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DECEMBER 2006

My first year in Government - what I have learnt by Jersey legislator Deputy Shona Pitman (31 Dec 2006)
Using tax subsidies to promote discrimination - the Heritage Foundation exposed (31 Dec 2006)
Vantis - another name for the hall of tax avoidance shame? (31 Dec 2006)
One Hand Launders the Other: how major western governments let big corporations & banks & other friends use offshore for bribery, tax evasion and other crimes (31 Dec 2006)
Tax Avoidance: Why 'French Elvis' seeks out the high life in Gstaad (31 Dec 2006)
Conrad Black Saga Wins 3rd Place In Canadian Press Poll Of Top Biz Stories (31 Dec 2006)
DaimlerChrysler: No comment on bribery probe (30 Dec 2006)
Why Kenya Today is Awash With Dirty Money (30 Dec 2006)
Dealing with parallel economy (30 Dec 2006)
Changes afoot in corporate America (30 Dec 2006)
Offshore tax loophole costs Canadians (30 Dec 2006)
Capital Solutions denies offering offshore banking services (30 Dec 2006)
Australia: Not such good cheer for those enamoured of split loans (30 Dec 2006)
BRITAIN'S biggest earners often move abroad or keep money in offshore accounts, avoiding paying tax (29 Dec 2006)
Italy's top court asked to rule on Berlusconi judge (29 Dec 2006)
Devaluing democracy - the offshore and bribery link (29 Dec 2006)
UK Tax burden 'will rise for 50 years' (28 Dec 2006)
Poisoned Russian linked to investigation of possible bribes by ex-Yukos official (27 Dec 2006)
'07 Date Set for KPMG Tax Case (26 Dec 2006)
PWC Faces Yukos Audit Tax Demand (26 Dec 2006)
Russian tax authorities have filed a suit against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) accusing it of producing a false audit at Yukos (26 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Decrying Big Business Bonuses, UK Liberals Call for Windfall Tax (26 Dec 2006)
Another Guilty Plea in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (26 Dec 2006)
UK Amnesty for offshore tax evaders (24 Dec 2006)
Tax Dodgers: At least the super-rich will vote for New Labour (24 Dec 2006)
UK £100 million Tax raid on stars’ charity scheme - Channel Islands implicated (24 Dec 2006)
Bono the Tax Dodger receives a Knighthood (24 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Siemens boss ‘knew about bribes three years ago’(24 Dec 2006)
Corruption: City attacks ending of BAE probe (24 Dec 2006)
Ireland: Compelling conclusions of €25m Haughey probe (24 Dec 2006)
Australia Court rules in favour of Lend Lease (24 Dec 2006)
Corruption: One of Britain's biggest institutional investors concerned about the decision to halt the BAE arms sales probe (23 Dec 2006)
UK Income tax bill hits record high (23 Dec 2006)
UK Families facing record tax burden (23 Dec 2006)
Boost wage: Building prosperity on backs of working poor is wrong (23 Dec 2006)
Siemens Corruption Scandal Deepens (23 Dec 2006)
China admits corruption is behind spate of deadly mine accidents (23 Dec 2006)
EU states bungle anti-money laundering laws, report says (23 Dec 2006)
EU money laundering law 'flawed' (22 Dec 2006)
California businessman pleaded guilty in connection with a criminal tax shelter fraud probe over tax shelters promoted KPMG executives (22 Dec 2006)
Judge refuses to split trial in mammoth US case on KPMG tax shelters (22 Dec 2006)
KPMG Tax Trial to Begin in September (22 Dec 2006)
Afghanistan's Drug Catastrophe and Tax Havens (22 Dec 2006)
'Disclosed' tax breaks lack public scrutiny, US report says (22 Dec 2006)
UK data shows that taxes on incomes are now equivalent to direct taxation at a rate of 23.6p in the pound (22 Dec 2006)
UK Revenue tackles gangs and cigarettes (22 Dec 2006)
Corruption and Transparency (21 Dec 2006)
China to accelerate standardization of corporate tax (21 Dec 2006)
Tax auditing of biggest US companies said to shrink (21 Dec 2006)
Canada Trusts won't give up on tax (21 Dec 2006)
Time to Tax Accountancy Bodies (20 Dec 2006)
We are fighting the use of so-called tax havens to evade tax through international cooperation on tax matters, says Norway minister (20 Dec 2006)
Norway: Government steps up fight against corruption (20 Dec 2006)

Read Details of Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs anti-corruption project

UK Taxman ratchets up disclosure regime pressure (20 Dec 2006)
Norfolk Island will maintain its status as a tax haven (20 Dec 2006)
Aussie company`s kickbacks tax deductible (20 Dec 2006)
IRELAND has the lowest level of direct taxation in the EU (20 Dec 2006)
Jersey tax haven is simply an offshore parasite (19 Dec 2006)
Jersey and its corrupt finance industry (19 Dec 2006)
Tax Justice Focus Vol. 2, No. 4 (19 Dec 2006)
Human Nature and Capitalism in Adam Smith and Karl Marx (19 Dec 2006)
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention (19 Dec 2006)
A GUIDE TO TAX WORK FOR NGOS (164 page report) (19 Dec 2006)
China uncovers money laundering (19 Dec 2006)
OECD Launches Project on Taxation of Collective Investment Vehicles (19 Dec 2006)
Poland: New consultation to counter tax non compliance published (19 Dec 2006)
FINANCE AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION (18 Dec 2006)
Ireland: Tax officials are to launch a major inquiry into foreign accounts belonging to Irish people (18 Dec 2006)
Australia: Senator blasts $450m tax break in Qantas sale (18 Dec 2006)
French 'tax holiday' criticised (18 Dec 2006)
How Backdating Share Options Helped US Executives Cut Their Taxes (18 Dec 2006)
CLOSE DOWN THE JERSEY TAX HAVEN (17 Dec 2006)
The Reality of Jersey: Attac & tax justice network in Jersey (17 Dec 2006)
UK 'VAT fraud cost £14bn since 2001' (17 Dec 2006)
Ireland: Companies face massive bill for Vat-avoidance (17 Dec 2006)
Money laundering fuels property boom (17 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Siemens the missing millions and the offshore links (17 Dec 2006)
Between £50m and £70m a year is claimed to have been channelled to the Abacha family by Siemens in the mid-1990s (17 Dec 2006)
Veteran French rocker escapes taxes (17 Dec 2006)
UK Hospitals and schools face tax bill shock (17 Dec 2006)
Migrant brickies hit by £250m stealth tax (17 Dec 2006)
Puny financial penalty on PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the Transtec audit failures (16 Dec 2006)
US needs to better monitor money laundering: report (16 Dec 2006)
Publicly traded companies reduced their U.S. taxable income by at least $34.8 billion in 2004 through potentially abusive tax transactions (16 Dec 2006)
US data suggest that tax gap is linked to understated net business income — underreported receipts and overstated expenses (16 Dec 2006)
Australia: Tax breaks for city farmers under fire (16 Dec 2006)
Major IT error at the UK Inland Revenue (16 Dec 2006)
UK 'National interest' halts BAE arms corruption inquiry (15 Dec 2006)
Timeline: BAE corruption probe (15 Dec 2006)
UK government has turned a blind eye to corporate misdemeanours too often (15 Dec 2006)
Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday a high profile backer of presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, is to become a tax exile in Switzerland (15 Dec 2006)
Nokia and Siemens postpone merger over corruption investigation (15 Dec 2006)
UK Government consultants not 'value for money' says NAO (15 Dec 2006)

Read the Full Report by the National Audit Office

Austin Mitchell and Prem Sikka on pensions and poverty (14 Dec 2006)
Simple measures can solve the pensions crisis (14 Dec 2006)
A European-wide deal to fight VAT fraud has come a step closer (14 Dec 2006)
UK wins reverse charge VAT agreement from France (14 Dec 2006)
South Africa Touts Its Offshore Charms (14 Dec 2006)
Ireland Revenue nets €31.6m in settlements (14 Dec 2006)
US DoJ's New Corporate Crime Policy: Cuff the Cops Instead (14 Dec 2006)
The Liechtenstein life assurance bond is not subject to the EU Savings Tax Directive (14 Dec 2006)
West Ham footballers controlled by offshore entities (14 Dec 2006)
Benelux: Haven sent (14 Dec 2006)
The Size Distribution of Firms, Cournot, and Optimal Taxation (14 Dec 2006)
European court rules against tax on foreign dividends (13 Dec 2006)
Ireland: Builders top list of latest tax defaulters (13 Dec 2006)
Nigeria suffers great loss from corruption in 40 years: official (13 Dec 2006)
Canada set to tackle tax havens (13 Dec 2006)
Corruption probe reaches ever higher at Siemens (13 Dec 2006)
Thirteen held in UK tax scam probe (13 Dec 2006)
Cadbury Schweppes case: Time for KPMG to smell the coffee (12 Dec 2006)
The deception services industry (12 Dec 2006)
Time to end Tax Havens and Reform Jersey (12 Dec 2006)
UK Revenue escapes with £400m tax hit (12 Dec 2006)
EU's top court rules against UK on taxation of foreign company dividends. (12 Dec 2006)
Mexican soft-drink makers protest proposed beverage tax increase (12 Dec 2006)
SEC believes there is strong statistical evidence that executives have manipulated the exercise dates of their options as part of a tax dodge (12 Dec 2006)
US Department of Justice to announce new policy on tax probes (12 Dec 2006)
Canada: Income trusts on way out (11 Dec 2006)
Films face Britishness test for tax breaks (11 Dec 2006)
Labour's 'tax dodge' on sale of UK HQ saved £210,000 stamp duty (11 Dec 2006)
Australia Money laundering watchdog gets more bite (11 Dec 2006)
Ethiopia argues trademark would give coffee growers an extra shot (11 Dec 2006)
How much does tax evasion cost the UK? Start at £75 billion (10 Dec 2006)
Tax Avoidence Rapes Public Revenue (10 Dec 2006)
Much of tax legislation is due to abuses: 41% - right or wrong? (10 Dec 2006)
Deputy Dave Jones (Guernsey) on Jersey's Ministerial Government (10 Dec 2006)
EU Tax ruling could cost UK £7bn (10 Dec 2006)
UK faces EU company tax bombshell (10 Dec 2006)
No news is bad news on tax (10 Dec 2006)
New study challenges conventional wisdom on income trusts (10 Dec 2006)
Wesley Snipes in court on tax fraud charges (10 Dec 2006)
Nepal's God king pays tax for first time (9 Dec 2006)
Trusts seen dwindling (9 Dec 2006)
Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One motor racing tycoon, and John Magnier, the Irish horse racing magnate, are among a record 118 Swiss franc billionaires (9 Dec 2006)
82% tax raid on UK pensions (9 Dec 2006)
Mark Thatcher hits rock bottom (the Rock of Gibraltar, that is) (9 Dec 2006)
Air Holland boss guilty of money laundering (9 Dec 2006)
World Bank report faults Africa efforts to combat corruption but no reflections on its own role (9 Dec 2006)
Political parties top the corruption list (9 Dec 2006)
Paper Tiger: Why Jersey chief minister Senator Walker won’t talk to reformers (8 Dec 2006)
Tax Avoidance Pays: KPMG's £680,000-a-year partners round off Big Four's bumper year (8 Dec 2006)
Almost half of UK tax law targets avoidance (8 Dec 2006)
AABA Trustee Jim Cousins presses the UK government for crackdown on tax avoidance (8 Dec 2006)
UK government estimates that organised crime market in the UK is worth about £15 billion a year (8 Dec 2006)
Hunt for gold in tax haven of Guernsey (8 Dec 2006)
Nearly 1.7m UK low-earners face effective tax rate of 60p a pound (8 Dec 2006)
UK Families paying £200 more in tax since 2005 (8 Dec 2006)
The Canadian government should crack down on offshore tax havens, a high-profile parliamentary committee recommends (8 Dec 2006)
Fashion Victims: ‘5p an hour women shame UK stores’ (8 Dec 2006)

