECD and Non-OECD Economies Agree to Continue Work on Tax Information Exchange (8 Jun 2004)
• VODAFONE facing calls for a massive windfall tax in Germany (8 Jun 2004)
• Listen to BBC Radio Five Report, "No Tax Please, We're British" (7 Jun 2004)
• UK Inland Revenue threatens to rain on offset mortgage parade (7 Jun 2004)
• UK Tax avoidance laws prove too taxing for accountants and business (7 Jun 2004)
• Five Live’s Tax on Sunday (6 Jun 2004)
• England football stars blasted for avoiding tax on fortune from TV ads (6 Jun 2004)
• Outcome, conclusion of the meeting of the OECD Global Forum on Taxation in Berlin, 3-4 June 2004 (4 Jun 2004)
• Coke’s Brazilian unit faces a possible tax evasion (4 Jun 2004)
• EU agrees deal to clamp down on tax dodgers (3 Jun 2004)
• HealthSouth (audited by Ernst & Young) Report Finds $2.7B in Fraudulent Accounting Entries (3 Jun 2004)
• Former HealthSouth finance chief gets house arrest in accounting fraud (3 Jun 2004)
• Big Four accountancy firms confront tax avoidance pressure from UK parliament (3 Jun 2004)
• Accountants and lawyers moan about UK tax avoidance legislation (2 Jun 2004)
• Split loans ruled as tax dodge by Australian courts (2 Jun 2004)
• Email shows Cheney 'link' to oil contract (1 Jun 2004)
• Sucking up to corporations: Tories claim UK avoidance clampdown is unethical (1 Jun 2004)
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• INTERNATIONAL TAX AND TRANSFER PRICING. (1 Jun 2004)
  
• Six years on - the Isle of Man still twiddling its thumbs on financial regulation (1 Jun 2004)

May 2004

• Tax avoidance charges against two of Russia’s richest men (31 May 2004)
• Campaign groups  withdraw support for the UK government's international CSR proposals (30 May 2004)
• African oil supply boost 'ripe for corruption' (30 May 2004)
• Wrong Time For Sales Tax, Warns Jersey Official (28 May 2004)
• UK MP wants end to tax avoidance (29 May 2004)
• UK Taxman's £1.6bn tax shelter hunt (28 May 2004)
• Scandal over 'tax dodges' hits AIB (28 May 2004)
• Allied Irish tax evasion sparks uproar (28 May 2004)
• To appease corporations UK government proposes to eliminate the role of parliament in approving company law: Will you speak up (27 May 2004)
• The Battle for Iraqi Audits (27 May 2004)
• PwC  partner 'not independent' claims Jersey senator (27 May 2004)
• UK MP calls for probe into company tax affairs (27 May 2004)
• The Global Artful Dodger (26 May 2004)
• TAX AVOIDANCE (26 May 2004)
•   Russian oil giant Yukos ordered to pay 99bn roubles ($3.5bn) in back taxes (26 May 2004)
• Ernst & Young facing a criminal inquiry in New York over  tax shelters (25 May 2004)
• US prosecutors begin a criminal investigation into Ernst & Young promotions of potentially abusive tax shelters (24 May 2004)
• U.S. federal officials probe E&Y over tax shelters (24 May 2004)
• U.S. criminal probe of Ernst & Young (24 May 2004)
• U.S. federal officials probe E&Y over tax shelters (24 May 2004)
• Tax Ministry discloses tax-evading scheme used by YUKOS (24 May 2004)
• Paying for the social services - Thatcher's taxation legacy (23 May 2004)
• Chelsea owner in Kremlin's sights over tax (22 May 2004)
• Do sophisticated investors undferstand accounting quality? (large pdf file) (22 May 2004)
• Yukos tax-evasion claim upheld (22 May 2004)
• UK Taxman to claw back hardship payments (22 May 2004)
• Revolving Doors: Former UK Revenue inspector gets PwC tax post (21 May 2004)
• UK Legislators urge the government to investigate banks, accountancy and law firms for peddling tax avoidance schemes (20 May 2004)
• UK Legislators urge the government to investigate companies that pay little or no corporation tax (20 May 2004)
• Dallas-Based Law Firm Gives IRS Names of Questionable Tax Shelter Users (20 May 2004)
• EU finally signs Swiss tax deal (20 May 2004)
• Invitation to comment on UK government proposals for registration of tax avoidance schemes (18 May 2004)
• Read the Disclosure Requirements – Draft Regulations
• Ernst & Young admits settling a multimillion-dollar tax claim with Australian tax authorities (18 May 2004)
• US Court Orders Tax Shelter Clients Named       (18 May 2004)
• Parmalat prosecutors aim for trial (18 May 2004)
• Shift of tax goalposts hurting Big Four accountancy firms (18 May 2004)
• European framework for companies known as Societas Europaea (18 May 2004)
• Don't call us mercenaries, says British company with lucrative contracts and cheap labour (17 May 2004)
• KPMG hit with $100 million penalty tax bill in Australia (17 May 2004)
• Times don't have to be this hard for working poor (17 May 2004)
• Poverty and corporate corruption show capitalism is not working in Russia (16 May 2004)
• KPMG hit with $100 million claim in unpaid taxes and penalties for allegedly breaching Australian anti-avoidance tax laws (16 May 2004)
• Poorest Pay for World Bank Corruption (15 May 2004)
• CIS Calls for Review of Share Options as it Reveals Seven Deadly Sins (15 May 2004)
• Israel seeks to end Singapore tax shelter for Israeli companies (15 May 2004)
• New tax and NIC anti avoidance legislation introduced by the UK govt (15 May 2004)
• Capital, state and space: contesting the borderless world (14 May 2004)
• How to fix our 'broken democracy ' (14 May 2004)
• Corruption 'may have cost World Bank $100bn'       (14 May 2004)
• The future at stake as some taxpayers enjoy a free ride (14 May 2004)
• EU clears way for tax, borders deal with Switzerland (14 May 2004)
• Arthur Andersen face $34 million  lawsuit LLP for a fraudulent tax shelter (14 May 2004)
• The Politics of Petroleum (13 May 2004)
• Transfer pricing: why the taxman is changing the transfer pricing rules (13 May 2004)
• All UK regulators whould be 'open' and accountable to Parliament, says a parliamentary Committee (13 May 2004)
• PwC partner urges Jersey to shift taxes to individuals and increase indirect taxes to accommodate zero rate corporation tax (12 May 2004)
• Transcript of meeting between Jersey's Senator Syvret and PwC partner John Whiting
• Stuart Syvret's letter to PwC partner John Whiting
• US Senate approves bill to give  $170 billion in corporate tax cuts over the next decade to replace export subsidies (12 May 2004)
• Harrod's boss Al Fayed faces tax probe (12 May 2004)
• FAYED TAX PROBE SET  (12 May 2004)
• Read the OPINION OF LORD REED
• UK Students face £2,000 extra debt (12 May 2004)
• Mapeley mastermind to quit for new venture (11 May 2004)
• EU's plan to curb tax evasion hits speed-bump (11 May 2004)
• EU-25 tackles vexed tax fraud deal with Switzerland (11 May 2004)
• UK tax authorities attacked for losing £14 billion in uncollected taxes (11 May 2004)
• Rare-instrument sale raises tax evasion issue (10 May 2004)
• P250B lost to tax evasion (10 May 2004)
• British women caught up in Calvi 'God's banker' murder trial (9 May 2004)
• How Toys R Us avoids millions in taxes (9 May 2004)
• Christian Responses to Globalization (9 May 2004)
• Corporations and foreign companies are getting away with daylight robbery (9 May 2004)
• Structures and Struggles in the Discourse of Radical Democracy (9 May 2004)
• RETHINKING MARXISM (9 May 2004)
• SCHOOLING, CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRACY (9 May 2004)
• Relocating participation within a radical politics of development: citizenship and critical modernism (9 May 2004)
• The Beautiful Enigma of Radical Democracy (9 May 2004)
• RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY CONTROL (9 May 2004)
• ETHICS, POLITICS AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY - THE HISTORY OF A DISAGREEMENT (9 May 2004)
• Practicing Radical Democracy: Lessons from Brazil (9 May 2004)
• Radical Democracy and Civil Society (9 May 2004)
• U.K. Tax Office Shuts Finance Workers' Bonus Loophole (9 May 2004)
• Read James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (8 May 2004)
• Read Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (8 May 2004)
• Merck could owe $2 bln back taxes after IRS audit (8 May 2004)
• Merck faces $2bn bill for tax (8 May 2004)
• Do US fat cats pay lower tax rates than workers? (8 May 2004)
• Tax avoidance is OK, says Ernst & Young partner (7 May 2004)
  