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EU tactics over African trade are 'bribery', say aid groups (8 Dec 2006)
Westpoint scandal and the channel Islands links (7 Dec 2006)
Dutch provide tax haven for multi-nationals and super-rich (7 Dec 2006)
KPMG Firms' combined global revenues rise to US$16.9 billion - Ah well, it will help to pay fines for anti-social activities (7 Dec 2006)
Bribery and Corruption: Texan private equity firm Lone Star's 2003 purchase of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) for $1.5bn (£760m) was illegal (7 Dec 2006)
Bribery and corruption: Pressure grows to resolve UK fraud inquiry into Saudi arms deals (7 Dec 2006)
UK Assault on tax avoidance to raise more than £1bn (7 Dec 2006)
UK tax avoidance clampdown hits 'one-man bands' (7 Dec 2006)
UK govt sets aside over £500 mln to comply with European Cadbury tax ruling (7 Dec 2006)
UK VAT fraud increases to £3bn (7 Dec 2006)
UK Treasury sees a rise in VAT fraud (7 Dec 2006)
UK Tax on short-haul flights raised from £5 to £10 (7 Dec 2006)
UK government criticised over handling of alternatively secured pensions (ASPs) loophole (7 Dec 2006)
UK Tax rules involving offshore profits changed (7 Dec 2006)
Cayman Islands regulators report 7 percent growth of offshore business (7 Dec 2006)
Offshore Financial Services Guide 2005-2006 (7 Dec 2006)
Tightening up on UK tax advantages (7 Dec 2006)
Ernst & Young's Global Tax Risk Survey 2006 (7 Dec 2006)
Henderson to benefit from tax settlement (6 Dec 2006)
Norway sets out to fight corruption in foreign aid, help poor nations clean up graft (6 Dec 2006)
Famous names targeted in UK offshore tax inquiry (6 Dec 2006)
75,000 Brits tip-off the taxman (6 Dec 2006)
Tax Evaders: Multinationals are Selling the Country Short (6 Dec 2006)
Britain is the ultimate tax haven (6 Dec 2006)
Dutch provide tax haven for multi-nationals and super-rich (6 Dec 2006)
Hong Kong backs off on sales tax (6 Dec 2006)
Hong Kong Sales Tax retreat draws praise from all but accountants (6 Dec 2006)
U.S. Giving Bank’s Papers to Lawyers in KPMG case (6 Dec 2006)
City set for push on new land tax: 1% levy on all land sales would bring $119 million per year for local roads (6 Dec 2006)
Richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth (6 Dec 2006)
World wealth inequality (6 Dec 2006)

Read the Report: The World Distribution of Household Wealth

Scottish powerbrokers earn lofty positions on UK football rich list (6 Dec 2006)
Beckham tops football's rich list (6 Dec 2006)
UK gives £50m as World Bank loosens ties over aid to poor (6 Dec 2006)
Bulgarian Government Increases Taxes (6 Dec 2006)
Hong Kong drops sales tax plans (5 Dec 2006)
German Economy to Cope With Sales Tax Increase, Survey Shows (5 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Saudi fury at slush fund claim threatens thousands of UK jobs (5 Dec 2006)
World Bank says tax burden on NZ businesses 'minimal' (5 Dec 2006)
China’s hot money problem (5 Dec 2006)
I’m rich: I’ll pay income tax at 0.14% (4 Dec 2006)
UK Government hopes cooperation treaty with UAE will slow down carousel fraud (4 Dec 2006)
Up to 90% of UK VAT carousel fraud money said to go through Dubai banks (4 Dec 2006)
UK Attracting billionaires for all the wrong reasons (4 Dec 2006)
Gibraltar's lax tax regimes attract Mark Thatcher (4 Dec 2006)
US President Bush touts Estonia‘s flat income tax (4 Dec 2006)
UK tax amnesty likely for offshore accounts (4 Dec 2006)
Transfer Pricing: US Probe into ETP's energy swaps trades (4 Dec 2006)
Jersey Chief Minister Rubbishes Guernsey Government (3 Dec 2006)
Britain: world's first onshore tax haven (3 Dec 2006)
BRITAIN’S 54 billionaires paid £14.7 million in taxes on their £126 billion income (3 Dec 2006)
32 of the UK individual billionaires or family groupings are calculated not to have paid any personal taxes (3 Dec 2006)
Mark Thatcher seeks new refuge in the sun, paying just £20,000 a year on the income from his £64m fortune (3 Dec 2006)
Friedman's unethical rot made wrongs into a right (3 Dec 2006)
Ethics debate booted about (3 Dec 2006)
UK Treasury swoops down on helicopter tax loophole (3 Dec 2006)
Reform Employment Relationship Evolution, Financialisation, and Globalisation (3 Dec 2006)
Financialisation, strategy and governance: or what management has become (3 Dec 2006)
Consultancy Promises, Management Moves: Shareholder Value and Financialisation (3 Dec 2006)
Understanding Global Finance in the Process of Neoliberal Restructuring of the International Political Economy: The Reform of Pension Systems and the Role of Pension Funds in Post-Fordist Economies (3 Dec 2006)
Corporate Governance and the New Politics of Financialisation: Issues Raised by Sarbanes-Oxley (3 Dec 2006)
Capital Mobility, Agglomeration and Corporate Tax Rates: Is the Race to the Bottom for Real? (2 Dec 2006)
VAT fraud to cost UK Treasury £5bn (2 Dec 2006)
CADBURY SCHWEPPES – IS IT REALLY THE TONIC IRISH REVENUE ORDERED? (2 Dec 2006)
China uncovers its largest five billion yuan (633 million U.S. dollars) money laundering case (2 Dec 2006)
UNI General Secretary hits out at private equity practices (2 Dec 2006)
One third of Iraq rebuilding contracts under criminal investigation (2 Dec 2006)
Japan defers move to slash corp taxes (2 Dec 2006)
Reforming the taxation of Multijurisdictional Enterprises in Europe, "Coopetition" in a Bottom-up Federation (2 Dec 2006)
Will Italy’ s Tax Reform Reduce The Corporate Tax Burden?A Microsimulation Analysis (2 Dec 2006)
Three guilty of identity fraud which netted millions (1 Dec 2006)
Tax minimisation is not ethical (1 Dec 2006)
Why country-by-country reporting is essential (1 Dec 2006)
IFRS8 issued but problems remain (1 Dec 2006)
Exxon Mobil CEO Warns Ending Tax Breaks (1 Dec 2006)
Airbus could trigger 'nuclear option' of currency controls (1 Dec 2006)
Disgraced CEO Behind Report Calling For Weakening Post-Enron Corporate Governance Reforms (1 Dec 2006)
They don't like punishment: Justice policy on corporate prosecutions under review in US (1 Dec 2006)

NOVEMBER 2006

IASB in the pockets of big companies as shown by its segment reporting standard (30 Nov 2006)
Central Bank Transparency: Where, Why, and to What Effect? (30 Nov 2006)
Ex-Tyco executive gets 3 years in prison for not reporting more than $170 million income (30 Nov 2006)
Settlement rumors abound in Dominican Verizon tax row (30 Nov 2006)
Russia devises counter tax avoidance scheme (30 Nov 2006)
Legal professional privilege: a loophole that needs closing? (30 Nov 2006)
Prostituting Democracy:History, Latvia and Bush's Night on the Town in Riga (30 Nov 2006)
Russia wipes £130m from gold miner by threatening to revoke licences (30 Nov 2006)
A Bumpy Ride for Flat Taxes (30 Nov 2006)
Taxes 'driving companies into exile', claims CBI (30 Nov 2006)
UK Treasury crackdown on VAT fraudsters suffers a setback (29 Nov 2006)
City workers milk farm tax break (29 Nov 2006)
Bumpy Ride for Flat Taxes (29 Nov 2006)
The man who is taking on Bermuda (29 Nov 2006)
Tanzania ponders raising mining royalties (29 Nov 2006)
India: Corporation tax emerges biggest revenue source for govt (29 Nov 2006)
Czechs oppose alcohol duty reform (29 Nov 2006)
Former owners of MG Rover are set to become millions of pounds richer after clawing back more than £16m from the UK taxman (28 Nov 2006)
Transfer Pricing: How multinational corporations avoid paying their taxes (28 Nov 2006)
Russia’s bureaucracy is corrupt, says OECD (28 Nov 2006)
IRS Looks Closer at Companies' Profit Disparity (28 Nov 2006)
Corruption as Political Capital (28 Nov 2006)
India Inc demands lower tax burden (28 Nov 2006)
Critics of pensions system slam distribution of wealth (27 Nov 2006)
Why was General Reinsurance fined? (27 Nov 2006)
Murphy v Walker - coming to a venue in Jersey (27 Nov 2006)
Five-year plan for common tax base for EU companies (27 Nov 2006)
Inquiry accuses AWB of bribes (27 Nov 2006)
Siemens board member 'aware of €200m black funds network' used for bribery around the world (27 Nov 2006)
They know how to frighten people: One in five top UK companies is considering moving its headquarters abroad (27 Nov 2006)
Tax burden driving firms to consider move overseas (27 Nov 2006)
Silence on tax dodging but companies attack Britain's tax regime (27 Nov 2006)
Ethiopian coffee trademark dispute may leave Starbucks with nasty taste (27 Nov 2006)
International Anti-Corruption Conference maps out global governance agenda (27 Nov 2006)
40% of UK families pay death tax (27 Nov 2006)
JERSEY Attac - December 2006 NEWSLETTER (26 Nov 2006)
Listen to Jersey Follies - Chief Minister Senator Walker speaks (26 Nov 2006)
IMF quota reform poses risks to developing countries (26 Nov 2006)
World Bank, International Monetary Fund sidestep labour standards: Promote violation of workers’ rights (26 Nov 2006)
World Bank corruption fight drags on (26 Nov 2006)
UK Taxpayers fund banned aid policy (26 Nov 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Venezuela tax authority bills Shell US$17.7 million (€13.5 million) (26 Nov 2006)
Venezuela hits Shell with $17.7 mln tax tab (26 Nov 2006)
UK misunderstands tax avoidance states Jersey's Senater Walker (26 Nov 2006)
Border Wars: Tax Revenue, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix (26 Nov 2006)
How Successful is the Dual Income Tax? Evidence from the Finnish Tax Reform of 1993 (26 Nov 2006)
Immigration the key issue in Isle of Man elections (25 Nov 2006)
Billionaires choose London as a tax haven (25 Nov 2006)
India, Brazil, South Africa to cooperate in tax matters (25 Nov 2006)
European policies behind the times, say neo-liberals but silence on tax dodging and inequality (25 Nov 2006)
US IRS To Pursue American Expatriates (25 Nov 2006)
Income splitting nation is born (25 Nov 2006)
South Africa: Ibsa Tax Heads Consolidate Cooperation (24 Nov 2006)
James Hardie's $378m tax avoidance scam (24 Nov 2006)
Australian Wheat Board kickbacks report handed in (24 Nov 2006)
Whilst poor suffer billionaires boom in Britain (24 Nov 2006)
Research shows London is now home to the world's super rich (24 Nov 2006)
Siemens chief vows to crack down on corrupt employees (24 Nov 2006)
Are green taxes the best way to protect the environment (24 Nov 2006)
UK Green taxes imminent (24 Nov 2006)
EU Court rules against dropping tax on alcohol and tobacco bought online (24 Nov 2006)
Consquences of Tax Avoidance Clampdown: Ernst & Young swings axe as VAT advice slumps (23 Nov 2006)
EU alcohol ruling cheers traders (23 Nov 2006)
EU blocks cheap online booze (23 Nov 2006)

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Jersey company in tax avoidance (23 Nov 2006)
DaimlerChrysler cannot deduct sales tax from bad contracts (23 Nov 2006)
Vodafone puts off cost of £2bn tax battle to 2009 (23 Nov 2006)
EU Probes French Tax-Break Plan for Video Games (23 Nov 2006)
EU approves UK film tax incentives (23 Nov 2006)
Monaco closes the real estate door on some U.K. millionaires (23 Nov 2006)
Allowances for Corporate Equity in Practice, IMF Paper (23 Nov 2006)
The good life for tax dodging city slickers (23 Nov 2006)
Vietnam tax offices empowered to seize files, question suspects (23 Nov 2006)
How Multinational Corporations avoid paying their taxes (22 Nov 2006)
FSA fines GenRe UK £1,225,000 for improper reinsurance transactions (22 Nov 2006)
Former labour leader arrested in VW corruption inquiry (22 Nov 2006)
Second arrest in Volkswagen corruption probe (22 Nov 2006)
Is America's love affair with the free market ending? (22 Nov 2006)
The economic development of Mauritius (22 Nov 2006)
KPMG Claims Judge Had No Authority on Legal Fees (22 Nov 2006)
WHY DO FIRMS HOLD SO MUCH CASH? A TAX-BASED EXPLANATION (22 Nov 2006)
TAXATION AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE CHOICE – EVIDENCE FROM A PANEL OF GERMAN
MULTINATIONALS (22 Nov 2006)
US IRS increases millionaire audits 33%; haul of unpaid taxes builds (21 Nov 2006)
Australia's enforcement of laws against money laundering is falling short (21 Nov 2006)
Mafia Loot Financed Aborted Kazakh Gas Scheme (21 Nov 2006)
Arrest made in VW corruption scandal (21 Nov 2006)
Tax in a borderless world (21 Nov 2006)
Capitalism is fine for pricing potatoes, but not so good at setting the value of big companies (21 Nov 2006)
Swiss banks hold on to their offshore clients (21 Nov 2006)
Trial of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for fraud and money laundering has been adjourned (21 Nov 2006)
Mills faces new tax fraud claims (21 Nov 2006)
Capital on the Move – A Complex Phenomenon (21 Nov 2006)
Company accounts (20 Nov 2006)
Haven for the rich and deluded (21 Nov 2006)
The Netherlands: A Tax Haven? (20 Nov 2006)
Residence and domicile in the firing line - UK Tax case report (20 Nov 2006)
New Zealand's four major banks facing potential liabilities of more than NZ$2 billion on the so-called "structured finance" transactions (20 Nov 2006)
Financial crime in the UK stemming from Nigeria involves "billions of pounds" (20 Nov 2006)
Nigerian scams cost UK billions (20 Nov 2006)
Shell Companies Incorporation Rules Enable Fraud (20 Nov 2006)
Shell companies used to launder money and evade taxes (20 Nov 2006)
Law enforcement hampered by secret ownership of companies (20 Nov 2006)
US senate Panel to target shell companies (20 Nov 2006)
Saddam Hussein investigators have uncovered 2,100 different bank accounts and 400 shell companies, dispersed around 47 different countries (20 Nov 2006)
Corporate espionage company chaired by former Tory leader Michael Howard paid nearly £1million to settle claims it impersonated MI6 officers (20 Nov 2006)
A court victory for the UK taxman means the chancellor can squeeze more out of the 1m people who have moved abroad (19 Nov 2006)
EU ‘terror tax’ for firms (19 Nov 2006)
Siemens fraud five times bigger than thought (19 Nov 2006)
14 billion yen pork tax dodge bags execs (19 Nov 2006)
UN COMMISSION ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime (18 Nov 2006)
Singapore a new haven for mega rich (18 Nov 2006)
Cancer of corruption cripples aid (18 Nov 2006)
Riddle of the anonymous fortune found in Spanish banks (18 Nov 2006)
Whose fault is tax complexity? (17 Nov 2006)
CONSTRUCTING COMPLIANCE: GAME-PLAYING, TAX LAW AND THE REGULATORY STATE by Sol Picciotto (17 Nov 2006)
The UK Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 – Post implementation review (17 Nov 2006)
Tax havens lose some attraction as UK Revenue goes on the offensive (17 Nov 2006)
Marks & Spencer continental losses go to Court of Appeal (17 Nov 2006)
Indirect 'stealth taxes' cost average UK household £200,000 (17 Nov 2006)
UK Tax reform to help big business (17 Nov 2006)
UK to ease corporate tax burden (17 Nov 2006)
Union fury over UK tax office cuts (17 Nov 2006)
Japan: Big business pushes lower taxes (17 Nov 2006)
Venezuela: Eni Owes $6M in Back Taxes (17 Nov 2006)
UK attacked over 'millionaire's stealth tax' (16 Nov 2006)
Tax net tightens on UK super rich (16 Nov 2006)
Monaco Millionaires" face a crackdown by UK Revenue & Customs (16 Nov 2006)
UK HMRC on the hunt for company residence cases (16 Nov 2006)
UK Non-resident millionaires face 13 years of tax bills (16 Nov 2006)
Court raises Yukos back tax bill by $1.5 billion, to $13.2 billon (16 Nov 2006)
Ex-Volkswagen chief on 44 charges in bribes case (16 Nov 2006)
Homes of Siemens bosses raided in fraud inquiry (16 Nov 2006)
Police launch Siemens fraud probe (15 Nov 2006)
US Judge delays KPMG tax shelter trial (15 Nov 2006)
KPMG tax shelters case delayed ‘indefinitely’ (15 Nov 2006)
SFO 'needs help with BAE illegal payments probe' (15 Nov 2006)
Ex-VW Executive Charged With Corruption (15 Nov 2006)
Ex-lobbyist in US corruption scandal goes to prison (15 Nov 2006)
Shell Companies: Failures to Identify Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement, says US Senator Coleman (14 Nov 2006)
Shell Companies: FAILURE TO IDENTIFY COMPANY OWNERS IMPEDES LAW ENFORCEMENT, says US senator Levin (14 Nov 2006)

PWC, a threat to the world’s poor (14 Nov 2006)
Wine chief warns of EU tax ruling repercussions (14 Nov 2006)
Singapore to increase its goods and services tax to 7% from 5% as it considers reducing corporate taxes (14 Nov 2006)
Lawyers warn of HMRC interest in CGT avoidance scheme (14 Nov 2006)
Corruption linked to poverty (14 Nov 2006)
Corruption a Worry for 75% of Global Citizens (14 Nov 2006)
Nigeria Halliburton bribery case heats up again (14 Nov 2006)
Isle man gave China stealth tech, US feds say (14 Nov 2006)
Italian Mafia Invests Millions in Germany (14 Nov 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Mother of all tax settlements (14 Nov 2006)
Tax measures in Azores led to legal tussles (14 Nov 2006)
The Big 6 Accountancy Firms - ignoring the global public (13 Nov 2006)
The threat of the ‘Big 6′ Accountancy Firms (13 Nov 2006)
BAE in corruption probe and links to Tanzania (13 Nov 2006)
Booze cruise comes to your doorstep (13 Nov 2006)
BP's Russian gas joint venture settles £750m tax bill (13 Nov 2006)
Australian Stars In The Dark As Tax Files Are Lost (13 Nov 2006)
Primarolo misunderstands tax avoidance says Jersey's unwise Senater Walker (13 Nov 2006)
Jersey's Senator Syvret on GST, Exemptions and Zero Ten (13 Nov 2006)
Amsterdam link to tax havens (12 Nov 2006)
Women With Low Tax Drive Head For Monaco (12 Nov 2006)
So where did the Saddam cash go? (12 Nov 2006)
Britain has lost control of its own tax policies (12 Nov 2006)
India: Tax havens under watch for money laundering (12 Nov 2006)
Treatment of Islamic financial instruments under the United Nations Model Double Taxation Convention between Developed and Developing Countries (11 Nov 2006)
Tax cooperation and cross-border tax crime: Roles of international organization and potential roles for the United Nations (11 Nov 2006)
BP venture pays $1bn in back taxes as Russia gets tougher (11 Nov 2006)
The end to ‘corporate tax-free holiday’ (11 Nov 2006)
Our man in Africa: lovely country, it's just a pity you're corrupt from head to toe (11 Nov 2006)
Canada target offshore tax havens (11 Nov 2006)
Capital gains tax warning for UK buy-to-let investors (11 Nov 2006)
Dutch advisers in corporate boost as Netherlands slashes business tax (11 Nov 2006)
Thaksin kin face panal probe on tax evasion (11 Nov 2006)
Canada: First income trusts, next tax havens? (10 Nov 2006)
Now Canada clamps down on offshore tax havens (10 Nov 2006)
Closure of bank shrinks VAT carousel fraud (10 Nov 2006)
Nordea faces tax claim of 108 mln eur plus interest, will contest (10 Nov 2006)
BP settles huge $1.5 bn Russian tax bill (10 Nov 2006)
Farepak fatcats exposed (10 Nov 2006)
Consequences of Tax Avoidance: Dirty water kills 5,000 children a day (10 Nov 2006)
Consequences of Tax Avoiance: Africa's largest slum: where youngsters play among bags full of raw sewage (10 Nov 2006)
Organised avoidance - the Jyske Bank (9 Nov 2006)
Iraq corruption 'costs billions' (9 Nov 2006)
Tax evasion: Highway to continued poverty (9 Nov 2006)
EU to investigate Swedish tax breaks for companies in carbon trading plan (9 Nov 2006)
Russia launches probe at TNK-BP (9 Nov 2006)
Rich kids hit for millions in Thai tax scandal (9 Nov 2006)
POLITICAL POWER BEYOND THE STATE: PROBLEMATICS OF GOVERNMENT (9 Nov 2006)
Merck discloses 4 tax disputes in US and Canada with $5.58 billion potential liabilities (8 Nov 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Merck disputes US, Canada tax (8 Nov 2006)
China orders rich to file incomes for tax (8 Nov 2006)
Brazil public prosecutor is investigating Media Sports Investment for systematic money laundering at Brazilian club Corinthians (8 Nov 2006)
Dirty Money Used for Construction - and Pollution (8 Nov 2006)
Corrupt bureaucrats cost Russia £125bn a year, prosecutor says (8 Nov 2006)
Canada: Some battered trusts now look like bargains (8 Nov 2006)
Toppled Thai leader's lawyer says family will fight paying taxes on controversial deal (8 Nov 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Russian uranium champion asks BHP Billiton to wait (8 Nov 2006)
Corruption cases soar in Russia (8 Nov 2006)
World Bank gives warning on Britain's morass of tax rules (8 Nov 2006)
Bank scam threatens Kenya economy (7 Nov 2006)
World Bank Sanctions Lahmeyer International for Corrupt Activities in Bank-Financed Projects (7 Nov 2006)
India mulls negative list of tax havens for foreign funds (7 Nov 2006)
Key UK VAT anti-fraud rule delayed (7 Nov 2006)
ECOFIN EU finance ministers to try again for alcohol tax deal (7 Nov 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Multinationals get little tax joy from advance rulings (7 Nov 2006)
World Bank plots global tax take (7 Nov 2006)

Read PwC survey: Paying Taxes The global picture

Collapse of leveraged buyout firm inevitable, FSA warns (7 Nov 2006)
FSA warns of 'inevitable' crash (7 Nov 2006)
The Billions of dollars migrant workers send home each year have only a modest impact on most Latin American and Caribbean economies (7 Nov 2006)
Britain tops the list in Europe for online gambling (6 Nov 2006)
De Beers enters conflict at the heart of the diamond industry (6 Nov 2006)
West must give back what it's plundered and looted (6 Nov 2006)
2006 Corruption Perceptions Index reinforces link between poverty and corruption (6 Nov 2006)
OIL, CASH AND CORRUPTION (6 Nov 2006)
EU Commissioners in Bed with Business (6 Nov 2006)
Celebrities join the battle over California fuel tax (6 Nov 2006)
Experts handling £4.3m money laundering case (6 Nov 2006)
TAXATION COULD BE AN OBSTACLE TO UK GAMBLING REGULATION AMBITIONS (6 Nov 2006)
UK Government bid to tax online gambling hits losing streak (5 Nov 2006)
UK Revenue moves to close tax loophole on cheap CD imports (5 Nov2 006)
City squires snap up farms via tax havens (5 Nov 2006)
Hollinger: If you doubt the malign effects of big business out of control, consider Conrad Black's downfall (5 Nov 2006)
Companies don't want to pay any taxes (4 Nov 2006)
Spain: French and Portuguese banks investigated for money laundering (4 Nov 2006)
South Africa to clamp down on tax avoidance - introduces GAAR (4 Nov 2006)
Israel Discount Bank Ltd fined $12 million for violating US federal and state laws designed to thwart money laundering (4 Nov 2006)
UK Parliament debate on the Jersey CD/DVD VAT dodge (3 Nov 2006)
Jersey: The impact of the fulfilment industry on the local economy (3 Nov 2006)
South Africa laws take aim at corporate tax avoidance (3 Nov 2006)
Canada: The trust move is belated, but welcome (3 Nov 2006)
Germany set for business tax cut (3 Nov 2006)
Exploding Philanthropy: Moguls Spur a Rich and Unregulated Marketplace (3 Nov 2006)
Former U.S. Attorney Faces Four Decades In Prison After Pleading Guilty to Charges of Tax Fraud and Conspiracy (3 Nov 2006)
The UK Tax System and the Environment (3 Nov 2006)

Read the 92 page report

US Congress Urged To Rein In OECD's Global Tax Program (2 Nov 2006)
UK Taxman 'failing to enforce IR35' (2 Nov 2006)
Charity tax schemes 'cost UK £100m' (2 Nov 2006)
UK HMRC LOGS 2,000 DISCLOSURES OF TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES (2 Nov 2006)