• UK watchdog slams the Mapeley STEPS deal (7 May 2004)
• US auditor watchdog eyes tax shelters, independence (7 May 2004)
• Allied Irish Bank admits overcharging foreign exchange customers 14m euros (7 May 2004)
• Wife of former Enron chief financial officer pleading guilty to a tax charge misdemeanour (7 May 2004)
• The Cheating of America (6 May 2004)
• UK Treasury Minister grilled on corporate tax avoidance (5 May 2004)
• Tax havens attract UK parliamentary scrutiny (5 May 2004)
• 30 leading UK companies are facing tax investigation (5 May 2004)
• UK Revenue widens inquiry into tax avoidance schemes designed by accounting firms (5 May 2004)
• Consequences of tax avoidance: UK Student debt up by 10% (5 May 2004)
• BAE chairman named in 'slush fund' files (5 May 2004)
• Grant Thornton surrenders names of 300 tax shelter clients to US Internal Revenue Service (5 May 2004)
• US judge orders KPMG to name tax shelter clients (5 May 2004)
• UK Arms firm's £60m slush fund  (4 May 2004)
• Tax avoidance 'robs public services' (4 May 2004)
• Wisconsin cracking down on banks (4 May 2004)
• Grant Thornton and BDO Stoy Hayward sold tax avoidance scheme that has been denounced by UK ministers (4 May 2004)
• El Paso might have overstated oil and gas reserves between 1999 and 2003 (4 May 2004)
• Paying for the social services - Thatcher's taxation legacy (4 May 2004)
• Advisers' tip-offs spur UK Revenue to act (3 May 2004)
• UK Tax collectors clash with 'aggressive avoidance promoter' (3 May 2004)
• E&Y tax avoidance scheme faces UK probe (3 May 2004)
• The State and the Global Economy (3 May 2004)
• Area accountants can't shelter names of clients from IRS (2 May 2004)
• The end of globalism (1 May 2004)
• Time for business transparency (1 May 2004)
  

April 2004

• 'The State and the Contradictions of the Knowledge-Driven Economy' (30 Apr 2004)
• US Judge orders law firm to give IRS names of 46 ex-clients (30 Apr 2004)
• The Significance of the City of London and its Implication for the Euro (30 Apr 2004)
• Globalisation and British Political Economy (30 Apr 2004)
• Cities, social movements and scale-politics in an era of globalisation (30 Apr 2004)
• HTML Version
• GLOBALISATION AND COUNTER-GLOBALISATION: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOUTH       (29 Apr 2004)
• The myth of "Globalization": The World Market as an Objective Constraint (30 Apr 2004)
• The State, Property Relations and Social Transformation (30 Apr 2004)
• The Spin Doctor Is In: Examining Corporate PR at Bechtel (29 Apr 2004)
• Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report will be launched in New York (29 Apr 2004)
• Read the Social Watch Report
• A new approach to poverty. Why are some people rich in Brazil? (29 Apr 2004)
• Australians say 'good on yer mate' to departing Murdoch (29 Apr 2004)
• Communication Technology and the Retreat of the State (29 Apr 2004)
• GLOBALIZATION AND A WELFARE STATE (28 Apr 2004)
• After Enron:Unity Platform on Corporate Accountability (28 Apr 2004)
• Corporations and Human Rights (28 Apr 2004)
• Iraq war would cost the British taxpayer £6bn (28 Apr 2004)
• EU accession could increase money laundering threat (28 Apr 2004)
• WTO rules American cotton subsidy illegal (28 Apr 2004)
• RBG pair who secretly controlled brassplate firms must pay £200m (28 Apr 2004)
• California tax amnesty brings in $838 million (27 Apr 2004)
• Leasing plan seen as scam to evade taxes (27 Apr 2004)
• United States, Britain, Canada and Australia  to form international taskforce to fight tax avoidance (26 Apr 2004)
• UK regulator confirms investigation into "Shell" (26 Apr 2004)
• €600 million flees Isle of Man (25 Apr 2004)
• Tax cheats face worldwide war (24 Apr 2004)
• UK Regulator  Probing Shell Reserves Downgrade (24 Apr 2004)
• UK Parliament report on the Budget is concerned about tax avoidance (24 Apr 2004)
• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis   (23 Apr 2004)
  