See the HMRC Report

Switzerland losing corporate tax advantage in Europe (2 Nov 2006)
Canadian trusts tank on tax (2 Nov 2006)
How Canada trust changes will affect income taxes (2 Nov 2006)
KPMG Study: Role of Corporate Tax Changing (2 Nov 2006)
KPMG’s Corporate Tax Rate Survey (2 Nov 2006)

Read KPMG’s Corporate Tax Rate Survey

Ryanair boss in four-letter tax blast (2 Nov 2006)
UK ‘haven’ for money laundering (1 Nov 2006)
Setting up a bogus company is as easy as surfing the net (1 Nov 2006)
Tax cheats 'leading South Africa down slippery slope' (1 Nov 2006)
EU to deepen cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao (1 Nov 2006)
Ottawa to tax trusts (1 Nov 2006)
Canada’s New Government Announces Tax Fairness Plan (1 Nov 2006)
Global competition leads countries to chase growth through lowering tax, says KPMG (1 Nov 2006)
The Russians are coming - and bringing the threat of scandal to the City (1 Nov 2006)
Isle of Man introduces new Companies Act (1 Nov 2006)
Lawsuits cast shadow over Deutsche Bank (1 Nov 2006)
The NatWest Three:Things to do in Houston before your trial (1 Nov 2006)
UN: Proposal for amendments to article 5 of the United Nations Model Double Taxation Convention between Developed and
Developing Countries (1 Nov 2006)
UN: Assistance in the collection of taxes (Article 27) and its commentary (1 Nov 2006)
UN: Developing a Code of Conduct on Promoting Tax Compliance (1 Nov 2006)
UN: Tax Treaty Abuse and Treaty Shopping (1 Nov 2006)

OCTOBER 2006

PWC, Switzerland and its ‘enticing tax benefits’ (31 Oct 2006)
Corruption wastes up to US$12.5 billion of government spending on medicines each year (31 Oct 2006)
WHO sets up network to combat corruption in medicines procurement (31 Oct 2006)
Mills faces second trial over Berlusconi corruption charges (31 Oct 2006)
US IRS Gets Complaint on Chamber of Commerce (31 Oct 2006)
US Congressional candidate uses offshore reinsurance companies in Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands to reduce taxes (31 Oct 2006)
UK gaming rule bid 'not tax grab' (31 Oct 2006)
Green tax will hurt only the poor (31 Oct 2006)
Revision of the wording of Article 26 of the UN Model Convention on Tax (30 Oct 2006)
Tax Administration in OECD and Selected Non-OECD Countries: Comparative Information Series 2006 (31 Oct 2006)
TAX JUSTICE SEMINAR FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (30 Oct 2006)
Corruption: Facts on legal cases involving Italy's Berlusconi (30 Oct 2006)
Belgium: Tax haven for Canadians? (30 Oct 2006)
Lawyer Mills in corruption trial (30 Oct 2006)
UK Revenue blitz on tax returns (30 Oct 2006)
Advance Pricing Arrangements in Japan (30 Oct 2006)
Dodging taxes in stock-option game (30 Oct 2006)
Tony Blair accused of writing a threatening secret letter to the Turkish Prime Minister in a bid to defeat a tax claim against a drinks company with links to a Labour donor (30 Oct 2006)
TV stars in charity tax dodge inquiry (29 Oct 2006)
UK Revenue blitz on tax returns and offshore (29 Oct 2006)
Secret UK green tax blitz (29 Oct 2006)
Ireland Revenue to net €500m from life-assurance probe (29 Oct 2006)
Corruption fuels poverty (29 Oct 2006)
Russia reports 7,000 money laundering crimes in 2006 (29 Oct 2006)
A tangled web in the Solomons (29 Oct 2006)
Watchdog snaps at watchdog as SEC faces investigation (28 Oct 2006)
Guernsey decline set to continue (28 Oct 2006)
Annual undeclared income under transfer pricing hits record in Japan to 283.6 billion yen (28 Oct 2006)
Japan mulls revising depreciation rules to ease tax burden (28 Oct 2006)
Companies mining gold, diamonds and other gems pay royalties but no corporate taxes until they have recouped their initial investment (28 Oct 2006)
VAT Carousel fraud four jailed (28 Oct 2006)
£10m VAT carousel fraud gang jailed (28 Oct 2006)
Revenue Authorities: Issues and Problems in Evaluating Their Success, IMF Paper (28 Oct 2006)
Expect more international scrutiny as e-commerce firms head for tax haven Channel Islands (27 Oct 2006)
Ex-Bawag PSK Bank chief executive faces charges of improper use of funds, fraud and accounting violations, ex-KPOMG partner also charged (27 Oct 2006)
$10 billion laundered in Russia every year (27 Oct 2006)
James Packer's A$30m tax bill on A$4.5bn (27 Oct 2006)
Pinochet gold papers 'are fake' (27 Oct 2006)
Italy Tax police ‘spied’ on Prodi tax records (27 Oct 2006)
Chief of Deutsche Bank in court again over bonuses (27 Oct 2006)
Green family's payout contributes to tumble in Arcadia profit (27 Oct 2006)
Shell confident of reaching deal with Russia over Sakhalin (27 Oct 2006)
US is right to demand risky tax schemes are revealed (26 Oct 2006)
Income trust accounting a 'worry (26 Oct 2006)
UK faces £10bn bill after Deutsche tax ruling (26 Oct 2006)

Read the House of Lords Judgement

UK wants Europe to fight VAT fraud linked to terror funds (26 Oct 2006)
HSBC launches search for '£98m gold hoard' belonging to Gen Pinochet (26 Oct 2006)
Russia threatens to prosecute Shell over Sakhalin-2 (26 Oct 2006)
Offshore funds’ tax-free status under threat (26 Oct 2006)
China Officials draft tax laws for pricing transfers (26 Oct 2006)
Starbucks, the coffee beans and the copyright row that cost Ethiopia £47m (26 Oct 2006)
Yukos investor lawsuit dismissed (26 Oct 2006)
Insolvency specialist hunts £30m in unpaid tax (26 Oct 2006)
Russia to open criminal probe into Shell (25 Oct 2006)
Deutsche Tax defeat could cost Revenue billions (25 Oct 2006)
Somebody at Halliburton is Getting Blown Off Your Taxes (25 Oct 2006)
The £50 'global warming' jet tax (25 Oct 2006)
Ex-Refco CFO charged in $1 billion fraud (25 Oct 20060
Charles faces tax bill for millions (25 Oct 2006)
Austria - a haven for the super-rich (25 Oct 2006)

FSA chief warns MPs against driving hedge funds offshore (25 Oct 2006)
Ireland: Motor tax blitz failure 'cost €40m' (25 Oct 2006)
Lobbying in US important to Caribbean interests (25 Oct 2006)
More Tax dodging: Deloitte pulls together Caribbean network (25 Oct 2006)
India: Mauritius tax treaty in firing line again (25 Oct 20060
Pakistan: Textile sector evades taxes (25 Oct 2006)
Some tax dodgers living in Switzerland (24 Oct 2006)
Penny stocks helping in tax dodge (24 Oct 2006)
Taxing Time For Charles As He Faces Huge Bill (24 Oct 2006)
Prince Charles faces tax bill for millions (24 Oct 2006)
Dutch tycoon arrives from Bermuda for money laundering probe (24 Oct 2006)
Tense meeting sees UK MPs grill Revenue over tax credit fiasco (24 Oct 2006)
Windfall tax’ call on oil companies as profits announced (23 Oct 2006)
UK 'has squandered oil revenues' (23 Oct 2006)
Hooked on oil: breaking the habit with a windfall tax (23 Oct 2006)
Jersey facilitates tax avoidance for oil companies (23 Oct 2006)
Now red tape and tax are set to go global (23 Oct 2006)
Russian gas firm linked to Weldon probe courted others, tax havens implicated (23 Oct 2006)
Experts differ on definition of 'developing country' (23 Oct 2006)
Hague court extends custody of businessman held in Curacao tax fraud probe (23 Oct 2006)
Banker to face court over VAT carousel fraud (23 Oct 2006)
Dutch tycoon accused of money laundering: Bank was alleged conduit for billions of pounds (23 Oct 2006)
SARS ‘crackdown’ on car industry transfer pricing (23 Oct 2006)
UK Taxman intensifies fund manager scrutiny (23 Oct 2006)
Who wins from the Tory Tax Cuts? (22 Oct 2006)
Jersey gets it wrong again (22 Oct 2006)
Tax evasion - a threat to democratic government (22 Oct 2006)
Capital isn't working (22 Oct 2006)
More on Mr Bono (22 Oct 2006)
It isn't just Bono's U2 who are talking through their hat about tax avoidance (22 Oct 2006)
Norway: Members of parliament admit 'under the table' tax deals (22 Oct 2006)
Tory taxidermy - how to get yourself stuffed over tax (22 Oct 2006)
Berlusconi paper chase leads to Malta, trial begins next month (22 Oct 2006)
Politicians and government officials are suspected of laundering money (22 Oct 2006)
The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004 (21 Oct 2006)
The UK Financial Services Authority : A Model of Improved Accountability? (21 Oct 2006)
Cost of Tory Tax Cuts (21 Oct 2006)
Russian tax claim opens second front in Shell row (21 Oct 2006)
Norway's prime minister and 43 members of parliament have admitted to cheating the tax collector (21 Oct 2006)
How your supermarket flowers empty Kenya's rivers (21 Oct 2006)
US Feds charge accountant with money laundering (21 Oct 2006)
UK Tories back off flights levy in tax plan (21 Oct 2006)
UK Taxman admits defeat on tips (20 Oct 2006)
IMF study: Flat tax 'a craze' (20 Oct 2006)
Capping the well-heads of corruption (20 Oct 2006)
US: Tax Preparers Going to Jail and Barred from Promoting Tax Fraud Scheme (20 Oct 2006)
Lecture us no more, Mr. Bono (20 Oct 2006)
Yoko Ono sues EMI over John Lennon royalties allgeing "intentionally and systematically ... dishonest and grossly deficient accounting statements" (20 Oct 2006)
Yoko Ono sues EMI for $10 m over Lennon royalties (20 Oct 2006)

Court Decision

Total's incoming chief probed over bribery and Iraq (20 Oct 2006)
Tycoon in BAE inquiry faced passport hearing (20 Oct 2006)
What's Wrong with Corporate Social Responsibility? (20 Oct 2006)
Corporate responsibility in a global age (19 Oct 2006)
If Brown wants the City to love him, here's a list of sweeties to hand out (19 Oct 2006)
Tory Tax Reforms: Intellectually bankrupt and economically incoherent (19 Oct 2006)
UK Companies Bill Third Reading in the House of Commons (19 Oct 2006)
UK companies must disclose their tax risks (19 Oct 2006)
Race to the Bottom: UK hints at business tax cut (19 Oct 2006)
Australia Tax Office to publish details about thousands of tax avoidance settlements and prosecutions (19 Oct 2006)
Tax abuse dying down (19 Oct 2006)
Blunkett's advisers offer death tax plans (19 Oct 2006)
Governments for Sale: Senior UK KPMG man named as Midlands Tory party donor (19 Oct 2006)
NYSE censured and fined Wachovia Securities $300,000 for failing to reasonably supervise activities in securities accounts linked to customer bank accounts (19 Oct 2006)
Sungard Global Execution Services failed to supervise customer orders placed over the firm’s electronic access systems (19 Oct 2006)
Corruption: SFO raids four premises in BAE contracts probe (19 Oct 2006)
Corruption: Probe into BAE arms deals widens (19 Oct 2006)
Australia: Tax Office owed $10bn as companies rack up debt (19 Oct 2006)
Germany to put debt and aid for Africa at top of G8 agenda (19 Oct 2006)
PwC sued in US but Tories hire them to advise on tax (19 Oct 2006)
KPMG with a reputation for tax evasion claims that OECD tax forum was a disappointment (18 Oct 2006)
Corporate responsibility means nothing unless British firms abroad are held to account (18 Oct 2006)
Russian authorities raid Moscow bank in money laundering investigation (18 Oct 2006)
Money Laundering in A Changed World (18 Oct 2006)
Distrusting income trusts (18 Oct 20060
Tuition fees VAT decision overturned (18 Oct 2006)
IBM Profit Grows as Taxes Shrink (18 Oct 2006)
UK 'failing over white-collar fraud' (18 Oct 2006)
Will the Recent KPMG Decisions Change White-Collar Defense? (18 Oct 2006)
Enron: Death has wiped Lay's slate clean (18 Oct 2006)
French regulator targets Deutsche, GLG (18 Oct 2006)
Can Major Accountancy Firms Behave Ethically? (17 Oct 2006)
Australia Tax haven investigation gets a win (17 Oct 2006)
Gibraltar plans major tax changes (17 Oct 2006)
UK HMRC to reveal tax avoidance disclosures (17 Oct 2006)
Income trusts will cost Ottawa and the provinces $1.1-billion in lost tax revenue annually (17 Oct 2006)
Prosecutors raid Citigroup in South Korea (17 Oct 2006)
Afribank denies 'cooked' financial results (17 Oct 2006)
Nigeria: Crisis Rocks Afribank (17 Oct 2006)
Wesley Snipes Indicted for Tax Fraud (17 Oct 2006)
Kenya: Charterhouse Bank should be closed down because of its involvement in malpractices (17 Oct 2006)
Democratising globalisation: Joseph Stiglitz interviewed (17 Oct 2006)
"Making Globalization Work" by Joseph Stiglitz (17 Oct 2006)
Kenya: Audit Uncovers Massive Malpractices At Charterhouse (16 Oct 2006)
A match made in money Forbes & Bono tethered in an unlikely partnership (16 Oct 2006)
Aussie companies told to list offshore (16 Oct 2006)
Locating in Tax Havens: Russian Aluminium – the world’s largest removalist (16 Oct 2006)
Compass settles UN bribery cases for £40m (16 Oct 2006)
UK business wants even more tax cuts (16 Oct 2006)
PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE : THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION (15 Oct 2006)
Top UK Tory named in offshore tax row (15 Oct 2006)
Swedish trade minister resigns amid tax scandal - Jersey implicated (15 Oct 2006)
Swedish 'tax dodge' minister quits (15 Oct 2006)
Sweden's trade minister has resigned over allegations of tax evasion (15 Oct 2006)
Money laundering: Oil tycoon eludes police in Bermuda (15 Oct 2006)
Forget about tax haven reforms as UK government promises support for finance capitalism (15 Oct 2006)
Flat taxes have not worked - IMF report (15 Oct 2006)
Supreme Court has declared that the Philippine Airlines is exempted from paying all other taxes, including the 20 percent final withholding tax on bank deposits (15 Oct 2006)
UK Government rejects carbon trading funds' tax break call (15 Oct 2006)
Algeria agrees oil windfall tax (15 Oct 2006)
Private equity a threat to taxation (14 Oct 2006)
Tax authorities raise private equity fears (14 Oct 2006)
Offshore Finance Attracts Attention (14 Oct 2006)
Hynix price fixing leads to tax break questions (14 Oct 2006)
Business, stop moaning. These 'burdens' are what keep us civilised (13 Oct 2006)
You'll never stamp out tax avoidance, accountants claim as their immoral conduct challenges civil society (13 Oct 2006)
London's mountain of money: The middle classes are being squeezed by the capital's sup-rich (13 Oct 2006)
Hong Kong says unlikely to agree to EU demand for info on tax evaders. (13 Oct 2006)
INFORMATION BROCHURE on the Norbourg affair intended for investors: biggest financial and tax fraud in Québec's history (13 Oct 2006)
Canada Premiere Faces Pressure to Shut Canadian Trust Loophole (13 Oct 2006)
Canada's largest telephone company converts into an income trust and avoid paying corporate taxes (13 Oct 2006)
Canada: Income trust conversions bleeding Ottawa, expert warns (13 Oct 2006)
Trusts erode Canada's taxes (13 Oct 2006)
Paying dividends out of nothing: Under Cayman Islands company law, dividends may be debited to the share premium account (13 Oct 2006)
Tax authorities squeeze multinationals over transfer pricing (13 Oct 2006)
TAX HAVENS HINDER AFRICA'S ESCAPE FROM POVERTY (12 Oct 2006)
Offshore: The Taxman Cometh (12 Oct 2006)
Britons face one of fastest-growing tax burdens in developed world (12 Oct 2006)
UK Chancellor under pressure over jump in tax take (12 Oct 2006)
UK Revenue faces £1bn a year hit from IR35 (12 Oct 2006)
US could save about $130 billion by cutting wasteful spending and eliminating off-shore tax havens (12 Oct 2006)
Russia struggles to attract investment (12 Oct 2006)
Legislature for Hire: Bermuda will permit companies to pass private acts of parliament (12 Oct 2006)
The "Flat Tax(es)": Principles and Evidence, 50 page IMF Paper (12 Oct 2006)
Offshore: Alternative Economy (12 Oct 2006)
Tax prohibits UK investment (11 Oct 2006)
Offshore: Minding your permanent capital vehicle (PCVs) (12 Oct 2006)
Isle of Man publishes overdue plans for pensions tax reform (12 Oct 2006)
CBI and its anti-social tax campaign (11 Oct 2006)
South Africa: A couple allegedly used South African Airways and KPMG, to "wash" about R6-million (11 Oct 2006)
OECD says world tax burden rising (11 Oct 2006)
Tax revenues on the rise in many OECD countries, OECD report shows (11 Oct 2006)

Total Tax Revenue as a % of GDP (11 Oct 2006)

Taxes on income and profits as percentage of GDP (11 Oct 2006)

UK Revenue claims it is winning war against VAT fraudsters (11 Oct 2006)
Monaco: Southern France tax haven attracts Brits (11 Oct 2006)
£135,000 drive to dig up 'tax-dodge' trees and restore peatlands (10 Oct 2006)
India pressurising Mauritius to re-negotiate the double-tax avoidance treaty (11 Oct 2006)
VAT fraud continues to dent economy (10 Oct 2006)
Jersey promoting tax dodging (11 Oct 2006)
Jersey gets it wrong, again (10 Oct 2006)
Jersey's role in scandal which involved stripping the surpluses of a number of companies' pension funds (10 Oct 2006)
UK IS AN OFFSHORE TAX HAVEN: WHERE DO FIRMS INCORPORATE? (10 Oct 2006)
Race-to-the-Bottom as despite record low burdens on companies, CBI wants even more tax reductions (10 Oct 2006)
Carousel VAT fraud down, official UK figures show (10 Oct 2006)
VAT fraud revisions pump up UK trade deficit (10 Oct 2006)
New single financial sector regulator for the Isle of Man (10 Oct 2006)
How Offshore tax havens helped the looting of Russia: Listen to BBC Radio 4 "From the Kremlin to Knightsbridge (2)" (10 Oct 2006)
Corruption 'huge' issue for firms (9 Oct 2006)
The Price of Blood: Transcript (9 Oct 2006)
British Economy Fuels Tax Haven Monaco Real Estate (9 Oct 2006)
Orchestra must get attuned to paying VAT (9 Oct 2006)
UK govt draws up plans for online betting firms - report (9 Oct 2006)
Glamour model Jordan is threatening not to pay her tax bill (9 Oct 2006)
One in five UK companies lost business in the last 12 months to a competitor paying bribes (9 Oct 2006)
UK Investors dodge tax on buy-to-let (9 Oct 2006)
UN REPORT CONDEMNS CONFLICT DIAMOND EXPORTS (9 Oct 2006)
Bulgaria's tax system changes (9 Oct 2006)
Iran 'using British banks to channel money to terrorists' (8 Oct 2006)
Canada gets tough on terror cash (8 Oct 2006)
Ford Motor Company and its Transfer Pricing Practices in Canada (8 Oct 2006)

Corruption and Transparency (8 Oct 2006)
Romanov: crunch meeting on tax and transfer pricing (8 Oct 2006)
Socialism For The Rich, Mounting Losses For The Poor (8 Oct 2006)
Australia: Tax man to pounce on fattest cats (8 Oct 2006)
Crime, corruption and dodgy corporations (7 Oct 2006)
Russia: The Oil and Gas Industry 2000-2004 (7 Oct 2006)
Tax Justice Network Newsletter - Third Quarter 2006 (7 Oct 2006)
Pressure is growing on the UK to cut business taxes and reduce the risk of companies moving their headquarters (7 Oct 2006)
Middle class parents in London have 'hijacked' a £3bn government scheme to provide child support for the poorest parents (7 Oct 2006)
Plans to create a pan-European corporate tax system are to proceed (6 Oct 2006)
Money Laundering in A Changed World (6 Oct 2006)
Offshore Tax Fraud (6 Oct 2006)
HSBC Says Moving From U.K. Would Save $750 Million (6 Oct 2006)
HSBC recommends shift to US (6 Oct 2006)
HSBC admits it could quit Britain to save tax bill (6 Oct 2006)
Jersey's lying politicians (5 Oct 2006)
UN weighs in on charities row (5 Oct 2006)
Shadow economy in China, a combination of embezzlement, bribery, tax avoidance and underground banking of both legal and illegal money, is huge, and growing (5 Oct 2006)
Former U.S. Attorney to plead guilty to federal charges that he conspired to launder $1.3 million (5 Oct 2006)
UK Poor caught in tax-credit trap (5 Oct 2006)
Why do rich scammers get a pass? (5 Oct 2006)
Shipping personnel set sail to tax havens (5 Oct 2006)
China and India 'top bribe list' but silence on tax havens (4 Oct 2006)
Foreign bribery by emerging export powers disconcertingly high (4 Oct 2006)
Transparency International Bribe Payers Index (BPI) 2006 (4 Oct 2006)
EU court says Italian tax on production value is lawful (4 Oct 2006)
EU court allows Italy to retain business taxes (4 Oct 2006)
Not guilty - but he forfeits £18m, four racehorses and a luxury villa anyway (4 Oct 2006)
Cleared man to hand over £18m and four horses (4 Oct 2006)
Computer chip boss's £18m VAT pay-out (4 Oct 2006)
Soccer: Odor of corruption from root of game (4 Oct 2006)
Kenya: Corruption is Rampant in Relief Work, Report Claims (4 Oct 2006)
How Offshore tax havens helped the looting of Russia: Listen to BBC Radio 4 "From the Kremlin to Knightsbridge (1)" (3 Oct 2006)
Mittal Iron ore deal 'bad for Liberia' (3 Oct 2006)
Heavy Mittal? A State within a State: The inequitable Mineral Development Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Mittal Steel Holdings NV (3 Oct 2006)
Heavy Mittal (3 Oct 2006)
Court recovers $1.6 bln from Yukos oil co. in 2004 tax penalties (3 Oct 2006)
Monaco to start calculating its GDP for the first time (3 Oct 2006)
Ireland: Eight stallion tax-break claims surpass €1m mark (3 Oct 2006)
THE OECD’S PROJECT ON HARMFUL TAX PRACTICES: 2006 UPDATE ON PROGRESS IN MEMBER COUNTRIES (3 Oct 2006)
Dirty Dealings of Accountancy Firms (2 Oct 2006)
Trust law: Jersey shoots itself in the foot (2 Oct 2006)
How Jersey shot itself in the foot (2 Oct 2006)
Cayman's war on taxpayers (2 Oct 2006)
Italy plans new tax for tourists (2 Oct 2006)
Slash your tax bill by £10,000 down the pub (2 Oct 2006)
Bank of America Pays $7.5 Million To Settle NY Money Laundering Probe (1 Oct 2006)
Money Laundering: Bank of America moved over $3 billion from offshore shell companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands (1 Oct 2006)
UK Revenue queries €1m stallion tax breaks (1 Oct 2006)
UK Conservative party and its offsahore links (1 Oct 2006)
Life and death of the Oligarchs' lawyer (1 Oct 2006)
Zantac settlement ‘shows way for SA transfer pricing’ (1 Oct 2006)
Concern is mounting that derivatives, hedge funds or private equity firms could spark a crisis (1 Oct 2006)
Average British household pays more than £600,000 in taxes over a lifetime and even the poorest hand over nearly £250,000 (1 Oct 2006)

SEPTEMBER 2006

Ireland: SOME of the country’s super-rich, with incomes of €1 million a year, are not paying a single cent in income tax (30 Sep 2006)
Tax avoidance widespread amongst Ireland’s super rich (30 Sep 2006)
UK Treasury to act on annuities loophole (30 Sep 2006)
Merck's Offshore Shuffling: Shades of Crazy Eddie (30 Sep 2006)
Bermuda linked to US tax investigation (30 Sep 2006)
UK Revenue unveils draft of new Statement of Practice for UK investment managers (30 Sep 2006)
UK families' disposable incomes have fallen (30 Sep 2006)
Merck, IRS spar on Bermuda profits (29 Sep 2006)
Jersey rotten to the core: What was really said (29 Sep 2006)