• Good Corporate Citizenship: Myth or Reality? (23 Apr 2004)
• LIBERALISM, MARXISM, AND POSTSTRUCTURALISM:THEORIES OF GOVERNANCE (23 Apr 2004)
• NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE: CERTIFICATION REGIMES AS SOCIAL REGULATIONS OF THE GLOBAL MARKET (23 Apr 2004)
• Theories of Governance and New Public Management: Links to Understanding Welfare Policy Implementation (23 Apr 2004)
• Empire of Governance (23 Apr 2004)
• INSIDE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: NEW BORDERS OF A CONCEPT (23 Apr 2004)
• Globalization in the  Contemporary World: Wither the Nation State (23 Apr 2004)
• Multi-Level Governance Beyond the Nation State: The End of Legitimate Democratic Politics (23 Apr 2004)
• Shifts in Governance (23 Apr 2004)
• "Can There be a Global Society?" (23 Apr 2004)
• Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience (23 Apr 2004)
• Community governance and local government: a shoe that fits or the emperor’s new clothes? (23 Apr 2004)
• Shifts in Governance: Problems of Legitimacy and Accountability (23 Apr 2004)
• ICANN and Non-Territorial Sovereignty:Government Without the Nation State (23 Apr 2004)
• Global Change in Governance and Sovereignty (23 Apr 2004)
• From government to governance: Political steering in modern societies (23 Apr 2004)
• Saddam cronies grew rich on cash meant for the starving (22 Apr 2004)
• Saddam Hussein diverted huge sums from the £60 billion United Nations oil-for-food programme (22 Apr 2004)
• Tax inspectors raid YUKOS office (22 Apr 2004)
• Tax police raid oil giant Yukos (22 Apr 2004)
• Volcafé saves on tax payments at the expense of developing countries (21 Apr 2004)
• How Big Business Evades Taxes (21 Apr 2004)
• Damning report shows Shell hid reserves shortfalls (20 Apr 2004)
• Shell admits it misled investors (20 Apr 2004)
• Shell executives hid shortfall for years (20 Apr 2004)
• Labour Market Institutions, Taxation and the Underground Economy (19 Apr 2004)
• Tax Me If You Can: Leasing the Sewers (19 Apr 2004)
• Tax avoidance is costing the US $310 billion a year (19 Apr 2004)
• Capital offences: If the corporations coughed up the taxes they owe, we wouldn't have any government borrowing (18 Apr 2004)
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development failing to combat corruption (18 Apr 2004)
• Britain wastes more than £200 million a year in subsidies to arms manufacturers (18 Apr 2004)
• Moscow court freezes Yukos assets (16 Apr 2004)
• Brussels stirs state aid furore by querying BT's rates bill (16 Apr 2004)
• Mississippi says WorldCom owes $1 bln in taxes (16 Apr 2004)
• Conference of Religious in Ireland urges government to increase taxes (16 Apr 2004)
• Irish Revenue monitors affairs of 343 firms (15 Apr 2004)
• KPMG turns over names of two tax shelter holders (15 Apr 2004)
• Irish govt urged to close wealth gap (14 Apr 2004)
• UK authorities publish guidance on registering tax avoidance schemes (14 Apr 2004)
• Shell Game (13 Apr 2004)
• Names of tax-shelter clients sought from insurers (13 Apr 2004)
• Despite avoidance tax audits of US corporations decline (13 Apr 2004)
• 3 Plead Guilty in Computer Associates Case (13 Apr 2004)
• US Insurance companies subpoenaed in tax crackdown (13 Apr 2004)
• MCI: States using "abusive" tactics in tax fight (12 Apr 2004)
• Parmalat probe focuses on Deloitte Italy (12 Apr 2004)
• Deloitte May Have Concealed Parmalat Irregularities (11 Apr 2004)
• The Corporate Tax Dodge (10 Apr 2004)
• Offshore dodgers may escape Irish Revenue (9 Apr 2004)
• How Big US Business Evades Taxes (9 apr 2004)
• US Justice Department files suit to halt fake church tax shelters (9 Apr 2004)
• UK publishes its Finance Bill, including proposals for curbing tax avoidance (9 Apr 2004)
• Corporate tax shelters lighten our wallets (8 Apr 2004)
• US Senate Proposes New Measure To Combat Leasing Tax Shelter (8 Apr 2004)
• Jersey Chamber Of Commerce Doubtful About Island Sales Tax (8 Apr 2004)
• Global Corruption Report 2004 (8 Apr 2004)
• Two-thirds of US corporates paid no taxes during profits boom (7 Apr 2004)
• UK regulator fines Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich £150,000 for money laundering rule breaches (7 Apr 2004)
• News Corp prepares to move to US (6 Apr 2004)
• IMF, World Bank Move Against Laundering (6 Apr 2004)
• UK.biz ignores money laundering rules (6 Apr 2004)
• Lloyds TSB under fire in money-laundering case (6 Apr 2004)
• More than 60 percent of U.S. corporations didn't pay any federal taxes for 1996 through 2000 (6 Apr 2004)
• Read the 39 page report
• IMF urges lessons be drawn from Parmalat scandal (6 Apr 2004)
• Theology of Taxation (5 Apr 2004)
• UK regulator fines Morgan Grenfell £190000 for programme trade failings (5 Apr 2004)
• ‘I invested £1,500 and I got back this’ - pitfalls of split-capital trusts (3 Apr 2004)
• Chasing the UK tax cheats (3 Apr 2004)
• Most US Firms Pay No Income Tax (3 Apr 2004)
• Vodafone tax dispute may end in court (2 Apr 2004)
• Vodafone defends tax plan that saved £15m (1 Apr 2004)

March 2004

• A View of Globalization from the Cayman Islands (31 Mar 2004)
  
• EC Bans Gibraltar from Cutting Corporate Taxes (31 Mar 2004)
• Vodafone targeted over UK tax avoidance (31 Mar 2004)
• Britain in Euro Row over Gibraltar Tax Laws (30 Mar 2004)
• Information on US Federal contractors with offshore subsidiaries - March 2004 Report HTML version (29 Mar 2004)
• Information on US Federal contractors with offshore subsidiaries - March 2004 Report PDF version (29 Mar 2004)
• International Taxation: Information on Federal Contractors with offshore subsidiaries (29 Mar 2004) 
• Tax crisis for Italian football (29 Mar 2004)
• The areas that make UK tax system unique are the ones ripe for reform (29 Mar 2004)
• Ireland Offshore probe could net a billion (28 Mar 2004)
• An Insider Spills the Beans on Offshore Banking Centers (28 Mar 2004)
  
• Tax Avoidance Inc: Corporations today believe they owe it to their stockholders to minimize business taxes any way they can (28 Mar 2004)
• An Insider Spills the Beans on Offshore Banking Centers (28 Mar 2004)
• BAT in clear after an unpublsihed tobacco smuggling inquiry (27 Mar 2004)
• Targeting tax Cheats (27 Mar 2004)
• EU insists on $45bn-a-year (£25bn) support for farmers (27 Mar 2004)
• Plundering politicians and bribing multinationals undermine economic development, says Transparency International (26 Mar 2004)
• Suharto, Marcos and Mobuto head corruption table with $50bn scams (26 Mar 2004)
• U.K. Tax-Avoidance Clampdown Ends Couples' Dividend-Split Ploy (26 Mar 2004)
• Former Dynegy executive jailed for 24 years after $300m fraud (26 Mar 2004)
• 15,000 Parmalat jobs face the axe (26 Mar 2004)
• Private army mercenaries operate from companies in tax havens (25 Mar 2004)
• Race to the Bottom: Corporate tax rates decline - long file (25 Mar 2004)
• Half of all international shipping is carried out under "flags of convenience" (25 Mar 2004)
• Fix economy by targeting tax cheats (25 Mar 2004)
• UK Tax avoidance fines are branded 'laughable' (25 Mar 2004)
• Irish Offshore tax haul could hit €250m (25 Mar 2004)
• Pay Your Taxes! Corporate Social Responsibility and the Mining Industry in Chile (25 Mar 2004)
• Oil firms secretly finance crooked regimes (25 Mar 2004)
• Oil and mining companies accused of abetting the vast misappropriation of public funds in the developing world (24 Mar 2004)
• Read “Time for Transparency” (92 pages ) published by Global Witness
• SEC under attack over Shell (23 Mar 2004)
• Private Monopolies, Public Betrayal (23 Mar 2004)
• Corporate Governance: "Other People's Money" (23 Mar 2004)
• US Banks sued over "prepays" in Enron scandal (23 Mar 2004)
• Thousands of US tax returns to go to India for processing (23 Mar 2004)
• OECD Announces Further Progress in Eliminating Harmful Tax Practices (23 Mar 2004)
• Air NZ Says May Face Up To NZ$107M In Extra Tax (22 Mar 2004)
• OECD 2004 Progress Report on Harmful Tax Practices (22 Mar 2004)
• Liechtenstein's Tax Ratio Calculated For First Time (22 Mar 2004)
• Current state of Tax Progress In EU (22 Mar 2004)
• Moore Stephens distance themselves from their tax partner (22 Mar 2004)
• Dodgy taxes (20 Mar 2004)
• Serbian tycoon sues Soros outfit for alleged arms trafficking and money launderin g (21 Mar 2004)
• The Shell debacle infects four FTSE company bosses (21 Mar 2004)
• War on tax avoiders will help consumers (21 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche subpoenaed over tax shelter case (20 Mar 2004)
• Lawyers cast doubt on UK tax shelter crackdown (20 Mar 2004)
• Profiteering firms 'unpunished' over Congo war (20 Mar 2004)
• US bankruptcy court judge halts payments to WorldCom accountants KPMG (20 Mar 2004)
• SEC gets tough on companies hindering investigations (20 Mar 2004)
• Energy industry gets away with murky accounting practices (20 Mar 2004)
• Putin pledges sweeping Russian tax reform (19 Mar 2004)
• UK Treasury springs tax avoidance trap (19 Mar 2004)
• Crisis deepens at Shell: further 500m barrels of oil are reclassified (19 Mar 2004)
• UK government urged to keep tax loophole pledge (19 Mar 2004)
• UK accountants moan about crackdown on tax avoidance (19 Mar 2004)
• Complex tax avoidance schemes are rarely ethical (19 Mar 2004)
• "No matter what legislation is in place, the accountants and lawyers will find a way around it. Rules are rules, but rules are meant to be broken", says Moore Stephens partner (18 Mar 2004)
• Accountants ask the UK government to go easy as tax loopholes are targeted (18 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche role in the $3.2 billion tax breaks for Boeing (18 Mar 2004)
• North Carolina Companies Are Using Suspect Tax Shelters (18 Mar 2004)
• Parmalat Founder, Bank of America and Deloitte Indicted (18 Mar 2004)
• Italian Prosecutors Seek 29 Indictments in Parmalat Scandal (18 Mar 2004)
• Italy aims to speed Parmalat case (18 Mar 2004)
• Mannesmann–Vodafone Six trial unravels after weak testimony from KPMG (18 Mar 2004)
• Ireland Revenue begins pursuit of ‘offshore’ tax dodgers (17 Mar 2004)
• U.S. Investigation into Shell May Lead to Charges (17 Mar 2004)
• Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: Building the Links (17 Mar 2004)
• Hollinger could run into a fresh legal row over the filing of its annual accounts (16 Mar 2004)
• Hollinger Int misses deadline over accounts (16 Mar 2004)
• World Bank corruption inquiry may blacklist firm (16 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte Failed to Challenge $7 Billion Loan to Parmalat Unit          (16 Mar 2004)
• Re-evaluating the Numbers (16 Mar 2004)
• £13bn legal loophole to be closed by UK government (15 Mar 2004)
• Ex-owner of some Days Inn hotels sentenced for tax fraud (15 Mar 2004)
• Judicial Doctrines Relevant To Tax Fraud Schemes (14 Mar 2004)
• Evaluating Aggressive Tax Strategies: A Methodology in Light of New Court Cases (14 Mar 2004)
• UK regulator probes scandal of 'missing' Shell reserves (14 Mar 2004)
• The Smell of Money: British Columbia's Gas Rush (14 Mar 2004)
• UK Treasury targets Big Four accountancy firm tax teams (13 Mar 2004)
• UK government hits at 'aggressive' tax avoidance advice (12 Mar 2004)
• US corporate income taxes accountfor 7.4 percent of federal tax receipts, down from a post-war peak of 32 percent in 1952 (12 Mar 2004)
• Warren Buffett urges higher corporate taxes (13 Mar 2004)
• Shipbuilders receive €100m EU subsidy (13 Mar 2004)
• Ireland Revenue Commissioners Collect EUR9 Million In Offshore Crackdown (12 Mar 2004)
• UK government to tackle  VAT CATS (12 Mar 2004)
• UK govt hits at 'aggressive' tax avoidance advice (12 Mar 2004)
• UK govt plans clamp on tax dodgers (11 Mar 2004)
• EU redoubles pressure on Switzerland in tax standoff (11 Mar 2004)
• Swiss freeze 'stolen' Yukos cash (11 Mar 2004)
• ImClone sues jailed boss over tax (11 Mar 2004)
• UK govt plans tax clampdown (11 Mar 2004)
• A History of Corporate Rule and Popular Protest (10 Mar 2004)
• Tax havens exploited by US businesses (10 Mar 2004)
• Many US govt contractors use tax havens to avoid taxes (10 Mar 2004)
• EU Tells Switzerland to Fight Tax Evasion (10 Mar 2004)
• Toyota Australia Denies $736 Million Tax Bill for Shifting Profits in Transfer Pricing deals (10 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte & Touche Executives Targeted in Tax Evasion Probe (10 Mar 2004)
• Parmalat recovery plan on hold as banks balk (10 Mar 2004)
• US Senators Expand Leasing Tax Shelters Probe (9 Mar 2004)
• J.P. Morgan Facing Heat of Patriot Act (9 Mar 2004)
• ExxonMobil emits 20.3 billion tonnes (or 5% of the world total) of carbon dioxide (9 Mar 2004)
• US Dept of Justice Names KPMG Employees as Subjects in Tax Shelter Probe (9 Mar 2004)
• Dallas Law Firm to Pay $75 Million in Settlement of Tax Shelter Dispute (9 Mar 2004)
• Call for inquiry into BAE payments (9 Mar 2004)
• BAE's secret vault in Geneva uncovered (8 Mar 2004)
• Proposals for building a democratic future (8 Mar 2004)
• Deloitte accused of tax evasion (8 Mar 2004)
• Barclays' insurance hideaway: Dublin move avoided scrutiny of tactics in selling lucrative loan protection (8 Mar 2004)
• KPMG Partners, Employees Probed (8 Mar 2004)
• Abramovich facing huge back-tax bill (8 Mar 2004)
• Italy's Parmalat Probe Looks to Bank of America in London (8 Mar 2004)
• Now Shell faces US legal storm (7 Mar 2004)
• Forgers beat whisky tax with holograms (7 Mar 2004)
• Russia accuses Deloitte of fraud (6 Mar 2004)
• Switzerland returns Abacha deposit to Nigeria (6 Mar 2004)
• KPMG Tax-Shelter Probe Grows as 30 'Subjects' Classified (5 Mar 2004)
• Ericsson Auditor Resigned After Tax Probe Questioning (5 Mar 2004)
• Ericsson auditor quits, says books are clean (5 Mar 2004)
• Bribery Case Rocks Timor Treaty (5 Mar 2004)
  