Read how Jersey's PR machine does its rotten work

The more you have the easier it is to avoid tax (29 Sep 2006)
Transfer pricing: How Merck saved $1.5B paying itself for drug patents (29 Sep 2006)
Tranfser pricing: Merck faces possible $2.32 billion tax bill from IRS (29 Sep 2006)
Merck Evading Taxes? Abbey National implicated (29 Sep 2006)
Enron: Fastow's comments in court put more heat on bankers (29 Sep 2006)
'Casino may be laundering money' (29 Sep 2006)
Sham trusts impose a cost on society (29 Sep 2006)
UK launches new proposals to tackle financial crime and terrorist financing (29 Sep 2006)
Secret US deal 'broke EU privacy law' (29 Sep 2006)
EU law violated in US banking data transfer scandal (29 Sep 2006)
Why the SEC brought charges against Bermuda reinsurer RenaissanceRe (29 Sep 2006)
Solicitor saga highlights problems facing cash recovery unit (29 Sep 2006)
VAT carousel frauds: 'What we are involved in is trench warfare' (29 Sep 2006)
For those who are serious about money laundering (28 Sep 2006)
EU investigation on the proposed new Danish CO2 tax reductions (28 Sep 2006)
US Congress should close offshore tax shelters for wealthy (28 Sep 2006)
Guernsey offering tax dodges on intellectual property (28 Sep 2006)
Accountants accused of playing a role in the huge financial scandals in Kenya (28 Sep 2006)
UK Disposable incomes hit by higher taxes (28 Sep 2006)
Mittal family set for dividend of $780m (28 Sep 2006)
Who Captures Whom? The Case of Regulation (28 Sep 2006)
Holiding governments to ransom: Lloyd's pursues cut in corporation tax (28 Sep 2006)
Masters of the Universe: PwC launches 140-lawyer tax and legal outfit in Italy (28 Sep 2006)
Countries not conforming to a low-tax, low-spending model are the most competitive (27 Sep 2006)
Austrlia investigating 1069 debit and credit cards linked to offshore accounts used for tax avoidance (27 Sep 2006)
Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland devised structures that helped him to hide losses, says former Enron CFO (27 Sep 2006)
Tax havens and football clubs (27 Sep 2006)
US Treasury: A Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing the Tax Gap (27 Sep 2006)
A Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing the Tax Gap - press release (27 Sep 2006)
Ireland: COMPANY bosses, farmers and builders make up 43% of all tax defaulters (27 Sep 2006)
Spitzer, Faso Debate Taxes, Ethics in New York Governor's Race (27 Sep 2006)
US crackdown dashes Empire Online acquisition plans (27 Sep 2006)
Britain’s tax nexus: able fraudsters, useful idiots (26 Sep 2006)
Enron's Fastow gets 6-year sentence (26 Sep 2006)
Corruption still holds emerging markets back but silence on the role of the West (26 Sep 2006)
Hot Money: Success in the City powers Britain's boom (26 Sep 2006)
Australian Taxation Office cracking down on offshore tax havens (26 Sep 2006)
Thailand: former Prime Minister's family is under investigation for tax avoidance on a $1.9 billion sale of a company (26 Sep 2006)
Turkey tax evasion grows as auditing teams shrink (26 Sep 2006)
UK Raids in money laundering inquiry (26 Sep 2006)
Money laundering linked to cannabis farms (26 Sep 2006)
Crackdown on money laundering ring in Switzerland (26 Sep 2006)
ECJ Cadbury ruling favours taxpayer (26 Sep 2006)
EU allocates 175 mln Euro to fight corruption in Ukraine (26 Sep 2006)
Heads in the Sand: ICAS trusts market to break Big Four’s hold (25 Sep 2006)
Tax back in the spotlight as UK party leaders hustle for centre ground (25 Sep 2006)
New Zealand: Taxman muscles up in hunt for rich tax-dodgers (25 Sep 2006)
Africa's Economic Emancipation (25 Sep 2006)
Save me from the super-rich and their competitive compassion (24 Sep 2006)
UK Revenue raids hedge funds as losses spiral (24 Sep 2006)
Offshore havens 'declare war' on honest taxpayers (24 Sep 2006)
UK seen as weak link as VAT fraud costs EU €40bn (24 Sep 2006)
UK Tax probe for soccer 'bungs' (24 Sep 2006)
Europe's farmers received a record €48.5bn (£33bn) in subsidies in 2005 (24 Sep 2006)
Is aid a $2.3 trillion failure? (24 Sep 2006)
Web vendors not paying hotel room taxes (24 Sep 2006)
Is there a property in London Abramovich won't buy? (23 Sep 2006)
Thai generals launch corruption probe (23 Sep 2006)
400 richest Americans have wealth of $1.25 trillion (23 Sep 2006)
UK collects more than £1bn each day in income tax, National Insurance contributions, VAT, stamp duty and tobacco and spirit duties (23 Sep 2006)
Activists inspire accounting review (22 Sep 2006)
KPMG advises companies to avoid national insurance contributions by paying their directors with the debts of the company (22 Sep 2006)
TAX EVASION MONEY COULD ACHIEVE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (22 Sep 2006)
WORLD BANK AND IMF FAIL TO FULFILL THEIR MISSION (22 Sep 2006)
DEVELOPMENT AND EQUITY ARE NOT TIED EXCLUSIVELY TO INCOME (22 Sep 2006)
Real cost of UK VAT fraud revealed (22 Sep 2006)
VAT Scams steal £8.4bn from UK taxpayer (22 Sep 2006)
Poor countries 'suffering from aid chaos' (22 Sep 2006)
Tax Competitiveness Report Ranks 81Countries (22 Sep 2006)
The 2006 TaxCompetitiveness Report (22 Sep 2006)
Billionaires rule US richest list (22 Sep 2006)
Pharmaceutical companies mired in Enron-style accounting, tax fraud (21 Sep 2006)
UK Customs cracks £5billion VAT fraud - Caribbean bank used to channel monies (21 Sep 2006)
Follow the money: the multibillion pound trail that led to Caribbean bank (21 Sep 2006)
Carousel fraud - the inevitable offshore link (21 Sep 2006)
Pharmaceutical companies mired in Enron-style accounting, tax fraud (21 Sep 2006)
British tax police look hard at hedge funds: Caymans involved (21 Sep 2006)
Russia's control over money laundering questioned (21 Sep 2006)
Venezuela Bills Chevron for Unpaid Taxes (21 Sep 2006)
Thatcherism's final triumph (21 Sep 2006)
Companies Forced to Upgrade Tax Policy (21 Sep 2006)
Global Corruption (20 Sep 2006)
Odious Lending (20 Sep 2006)
Australia: Banks singled out in drive to track down offshore tax cheats (20 Sep 2006)
Graham Norton: Bono’s tax avoidance really annoys me (20 Sep 2006)
Putin calls for money laundering crack-down (20 Sep 2006)
Lib Dems Plans to squeeze the wealthy (20 Sep 2006)
Corporate corruption in Germany (20 Sep 2006)
Accountants jailed in builders' tax fraud (20 Sep 2006)
Surge in offshore bond business (20 Sep 2006)
KPMG Wants Compensation from Former Employees (20 Sep 2006)
'Stormy seas’ forecast for transfer pricing (20 Sep 2006)
International competition in corporate taxation: evidence from the OECD time series (20 Sep 2006)
Jersey and its chief minister: Like being savaged by a dead sheep (19 Sep 2006)
City seeks new power to sue chiefs (19 Sep 2006)
Race to the Bottom;Omega to follow Hiscox to tax-free haven (19 Sep 2006)
KPMG Strikes Back at Former Employees in Tax Shelter Case (19 Sep 2006)
Multinationals' low bills in poor nations under fire (18 Sep 2006)
UK, U.S. & CO ARE MOST CORRUPT (18 Sep 2006)
Corporate Ethical Lapses (18 Sep 2006)
The government of Ras Al Khaimah has launched an offshore facility, the second in the UAE (18 Sep 2006)
Malaysian oil firm Petronas agrees to pay back taxes to Chad (18 Sep 2006)
December clampdown on VAT fraud (18 Sep 2006)
Young Brits face 48% tax (18 Sep 2006)
UK Young 'face greater tax burden' (18 Sep 2006)
How to get 90 per cent tax relief (18 Sep 2006)
World Bank and International Monetary Fund need "a massive shift" in their attitude to internal disclosure (18 Sep 2006)
Revealed: how Jersey woos tax avoiders (17 Sep 2006)
Jersey - rotten to the core (17 Sep 2006)
Jersey Financial Services Commission fails again (17 Sep 2006)
Tax Havens do not benefit the poor - Poverty in Jersey? Oh YES ! (17 Sep 2006)
Tax evasion: campaigners claim accounting watchdog is 'ignoring' them (17 Sep 2006)
When giving to the poorest just lines the pockets of the richest (17 Sep 2006)
Chairman and chief executive of Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB) into alleged money laundering and illegal banking (17 Sep 2006)
A European tax ruling relating to Cadbury Schweppes raises as many questions as it answers (17 Sep 2006)
Indonesian economy is growing. But so, unfortunately, is poverty (17 Sep 2006)
BRITAIN CORRUPT AS WELL... (16 Sep 2006)
A NEW WAVE OFFSHORE (16 Sep 2006)
Money laundering a problem, says Putin (16 Sep 2006)
Tax Chiefs Should Put Seoul Declaration Into Action (16 Sep 2006)
Seoul Declaration' targets tax cheats and strong action against law firms, accounting firms and investment banks (16 Sep 2006)
St. Kitts/ Nevis rattled by the US Senate report on tax haven abuses (16 Sep 2006)
How Do Countries Score on Governance and Corruption (16 Sep 2006)
Measuring Corruption: Myths and Realities (16 Sep 2006)
World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation (16 Sep 2006)
KPMG prosecutors suffer another setback (17 Sep 2006)
Taxes are a moral good, and avoiding your fair share is a moral disgrace (15 Sep 2006)
Tax Chiefs Vow to Curb Tax Evasion (15 Sep 2006)
Petronas in Negotiations Over Chad Taxes (15 Sep 2006)
British taxman casts net overseas (15 Sep 2006)
India-Mauritius Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty Opens Floodgates On Tax Avoidance (15 Sep 2006)
More Lloyd’s of London companies will move to Bermuda (15 Sep 2006)
Former head of Bank Fuer Arbeit und Wirtschaft (Bawag) arrested in France on fraud charges (15 Sep 2006)
Document Could Alter KPMG Tax Case (15 Sep 2006)
They like subsidies: Pinewood to cash in on new British film tax breaks (15 Sep 2006)
Japan: Poor would lose more in tax hike (15 Sep 2006)
Ernst & Young makes its sales pitch on transfer pricing (15 Sep 2006)
Offshore tax shelters not just for the rich (14 Sep 2006)
Football Clubs: The boys from Argentina - via Brazil and a secretive offshore finance company (14 Sep 2006)
Money laundering allegations behind West Ham deal (14 Sep 2006)
World Bank could hinder rather than help the fight against corruption (14 Sep 2006)
UK Minister in £50m World Bank protest (14 Sep 2006)
PAUL Hogan has brushed aside a tax fraud and money-laundering investigation (14 Sep 2006)
UK Law firm broadens lawsuit against HMRC (14 Sep 2006)
Slovenia has given up the idea of the flat tax (13 Sep 2006)
Slovenia says no to flat tax (13 Sep 2006)
US IRS Head Opposes Cross-Border Tax Dodging (13 Sep 2006)
Chances of UK tax investigation, 'extremely low' (13 Sep 2006)
Glaxo's Big Tax Bill (13 Sep 2006)
Swiss financial centre and financial market policy (13 Sep 2006)
UK Treasury suffers court blow in offshore tax fight (13 Sep 2006)
Cadbury wins case over Britain's tax rules (13 Sep 2006)
Cadbury Schweppes - an analysis (13 Sep 2006)

Read the ECJ Ruling

Nigeria: Tax Evasion - Chevron Refutes House of Reps Committee Report (13 Sep 2006)
US is reviewing corporate prosecution guidelines (13 Sep 2006)
No Thought Leadership in Jersey (12 Sep 2006)
South Africa’s annual tax gap is estimated to be between R10bn and R30bn, largely due to international evasion and avoidance by corporates (12 Sep 2006)
South African Revenue Service use TJN information (12 Sep 2006)
Former Tyco Tax Exec Charged with Filing False Tax Returns (12 Sep 2006)
EU Court Says Cadbury Schweppes Tax Havens May Be Legal (12 Sep 2006)
EU Court uphold Cadbury foreign tax appeal, case returns to UK courts ( 12 Sep 2006)
Cadbury wins landmark tax case against UK Treasury (12 Sep 2006)
Parties to illegal gambling scams had bank accounts in Antigua, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and the Channel Islands (12 Sep 2006)
Guernsey and Jersey want their money but not people (12 Sep 2006)
How the World Bank supports corrupt regimes all over the world (12 Sep 2006)
GSK settles largest tax dispute in history for $3.1bn (12 Sep 2006)
Transfer pricing: GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay a record $3.1bn (£1.7bn) to end a tax row with the US (12 Sep 2006)
Glaxo to pay $3.1bn to settle 17-year tax case (12 Sep 2006)
VAT Carousel fraud is falling, claims UK Revenue (12 Sep 2006)
Hiscox swaps London for the low-tax attractions of Bermuda (12 Sep 2006)
Hiscox lured by lower taxes to go offshore to Bermuda (12 Sep 2006)
Shipping magnate to have Irish assets seized (11 Sep 2006)
Malaysia: How firms cheat on tax returns (11 Sep 2006)
China raises tax threshold for domestic firms (11 Sep 2006)
Securities and Exchange Board of India fines Goldman Sachs Investments for violating provisions on the issue of off-shore derivatives (10 Sep 2006)
How Tom Siebel avoided $58 million in taxes when he sold to Oracle--on the up and up (10 Sep 2006)
FRAUDSTER being sued for allegedly stealing £4m through a tax-avoidance plan (10 Sep 2006)
TUC and UK bosses clash over tax (10 Sep 2006)
Global carbon taxes, wealth redistribution ... radical social solutions are globalisation's last chance (10 Sep 2006)
IHT: UK's super tax on widows (10 Sep 2006)
Europe eyeing tax havens again (9 Sep 2006)
Azores tax breaks illegal, says EU court (9 Sep 2006)
Australia loses billions each year to tax havens. And they're no longer just for the rich (9 Sep 2006)
News Corporation is paying $50,000 (£27,000) a month to rent a New York apartment for chairman Rupert Murdoch (9 Sep 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Loggers remain a law unto themselves (9 Sep 2006)
Anticorruption in Transition Who Is Succeeding . . . and Why?, World Bank Report (9 Sep 2006)
STRENGTHENING BANK GROUP ENGAGEMENT ON GOVERNANCE AND ANTICORRUPTION (9 Sep 2006)
Hollinger: Black pleads not guilty to fraud charges (8 Sep 2006)
Accountant tells of Vizard share deals thropugh a tax haven (8 Sep 2006)
Telecom executive pleads guilty to record-breaking $200-million tax evasion - used offshore corporations (8 Sep 2006)
Mobile phone operators cannot claw back £3.3 billion of tax rebates on third-generation mobile phone licences (8 Sep 2006)
US IRS joins probe of stock options (8 Sep 2006)
Chad says Chevron agrees to pay tax (8 Sep 2006)
BP has been accused of "unacceptable" neglect of pipelines in Alaska (8 Sep 2006)
Hearing Will Be Held on KPMG Defendants' Tab (8 Sep 2006
World Bank hones anti-graft plan (8 Sep 2006)
Ernst & Young and the Corruption Perception Index (7 Sep 2006)

Get to know Ernst & Young: Ernst & Young sued over failed tax shelters

The great mobile phone rip-off (7 Sep 2006)
A message from a professional to a wet-behind-the-ears amateur! (7 Sep 2006)
Mobile phone companies lose VAT battle (7 Sep 2006)
Spanish judge to reopen Berlusconi tax fraud case (7 Sep 2006)
The overlooked weakness of offshore corporations, foundations & trusts (7 Sep 2006)
Westpoint boss ordered to give offshore banking details (7 Sep 2006)
Judge Won't Toss Out Demands that KPMG Pay Legal Fees In Tax Case (7 Sep 2006)
UK Stamp duty hits record £1bn (7 Sep 2006)
Call me cynical: Ernst & Young sponsors Transparency International fight against corruption (6 Sep 2006)
Australia: MONEY-laundering scheme involving poker machines (6 Sep 2006)
Australia: Shutting the money laundries (6 Sep 2006)
Australia: TAX investigators are investigating Sydney's brothels and erotic dance clubs (6 Sep 2006)
India says Toyata, Suzuki violating transfer price norms(6 Sep 2006)
Transfer Pricing: India Taxman calls on global auto firms (6 Sep 2006)
Russian General Gets 20 Years In Hiigh-Profile Corruption Case (6 Sep 2006)
Virgin's tax scheme crashes: Ernst & Young in spotlight (6 Sep 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Heavy penalties loom for customs transgressions in South Africa (6 Sep 2006)
Reverse socialism: CBI chief calls for more trust and less tax (6 Sep 2006)
Corporate tax dodging is rife but CBI director-general attacks corporate taxes (6 Sep 2006)
Newcastle United lied over transfer deals, says UK VAT tribunal (6 Sep 2006)
'None of the documents generated by Newcastle can be relied upon as being true', says VAT tribunal (6 Sep 2006)
Swiss based banking establishments estimated to mage SFr 4.5 trillion (US$4 trillion) (6 Sep 2006)
Australia Task force to investigate laundering scheme (5 Sep 2006)
EU Pushes Tax Deal With Bahamas (5 Sep 2006)
Scepticism over EU tax plans for Asia (5 Sep 2006)
India in talks with Mauritius on double taxation treaty (5 Sep 2006)
Britain "more corrupt that many African countries" (5 Sep 2006)
The Future of Capital Income Taxation (5 Sep 2006)
Yukos investors to demand $50bn from Kremlin (5 Sep 2006)
Western tax havens slated as corrupt (4 Sep 2006)
Britain is 'as corrupt as worst African states' (4 Sep 2006)
'Britain, US amongst most corrupt nations' (4 Sep 2006)
UK 'high' on list of corrupt countries (4 Sep 2006)
EU to target Asian tax havens (4 Sep 2006)
EU wants to open talks with Hong Kong, Singapore, others on recovering taxes (4 Sep 2006)
Lawyers elude penalties: Legal advisers seldom held accountable for company fraud (4 Sep 2006)
Isley Brothers singer jailed for tax fraud (4 Sep 2006)
Three club officials are targets in Schalke tax evasion investigation (4 Sep 2006)
FOLLOW THE MONEY: HOW TAX HAVENS FACILITATE DIRTY MONEY FLOWS AND DISTORT GLOBAL MARKETS (3 Sep 2006)
Tax havens 'put Britain high on list of corrupt countries'(3 Sep 2006)
From Hollywood dreams to a tax nightmare (3 Sep 2006)
Top 500 Enterprises 2006 account for 78 percent of China's GDP (3 Sep 2006)
Transparently Dishonest: PricewaterhouseCoopers touts total tax confusion with a new service for their corporate clients (2 Sep 2006)
US "tax gap" for 2001 was $345 billion and rising (2 Sep 2006)
Business of Corruption: Look Who's Left Standing (2 Sep 2006)
Taxing times while lording it over Byron (2 Sep 2006)
Multinationals and responsibility - Cracking the colonial corporate culture (1 Sep 2006)
Race-to-the-Bottom: Malaysia cuts corporate tax (1 Sep 2006)
UK Customs officers foil £116m VAT fraud (1 Sep 2006)
UK Customs officers crack £111m mobile VAT fraud ring (1 Sep 2006)

AUGUST 2006

Switzerland a cog in massive tax fraud scam (31 Aug 2006)
New Zealand Tax consultants investigated for fraud (31 Aug 2006)
Australia Tax haven probe extends to companies (31 Aug 2006)
Transfer pricing audits raised more than $2.5 billion in assessments in the past five in Australia (31 Aug 2006)
VAT Carousel fraud clampdown increases red tape (31 Aug 2006)
Russia's Central Bank revoked the operating licenses of two banks over breaches of banking legislation, including the law on money laundering (31 Aug 2006)
Africa calls on Brown to block IMF reforms (31 Aug 2006)
PricewaterhouseCoopers & ExxonMobil tout total tax confusion (30 Aug 2006)
Tax authorities are eyeing banks’ structured finance teams (30 Aug 2006)
Jersey Hypocrisy (30 Aug 2006)
US IRS Auditing PwC’s Pension Plan, Deductions, Income Transfers (30 Aug 2006)
Corporate Tax Cuts Harm Most EU States, Not Netherlands (30 Aug 2006)
Finland cracking down on tax evasion by associations and foundations (30 Aug 2006)
Tax net and the big fish (30 Aug 2006)
Over 1 billion "working poor" are living under the US$2 per person, per day poverty line, including more than 330 million living in extreme poverty of less than US$1 a day (30 Aug 2006)