• Navajo Nation as America's Swiss banker? (4 Mar 2004)
• Moscow accuses second oil giant of tax evasion (4 Mar 2004)
• ChevronTexaco speaks with a forked tongue: Avoids taxes but basks in Corporate Responsibility Initiative (4 Mar 2004)
• U.S. seeks law firm's client list in tax-shelter case (4 Mar 2004)
• Tax Shelters and Economic Substance (3 Mar 2004)
• Oceanic Exploration Files Suit Alleging Bribery Against ConocoPhillips and Commercial Authorities Established by the Governments of Australia, Indonesia and East Timor (2 Mar 2004)
  
• Haven or Hell: US IRS wants to crack down on multinational corporations that abuse transfer pricing (1 Mar 2004)
  
• EU JOINT TRANSFER PRICING FORUM (1 Mar 2004)

• US mulls NAB, KPMG criminal charges (29 Feb 2004)
• Book Review: “The Crisis of Global Capitalism,” by George Soros (28 Feb 2004)
  
• George Soros, Postmodern Villain (28 Feb 2004)
• KPMG subject of US federal of tax probe (27 Feb 2004)

• Eliot Spitzer Profile: Here's For More Tilting at Windmills (27 Feb 2004)
  
• Phone group takes bonus scheme to Lords (26 Feb 2004)
  
• KPMG acknowledges breaching US corporate rules in dealing with the National Australia Bank (27 Feb 2004)
• United Kingdom: Tax Shelters and Economic Substance (26 Feb 2004)
• Grand Jury Investigating KPMG Tax Shelters (23 Feb 2004)
• Ernst & Young says Parmalat Capital low on cash (21 Feb 2004)
• US probes former KPMG tax schemes (21 Feb 2004)
• Ireland Revenue pursuing offshore account holders (20 Feb 2004)
• KPMG says tax work probed by US Justice Dept (20 Feb 2004)
• Many large Russian firms benefit from transfer pricing by employing trading companies to avoid taxation (19 Feb 2004)
  
• Illionois fight against corporate foreign tax havens (19 Feb 2004)
• KPMG is "shameless", says US Senator Carl Levin (19 Feb 2004)
  
• Accounting firms, legal firms and bankers devise tax avoidance schemes (18 Feb 2004)
• Harrods claims WSJ 'Enron' libel (17 Feb 2004)
• Globalisation: the poverty gap (17 Feb 2004)
• U.S. defence firms dodging $3 billion in taxes (17 Feb 2004)
• £6m tax threat to Phones4U founder (16 Feb 2004)
• UK considers  action British American Tobacco over allegations that it orchestrated cigarette smuggling (16 Feb 2004)
• John Kerry, US Democrat presidential hopeful, promises a crackdown on Britain's tax havens (15 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat investigators probe Swiss bank account (15 Feb 2004)
• UK Revenue  chief to quit after years of sniping (15 Feb 2004)
• £6m tax threat to Phones4U founder (15 Feb 2004)
  
• Offshore scam used IRS shelter 'under our noses' (13 Feb 2004)
• Barclays Bank profits soar to £3.8bn ( 13 Feb 2004)
• UK Lottery cash 'subsidises arts for rich' (13 Feb 2004)
• EU to target offshore centres after Parmalat (13 Feb 2004)
• U.S. Virgin Islands  a haven for  tax cheats (13 Feb 2004)
• CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS: RECIDIVIST LAW VIOLATORS (12 Feb 2004)
• Operation Sweatshop Iraq (12 Feb 2004)
• Prominent Italian industrialists arrested in anti-fraud drive (12 Feb 2004)
• Film industry objects to UK tax clampdown (12 Feb 2004)
• Australia investigates foreign trusts for tax avoidance (12 Feb 2004)
• No further concessions for Switzerland on savings tax (12 Feb 2004)
• SEC seeks budget of  US$913 million whilst UK regulators work on a shoestring (11 Feb 2004)
• Seven banks probed in Parmalat scandal (11 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat has debts of £855m in Brazil           (11 Feb 2004)
• UK government closes partnership tax avoidance loophole (11 Feb 2004)
• US IRS Collects $170 Million Hidden Offshore (11 Feb 2004)
• Behind the Corporate Veil: Using Corporate Entities for Illicit purposes (10 Feb 2004)
• OECD Recommendation on Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service  (10 Feb 2004)
• Fighting Corruption: What Role for Civil Society? The Experience of the OECD  (10 Feb 2004)
• Bribery Convention: Update on steps taken by countries to implement the Convention (10 Feb 2004)
• Anti-corruption instruments and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (10 Feb 2004)
• UK Museums fight to keep tax loophole (9 Feb 2004)
• China's banking watchdog announces probe into loans (9 Feb 2004)
• Big banks are on the gravy train: Richard Murphy speaks (9 Feb 2004)
• Church Says Tax Avoidance Is Theft (9 Feb 2004)
• US approaches UK on internet bets prohibition (9 Feb 2004)
• Irish Revenue powers  offer little on how to tackle tax evasion (9 Feb 2004)
• Dirty Dozen' tax scams resurface every year in the US (9 Feb 2004)
• Cost of globalization: workers who are flexible, cheap, expendable (9 Feb 2004)
• UK retailers blamed for rise in slave labour (9 Feb 2004)
• Read the Oxfam Report
• UK Mobile firms seek £4bn VAT refund (9 Feb 2004)
• UK Taxman closes loophole on City bonuses (8 Feb 2004)
• US IRS auditing to get tougher under new boss (8 Feb 2004)
• US fund demands shake-up at Shell (8 Feb 2004)
• Robbers are everywhere (7 Feb 2004)
• Nobody is called to account (6 Feb 2004)
• Russian Oil Exec Convicted of Tax Evasion (6 Feb 2004)
• Irish Revenue to use new powers for offshore tax inquiries (6 Feb 2004)
• Irish Revenue to get new offshore powers after review (6 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat Bank Documents Ordered Seized (6 Feb 2004)
• Italian offices of Swiss bank UBS searched in Parmalat affair (6 Feb 2004)
• UK to investigate £280 million whisky duty fraud (6 Feb 2004)
• UK House of Lords discusses Tax Evasion  and Tax Havens (5 Feb 2004)
• Ex-Yukos Exec Found Guilty of Tax Evasion (5 Feb 2004)
• Tax Avoidance Is Theft, Says Orthodox Church (5 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat lawyers removed documents (5 Feb 2004)
• Swiss to quiz Parmalat over money laundering (5 Feb 2004)
• U.S. fund launches suit against Black, Hollinger, KPMG (4 Feb 2004)
• INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION OF UK LAW OF CORRUPTION (4 Feb 2004)
• INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES TO COMBAT CORRUPTION (4 Feb 2004)
• Anti-Terrorism, Crime And Security Act 2001 and its provisions for dealing with BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION (4 Feb 2004)
• PROPOSED COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION ON COMBATING CORRUPTION IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR (4 Feb 2004)
• New UK legislation on bribery and corruption is included in the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (4 Feb 2004)
• RAISING STANDARDS AND UPHOLDING INTEGRITY: THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION IN THE UK (4 Feb 2004)
• A note on the UK law relating to bribery and corruption in international business (4 Feb 2004)
• Former Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce executive charged with fraud (4 Feb 2004)
• SEC  charges  former Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Managing Director for fraud (4 Feb 2004)
• US Auto Dealers Accused of "Widespread Corruption" (4 Feb 2004)
• Market timing scandal in US hurts Amvescap (4 Feb 2004)
• ANTI-CORRUPTION INITIATIVE IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING INDUSTRY (3 Feb 2004)
• “OUR RESISTANCE IS AS GLOBAL AS YOUR OPPRESSION” Multinational corporations, protest movements and the future of global governance (3 Feb 2004)
• Ryanair must pay £3.5m to EC (3 Feb 2004)
• Traditional Tax Havens May Lose Sheen (3 Feb 2004)
• Coca-Cola pays additional A$50 million to settle Australian tax dispute (3 Feb 2004)
• Parmalat simply sent its invoices out twice (3 Feb 2004)
• Analyst discusses role of board in NAB scandal (3 Feb 2004)
• A Spotlight on Deutsche Bank's Tax Shelter Role (2 Feb 2004)
• HealthSouth investigated for kickbacks (2 Feb 2004)
• Justice Department Launches Kickback Probe of HealthSouth (2 Feb 2004)
• South Africa Tax Change to Unlock Millions Held Abroad (2 Feb 2004)
• Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade (2 Feb 2004)
• Novel tax avoidance scheme: Why Joe Bloggs couldn't lose (1 Feb 2004)
• Governments around the world are scrabbling for scarce corporate taxes (1 Feb 2004)
• Abramovich faces legal threat from Yukos over broken deal (1 Feb 2004)

January 2004

• Italy seeks to bring G7 onboard on tax haven reform (31 Jan 2004)
• Transfer pricing and corporate taxes (31 Jan 2004)
• Winning and Losing in the Global Economy: The Case of the OECD's Harmful Tax Competition (31 Jan 2004)
• Russians audit boss of Chelsea (31 Jan 2004)
• Don't Be Taken In By Tax Scams (30 Jan 2004)
• Switzerland Reaches Agreement With OECD Over Tax Questions (30 Jan 2004)
• EU offers little respite to U.S. over sanctions (30 Jan 2004)
• KPMG Names New Tax Team in US (30 Jan 2004)
• California rejects bill to close tax loophole on offshore companies (30 Jan 2004)
• Virgin revolution: the Branson brand is fully loaded for global expansion (30 Jan 2004)
• The value of the Virgin Empire controlled by Richard Branson (30 Jan 2004)
• Virgin Mobile, the company that resuscitated Richard Branson's business reputation (30 Jan 2004)
• Gold Fields not in a position to pay tax (30 Jan 2004)
• Italy seeks solution to corporate scandals (30 Jan 2004)
• Transfer Pricing excesses as governments around the world are scrabbling for scarce corporate taxes (29 Jan 2004)
• Fighting corruption; What role for civil society? The experience of the OECD (29 Jan 2004)
• Corruption and Energy Efficiency in OECD Countries: Theory and Evidence (29 Jan 2004)
• Britain’s Terror Factory: Institutional Corruption and Human Rights Abuses (29 Jan 2004)
• U.S. Government Initiatives to Fight Corruption (29 Jan 2004)
• A taxing  battle (29 Jan 2004)
  
• A taxing battle over transfer pricing and globalization (29 Jan 2004)
• Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Country Reviews (29 Jan 2004)
• THE OECD ANTI-CORRUPTION TREATY: WHY IS IT NEEDED, HOW WILL IT WORK? (29 Jan 2004)
• MAKING THE OECD INITIATIVE AGAINST CORRUPTION WORK (29 Jan 2004)
• ChevronTexaco Corp sues US Internal Revenue Service for $118.6 million tax refund (29 Jan 2004)
• E2.5bn moved out of Parmalat (29 Jan 2004)
• WorldCom, Under Fire Itself, Could Sue KPMG, Smith Barney, Andersen (29 Jan 2004)
• Exxon to Pay Alaskans $6.75BN for Oil Spill (29 Jan 2004)
• Accounting firms face tough time from US tax enforcers (29 Jan 2004)
• Ryanair to repay sweeteners (28 Jan 2004)
• Warrants issued for 10 Yukos men (28 Jan 2004)
• US Senate "Oversight Hearing on Mutual Funds: Hidden Fees, Misgovernance and Other Practices that Harm Investors" (27 Jan 2004)
• Mutual Funds Disclosures could increase Transparency of Fees and other practices
• Conflict of interests is rampant in the mutual funds industry
• Eliot L. Spitzer Attorney General , New York State Attorney General
• Securities Industry Association defends its conduct
• Paul Stevens  On Behalf of the Investment Company Institute
• Peter Scannell  Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts
• James Nesfield, Nesfield Capital
• John C. Bogle Founder and Former CEO , The Vanguard Group
• Statement by Jeffrey Keil , Board Analysis Services, Lipper, Inc
• Consumer Federation of America
• U.S. SEC chief hints at 'enablement' by Parmalat's banks as fraud grows (27 Jan 2004)
• Rogue trades hit Australian bank (27 Jan 2004)
• Kerry pledges to end island's 'creed of greed' within 500 days (27 Jan 2004)
• Final WorldCom report: Many to blame (27 Jan 2004)
• Citigroup faces WorldCom action (27 Jan 2004)
• KMPG defends tax work on former WorldCom (27 Jan 2004)
• KPMG accused of helping WorldCom avoid tax (27 Jan 2004)
• Report Criticizes WorldCom Tax Shelters Designed by KPMG (27 Jan 2004)
• Read the 500 page report
• Bank of England denies botching BCCI role (26 Jan 2004)
• Corporate giants sue UK government act over 'unfair' UK taxes (26 Jan 2004)
• Shell sued over 'shocking' cut (26 Jan 2004)
• Shake-up at top of 'tax-dodging' KPMG (25 Jan 2004)
• Tax shelter curbs sought- New U.S. attack on corporate loopholes (25 Jan 2004)
• Hedge fund passport gets green light (25 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat saga points to murky world of tax havens (25 Jan 2004)
• The grand illusion of corporate social responsibility (24 Jan 2004)
• Halliburton admits $6m kickbacks (24 Jan 2004)
• Yukos Hit With New Tax Evasion Charge (24 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat and creditors joust for offshore subsidiaries (24 Jan 2004)
• Investigations mount into National Australia Bank currency scandal (23 Jan 2004)
• 12 US states target abusive tax shelters (23 Jan 2004)
• Head of YUKOS-related refinery arrested over tax evasion (23 Jan 2004)
• International comparisons of corporate profitability (22 Jan 2004)
• Who gives wealthy men £1,000 a day each to subsidise their farms? - the British taxpayer (22 Jan 2004)
• Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defiant over corruption probe (22 Jan 2004)
• Corporate Social responsibility reports are just a PR tool for businesses, says report (22 Jan 2004)
• Read the Christian Aid Report
• Shell accused of abusing tax scheme (22 Jan 2004)
• Shell 'abuses' Nigerian tax scheme (22 Jan 2004)
• UK regulator eases up on money laundering fight (21 Jan 2004)
• UK Prime Minister running scared of accountants and tax avoidance industry (21 Jan 2004)
• UK House of Lords questions on Offshore Financial Centres (21 Jan 2004)
• Canada’s PM under fire for using tax havens (21 Jan 2004)
• Goldman Sachs bankers failed to notice trusted employee siphoning millions from personal accounts (21 Jan 2004)
• So how corrupt is the private sector? (20 Jan 2004)
• Abbey extricates itself from Jersey 'strangles' (20 Jan 2004)
• Irish Revenue to launch new tax haven bank probe (20 Jan 2004)
• Underwriting Corruption:Britain's Role in Promoting Corruption, Cronyism and Graft (19 Jan 2004)
• Few US executives with large loans from their companies had made much effort to repay them (19 Jan 2004)
• Adecco accounts hole 'not fraud' (19 Jan 2004)
• BT moves to cut tax bill by £300m (19 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat suspects taken to "rebuild" accounts (19 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat probe to include auditing firms (19 Jan 2004)
• KPMG's UK revenues for 2003 are £1,008 million (19 Jan 2004)
• KPMG has global income of US$12.16 billion for 2003 (19 Jan 2004)
• Adecco accounting gap estimated at 40-50 million Euros (19 Jan 2004)
• BT moves to cut tax bill by £300m (19 Jan 2004)
• UK Inland Revenue slated for £1bn 'schoolboy error' (18 Jan 2004)
• SEC begins legal action against Hollinger Int'l (18 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat probe widens to other Tanzi concerns (18 Jan 2004)
• Hollinger sues Conrad Black for $US200 million (18 Jan 2004)
• Globalization and the Work of Fiscal Termites (17 Jan 2004)
• Shorter version of the paper
• Parmalat lenders reveal exposure (17 Jan 2004)
• KPMG makes changes in tax unit (16 Jan 2004)
• Swiss banks say new dirty money rules won't work (16 Jan 2004)
• The Buying of the President 2004 (16 Jan 2004)
• LIFTING THE LID-Scandals show risks at far-flung operations (16 Jan 2004)
• UK government owns up to tax collection errors (15 Jan 2004)
• Globalization, Tax Competition, and the Fiscal Viability of the Welfare State             (15 Jan 2004)
• Canada Steamship Lines is headquartered in Barbados and pays roughly 2% corporate income tax rate (15 Jan 2004)
• EU offers new proposals for onshore hedge funds (15 Jan 2004)
• Mutual fund kickbacks (15 Jan 2004)
• Enron 'mastermind' pleads guilty (15 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat debacle predicted to cost Italian economy €11bn (15 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat's money trail leads to the Netherlands (15 Jan 2004)
• Globalisation and Tax Systems: Implications for Developing Countries with Particular Reference to Southeat Asia (15 Jan 2004)
• Tax Avoidance activities of US Multinational Corporations (15 Jan 2004)
• Bermuda or Bust: Tax Havens and Corporate Accountability (15 Jan 2004)
• UK Watchdog fines Bank of Scotland for breach of moeny laundering regulations (15 Jan 2004)
• Former Enron power couple pleads guilty to conspiracy, tax evasion (15 Jan 2004)
• Pursuing tax cheating companies would help UK citizens (14 Jan 2004)
• Enron economics shift tax burden to the little guy (14 Jan 2004)
• Court papers reveal Parmalat's deliberate disguise of Cayman fund (14 Jan 2004)
• Tax shake-up means trouble in Portugal for expats (14 Jan 2004)
• Target fraud UK taxman told (14 Jan 2004)
• KPMG shuffles top managers in tax unit (13 Jan 2004)
• Tetra Pak investigates £47m 'sweeteners' to Parmalat founder (13 Jan 2004)
• Citigroup accuses Parmalat of forging notes (13 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat: Dubious banking helped (13 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat had debt of 13.5 billion euros: former finance head (13 Jan 2004)
• UK MPs say it's easy for tax cheats (13 Jan 2004)
• UK Inland Revenue attacked for fraud failures (13 Jan 2004)
• Read the Parliamentary Report
• Creativity of elite cheaters costs taxpayers billions (13 Jan 2004)
• Malta mentioned as one of Parmalat’s tax 'havens' (13 Jan 2004)
• Wachovia, Accountants KPMG Get Caught in Tax-Shelter Fallout (13 Jan 2004)
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• There is a culture of deception inside KPMG's tax practice, says US Senator Levin (12 Jan 2004)
  
• Adecco (Ernst & Young client) delays 2003 report, cites accounting issues (12 Jan 2004)
• Adecco S.A. Delays Announcement of FY 2003 Audited Results (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat Prosecutors Probe Money Transfers in Tax Havens (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat accountants' UK chief had central role in Barlow Clowes investment scandal (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat financial network reached into Switzerland (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat may have set up subsidiaries in Switzerland to hide debt (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat money may be in tax havens (12 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat tricked BoA, says former employee (12 Jan 2004)
• Swedish packing firm is linked to Parmalat (12 Jan 2004)
• US SENATOR COLEMAN APPLAUDS KPMG’S BOLD STEPS IN ADDRESSING MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR TAX SHELTER SCHEMES (12 Jan 2004)
  
• Tax havens flourishing (11 Jan 2004)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG  face apartheid lawsuits (11 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat: could it happen here? (11 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat collapse puts spotlight on tax havens (11 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat Chief Used Fleet to Curry Favor (11 Jan 2004)
• Slovakia to Become European Tax Haven (10 Jan 2004)
• UK government claims to have no statistics on offshore tax scams (9 Jan 2004)
• Australian cash heads for offshore tax havens (9 Jan 2004)
• Jersey and Switzerland implicated in the Goshutes scandal (9 Jan 2004)
• Accounting firms cooking the books and get away with it because they have too much power (9 Jan 2004)
• Financial shaky Standard Life (9 Jan 2004)
• Lawsuit: HealthSouth bankers, auditors knew of company fraud (9 Jan 2004)
• Lawsuit alleges that Ernst & Young and UBS Warburg knew HealthSouth Corp.'s massive accounting fraud (9 Jan 2004)
• Bush gets more support from financial sector (9 Jan 2004)
• Big financial firms, including Enron, become Bush’s top donors (9 Jan 2004)
• Ex-Enron aide stares at five-month jail (9 Jan 2004)
• Background On Enron, US Government Probe (9 Jan 2004)
• Bank of America and  Deloitte dragged into Parmalat inquiry (9 Jan 2004)
• Ninth arrest in Parmalat probe (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat probe net hits Canada: Deloitte expected to be removed as Canadian auditor (9 Jan 2004)
• Luxembourg investigates into suspected Parmalat money laundering connection (9 Jan 2004)
• Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority investigates Parmalat link (9 Jan 2004)
• Banks face action over Parmalat (9 Jan 2004)
• Ex-Grant Thornton Italy unit says expulsion unfair (9 Jan 2004)
• Grant Thornton International Expels Italian Unit; Parmalat Drops Auditor Deloitte (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat phone operator was 'chief' of 25 units (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat parent goes bankrupt, Grant Thornton axed (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat fraud probe widens to auditors, ex-banker (9 Jan 2004)
• Have U.S. firms shaped up? As trials loom, investors ask if fraud is lessening (9 Jan 2004)
• Options packages encourage execs to fiddle books (9 Jan 2004)
• Root of financial fraud is still mostly in place (9 Jan 2004)
• PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst &Young under scrutiny for promoting patent donations as a tax avoidance strategy (9 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat not a uniquely Italian mess (8 Jan 2003)
• 5.4bn Parmalat funds 'in US bank' (8 Jan 2003)
• Luxembourg opens Parmalat money laundering probe (8 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat Scandal Deepens; May Be Biggest Fraud Ever (8 Jan 2004)
• Glaxo hit by $5bn US tax demand (8 Jan 2004)
• Tax cheaters cost you billions (8 Jan 2004)
• Germany and Belgium have launched tax amnesties to recoup offshore funds (8 Jan 2004)
• US IRS serves summons on Credomatic of Florida Inc. (8 Jan 2004)
• United States tax collection agency can request records of tax evaders in The Bahamas (8 Jan 2004)
• Insider tips very big bucket on Yukos over tax dodges (8 Jan 2004)
• IBM Korea Scandal Prompts U.S. Inquiries  (7 Jan 2003)
• UK Business profit at four-year high but what about taxes (7 Jan 2004)
• Major Canadian firms have more than CAN$23 billion of assets in Barbados (7 Jan 2004)
• GlaxoSmithKline to contest tax claims (7 Jan 2004)
• GSK Receives US$2.7 billion Notice from IRS on Tax Allocation Dispute (7 Jan 2004)
• More cheats using Caribbean cover to beat taxes (7 Jan 2004)
• UK government gave 17 forward contracts to limit millionaire and company taxes (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat's ex-finance chief fingers founder (6 Jan 2004)
• UK Inland Revenue blunders saved Fayed millions (6 Jan 2004)
• Milberg Weiss Files Class Action Suit against Parmalat Finanziaria SpA's Senior Insiders and Its Legal, Accounting and Financial Advisors (6 Jan 2004)
• Ex-CFO: Parmalat fiddled the books everywhere (6 Jan 2004)
• Shareholder Suit/Parmalat: Seeking Class Action Status (6 Jan 2004) 
• More cheats using Caribbean cover to beat taxes (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat scandal embroils Citigroup (6 Jan 2004)
• Deloitte's role in Parmalat questioned by experts (6 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat, Enron reveal two opposing approaches to failure (5 Jan 2004)
• US, EU scandals go different ways (5 Jan 2004)
• Explosion in offshore web gamblers raises alarm (5 Jan 2004)
• US corporate tax revenues decline from 17% to 7% (5 Jan 2004)
• Tax shelters cost the US government $20 billion to $40 billion annually in lost revenue (5 Jan 2004)
• Corporate cheating is eating into US government collections (5 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat: US banks caught in spotlight (4 Jan 2004)
• Officials raid Parmalat lawyer's US office (4 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat : How much did the bankers know? (4 Jan 2004)
• Prosecutors sort pieces of a broken Parmalat mosaic (4 Jan 2004)
• Parmalat dream goes sour (4 Jan 2004)
• Rotten stench of Italy’s food scandal (3 Jan 2004)
• Airline Leasing Company Files Suit Over Tax Shelter (3 Jan 2004)
• 'No missing treasure' at Parmalat (3 Jan 2004)
• Transfer Pricing: Income Tax and Import Duty Fraud (2 Jan 2004)
  
• Argentina: Tax reform package targets international transactions and transfer pricing (2 Jan 2004)
  
• Italian Police take Deloitte tax papers in Parmalat case (2 Jan 2004)
• Merger of Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise heralds tough UK strategy on tax avoidance (2 Jan 2004)
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• Transfer Pricing in the United States – A Primer (1 Jan 2004)
  
• Yukos accused of dodging taxes (1 Jan 2004)
• Milking the company (1 Jan 2004)
• More arrests as Parmalat fraud scandal deepens (1 Jan 2004)
• How Parmalat Went Sour (1 Jan 2004)