REALIZING DECENT WORK IN ASIA

600 million in Asia live on less than $1 a day (30 Aug 2006)
Chad, Chevron disputes heats up (30 Aug 2006)
Mauritius ready to prevent abuse of India tax pact (29 Aug 2006)
Transocean in $100 million Brazil Tax Fight (29 Aug 2006)
German Finance Ministry Confirms Billions Lost 65 billion euros ($82 billion) annually in Corporate Tax Evasion (29 Aug 2006)
The rock star and the accountant (29 Aug 2006)
Race to the Bottom: Bulgaria Aims at Beating Ireland's Corporate Tax (29 Aug 2006)
Chad demands stake in oil output (29 Aug 2006)
California's high court affirms formulas used for out-of-state firms in challenges brought by GM and Microsoft (29 Aug 2006)
Severe poverty hurts public health (29 Aug 2006)
Australia Court bid offers insight to tax case (29 Aug 2006)
$50m trove in Swiss tax investigation (29 Aug 2006)
Accounting firm booklets showed how to beat tax (28 Aug 2006)
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody: Ruthless Exploiters, Inc. (28 Aug 2006)
CHINA uncovered more than 50 money laundering cases involving almost 10 billion yuan (US$1.25 billion) (28 Aug 2006)
Chad oil company deadline expires (28 Aug 2006)
Wyly brothers under a microscope (28 Aug 2006)
Chad has given the oil companies Chevron and Petronas a 24-hour deadline to leave the country for not paying taxes (27 Aug 2006)
Chad ordered Chevron and Petronas to leave the country within 24 hours for failing to honor tax obligations (27 Aug 2006)
Chad orders foreign oil firms out for not paying taxes (27 Aug 2006)
Assembling a New International Financial Architecture: The Deeper Challenges (27 Aug 2006)
Thinking rationally about hierarchy and global governance (27 Aug 2006)
Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics (27 Aug 2006)
Tax Evasion and Avoidance by Nonprofit Organizations (27 Aug 2006)
Multinational Corporations and Global Production Networks: The Implications for Trade Policy (27 Aug 2006)
Capital Mobility and Tax Competition (27 Aug 2006)
India: Over 21% of MNCs indulge in tax evasion (27 Aug 2006)
Rich to get richer: Tories may abolish tax on shares (27 Aug 2006)
US taxman examines PwC's books (27 Aug 2006)
IRS auditing PricewaterhouseCoopers (26 Aug 2006)
Around one-third of Malaysians eligible to pay tax do not do so (26 Aug 2006)
Income-Tax Avoidance and Tax Equity: The Case of Germany (26 Aug 2006)
WHY CORPORATE TAXES MAY RISE: THE CASE OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND FOREIGN OWNERSHIP (26 Aug 2006)
Corruption in Economic Transition and Development: Grease or Sand? (26 Aug 2006)
On the Opportunity Cost of Corruption (26 Aug 2006)
Drug Trade Thrives On Corruption (26 Aug 2006)
US Stock option abuse may spur tax change (26 Aug 2006)
UK Football clubs face paying huge VAT backlog (26 Aug 2006)
Newcastle tax case exposes millions paid to agents (26 Aug 2006)
US IRS has launched an audit of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) over possible violations in reporting its own taxes (25 Aug 2006)
US IRS Audits PwC: Firm's partners could be liable for any penalties or back taxes (25 Aug 2006)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Biggest Accountant, Faces US IRS Audit (25 Aug 2006)
UK HMRC eyes up football clubs (25 Aug 2006)
Tasmanian farmers protest against tree plantations (25 Aug 2006)
Dirty money: the world of money laundering, and its consequences (25 Aug 2006)
US AID PROGRAM IN GEORGIA FACES CRITICISM OVER TRANSPARENCY (25 Aug 2006)
Interest tax avoidance schemes raise doubts (24 Aug 2006)
Corruption in Africa: The UK Connection (24 Aug 2006)
“Political” Lobbying on Proposed Standards: A Challenge to the IASB (24Aug 2006)
Jersey: Who Pays? Not Banks! (24 Aug 2006)
Jersey's Hidden Tax havens (24 Aug 2006)
Philips hit by corruption probe (24 Aug 2006)
Wells Fargo should have been publicly cited for weak money-laundering safeguards, a report says (24 Aug 206)
US Senator’s report worries St. Kitts Chamber's president (24 Aug 2006)
Australian Lawyer linked to illegal tax schemes (24 Aug 2006)
PAUL Hogan and John Cornell are being investigated for allegedly holding $40 million in secret trusts and offshore companies (24 Aug 2006)
Realizing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Communities, Courts and the Academy (24 Aug 2006)
More Jersey hypocrisy (23 Aug 2006)
The List: Where the Cash Is Stashed (23 Aug 2006)
Bank of New York Exec Sentenced for Money Laundering (23 Aug 2006)
Spreading alarm over death duties in middle England is no way to open a debate on social justice and taxation (22 Aug 2006)
Azerbajan Releases Its Fourth EITI Report (22 Aug 2006)
Some in Europe can save big with utility tax-avoidance plans (22 Aug 2006)
Ghana: VAT Service Recovers ¢1.034bn From 3 Companies (22 Aug 2006)
Niente tasse siamo autonomi (21 Aug 2006)
UK Revenue in dock over VAT carousel fraud (21 Aug 2006)
Bill to Prevent Corporate Tax Avoidance Heads to California Governor (21 Aug 2006)
UK HM Revenue & Customs may be targeting Channel Islands firms in its investigations of offshore structures (21 Aug 2006)
Hollinger: Conrad Black faces more tax charges (21 Aug 2006)
Mobile phone VAT raid said to be "tip of the iceberg" (21 Aug 2006)
A paradise mystery and dirty deeds in the Caribbean (20 Aug 2006)
Tax barrister swaps sides (19 Aug 2006)
Personal Income Taxation: The Cornerstone of the Tax System in Democratic Spain (19 Aug 2006)
Financing Local to Global Public Goods: An Integrated Green Tax Shift Perspective (19 Aug 2006)
Finally, India admits to abuse of the taxation treaty by FIIs (18 Aug 2006)
New Czech Government To Seek Simple Taxes;Not Flat Tax (18 Aug 2006)
Tax Cheats Steal From Everyone (17 Aug 2006)
US Court Says KPMG's Tax Memos Privileged (17 Aug 2006)
Seventeen face VAT fraud charges (16 Aug 2006)
Twenty-two held in VAT fraud hunt (15 Aug 2006)
22 held in major VAT fraud probe (15 Aug 2006)
India looks to plug tax avoidance (15 Aug 2006)
Backpedaling at the US IRS (14 Aug 2006)
UK HMRC seeks to fingerprint suspects (14 Aug 2006)
Ireland Account-holders move funds to avoid EU rules (13 Aug 2006)
Christians call for monetary justice as Bono weathers tax storm (12 Aug 2006)
From millionaire musicians to the middle classes, tax avoidance has become utterly respectable. Is it time to start rewarding those who do pay their way? (12 Aug 2006)
Christians call for monetary justice as Bono weathers tax storm (12 Aug 2006)
Pop singer Bono in tax avoidance (12 Aug 2006)
Business and short-termism - Why investor taxation is the solution (12 Aug 2006)
US State pension fund includes investment in company facing questions on tax strategies (12 Aug 2006)
US IRS wants another $324 million from Cadence for transfer pricing (11 Aug 2006)
Joseph Rowntree and Flat Tax - an exercise in naive thinking (11 Aug 2006)
Flatter taxes could help people on low incomes, says Rowntree Foundation (11 Aug 2006)
More myths about flat tax (11 Aug 2006)
Former CEO of Natwest Offshore becomes director general of the Jersey Financial Services Commission (11 Aug 2006)
Get tough on tax cheaters (10 Aug 2006)
Found what you're looking for? U2 inspire Irish ire by avoiding tax (9 Aug 2006)
In A Word: Tax Shelter – While the wealthy get wealthier the poor get letters, fined and penalized (7 Aug 2006)
No haven for tax cheats (6 Aug 2006)
How investigators from London and Lagos have linked up to combat corruption and fraud in Nigeria (6 Aug 2006)
Who would Jesus tax? (3 Aug 2006)
Boss of Faurecia, Pierre Levi, has resigned following the start of a criminal investigation into alleged bribery (3 Aug 2006)
Avoidance will not damage reputation, says firms selling tax avoidance services (3 Aug 2006)
US IRS chief asks Congress to fight offshore tax havens (3 Aug 2006)
Isle of Man central to global tax evasion, says US Senate Report (3 Aug 2006)
What Could $150 Billion in Unpaid Taxes Buy? (3 Aug 2006)
The Halifax Summit Review of the International Financial Institutions - Background Documents (3 Aug 2006)
The Rolling Stones paid just 1.6 per cent in tax on earnings of $US152 million (2 Aug 2006)
Rolling Stones find satisfaction in offshore tax shelter (2 Aug 2006)
Rolling Stones pay just 1.6% tax (2 Aug 2006)
Jersey Mail order company facing VAT backlash (2 Aug 2006)
Jersey Court defeat to cost RBS £25m (2 Aug 2006)
Scottish Re Group and its links to offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands (2 Aug 2006)
Bank of America admits errors to Senate but says it is now more stringent in efforts to fight money laundering (2 Aug 2006)
New indictments in KPMG tax scandal in Norway (2 Aug 2006)
Norwegians in KPMG tax scandal (2 Aug 2006)
Offshore tax havens: TOUGHER RULES WOULD CREATE A MORE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD (2 Aug 2006)
A Circle of Abuse and Cronyism : Tax Evaders Use Political Connections (2 Aug 2006)
World economy helps rich avoid taxes (2 Aug 2006)
Investment firm used a series of fake securities deals between offshore shell companies to help rich clients shelter more than $2 billion in capital gains from taxes (2 Aug 2006)
US blows the whistle on tax cheats (2 Aug 2006)
Deloitte masterminds VAT victory as UK House of Lords upholds ruling on credit card handling charges (1 Aug 2006)
UK accountants moan about FASB Interpretation Number 48 – Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (1 Aug 2006)
Tax cheating out of control, US Senate says (1 Aug 2006)
US IRS Chief Says Offshore Abuses a Problem (1 Aug 2006)
US Senate report recommends penal action against law and accounting firms, banks and investment advisers that enable tax havens abuses (1 Aug 2006)
Offshore havens reported to cheat U.S. of $100 billion (1 Aug 2006)
Wealthy Americans avoid paying $40 billion a year in U.S. taxes through illegal offshore havens (1 Aug 2006)

TAX HAVEN ABUSES: THE ENABLERS, THE TOOLS AND SECRECY, US SENATE REPORT (1 Aug 2006)

Cadbury's tastes bitter tax defeat (1 Aug 2006)
Herbert Smith law firm not to act for clients suing the big four accountancy firms (1 Aug 2006)
Cayman based bank named in proceedings over failed fund (1 Aug 2006)

JULY 2006

New plan to crack down on money laundering (31 Jul 2006)
For rich, tax avoidance gets easier (31 Jul 2006)
Shell project faces tax haven criticisms (31 Jul 2006)
Manhattan District Attorney probing Isle of Man tax shelters (31 Jul 2006)
US Probes Isle of Man Scheme Used by Billionaire Bush Donors (31 Jul 2006)
London could be 'fraud honeypot' (31 Jul 2006)
US IRS Conducting Own Stock Options Investigations (31 Jul 2006)
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE MARKETPLACE: ACCOUNTANTS AND BUSINESS EXECUTIVES REPEATING HISTORY (31 Jul 2006)
Tax Justice Network Welcomes US Senate Hearings on Tax Havens Abuses (30 Jul 2006)
Shell's Bermuda arm seeks money from UK taxpayers (30 Jul 2006)
US IRS to cut estate tax auditing workforce with buyouts (29 Jul 2006)
US IRS will cut the number of auditors assigned to examining estate tax returns (29 Jul 2006)
US IRS probing stock-option backdating (29 Jul 2006)
Bank of New York Money Laundering Case Ends (29 Jul 2006)
Barclays faces Paris money laundering trial (29 Jul 2006)
UK Transfers Former Nigerian Governor's Money (29 Jul 2006)
Corruption Eased in Transition Countries From 2002-2005, Reports World Bank (29 Jul 2006)

Read the World Bank Report

Why haven’t the UK and EU got someone like Senator Carl Levin? (28 JUl 2006)
Australia Tax haven suspects may face money laundering charges (28 Jul 2006)
Singapore sets up Tax Academy to enhance standards of tax professionals (28 Jul 2006)
U.N. Report Calls for New Spirituality: The Creation of Two Organizations to Aid International Tax Enforcement (28 Jul 2006)
JERSEY Attac - JULY/AUGUST 2006 NEWSLETTER (27 Jul 2006)
UK Taxman closes cash free pension lump sum loophole (27 Jul 2006)
EU Taxation: Reduced VAT rates for labour-intensive services (27 Jul 2006)
VAT fraud drives booming UK exports (27 Jul 2006)
Russia slaps Chevron pipeline company with back tax bill (27 Jul 2006)
Sell-out: Why hedge funds will destroy the world (27 Jul 2006)
Judge again scolds U.S. in KPMG Tax cases (27 Jul 2006)
US Senate Committee to Investigate Offshore Abuses: The Enablers, The Tools & Offshore Secrecy (26 Jul 2006)
Pinochet's Dutch Secret (26 Jul 2006)
Vector to pay $42M for accounting change (26 Jul 2006)
Japan's Potter translator feuds with tax officials (26 Jul 2006)
Tax the Rich (25 Jul 2006)
US States worry about losses under tax bill (25 Jul 2006)
Boss of the collapsed Westpoint property group holds shares in 21 companies, many of which own significant assets - Guernsey implicated (25 Jul 2006)
The Crocodile Dundee tax plot thickens (25 Jul 2006)
Price of Tax Avoidance: UK Council tax up 96% in 10 years (25 Jul 2006)
NYC Sues Tobacco Wholesalers Over Taxes (25 Jul 2006)
Poor nations 'being pushed back' (24 Jul 2006)
Taiwanese companies route money through the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and other tax havens to circumvent Chinese restrictions (24 Jul 2006)
Deeply indebted states feel their sovereignty is threatened because they cannot even draft budgets without the consent of international financial institutions (24 Jul 2006)
Tory thinktank calls for annual levy on UK residential property (24 Jul 2006)
US IRS to cut audits on wealthiest (23 Jul 2006)
Russians coming to UK to seize suspects (23 Jul 2006)
Has internet gambling run out of luck? (23 Jul 2006)
Many hedge funds operate out of offshore UK territories such as in the Cayman Islands (23 JUl 2006)
IHT shock ahead for UK millions (22 Jul 2006)
Australian businessmen allegedly involved in a $305 million offshore tax evasion scam blamed their accountant (22 Jul 2006)
AustraliaTax fraud probe widens (22 Jul 2006)
Brits lead property surge into Monaco (22 Jul 2006)
Tax shelter ruling could affect KPMG case (21 Jul 2006)
New clampdown on VAT carousel fraud (21 Jul 2006)
Judge rules tax shelter in KPMG case is legitimate (21 Jul 2006)
Tax Policy Development in Denmark, Italy, the Slovak Republic and Turkey (20 Jul 2006)
EU vetoes ‘reverse charge’ VAT proposal (20 Jul 2006)
UK Treasury losses from VAT carousel fraud may reach £10bn by end of year (20 Jul 2006)
Mapeley shortlisted for the Workplace 2010 contract, involving the sell-off of dozens of Northern Ireland Government offices (20 Jul 2006)
Pakistan protests UK decision to tax Pakistani cricketers (20 Jul 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Timber tax scam 'costing PNG $100m a year' (20 Jul 2006)
The taxing issues facing Peter Hain (20 Jul 2006)
KPMG trial postponed over tardy documents (20 Jul 2006)
Judge Postpones KPMG Fraud Trial (20 Jul 2006)
Boss quits post at troubled Yukos (20 Jul 2006)
We need to popularise the role of the state for this age (20 Jul 2006)
An open invitation to KPMG to talk (19 Jul 2006)
From debate to action – drawing the lines and finding the balance – legislation, principles and codes (19 Jul 2006)
Reversing “tax liberation” (19 Jul 2006)
UK Taxman given more search and seizure powers (19 Jul 2006)
Isle of Man extends Consolidation and Review of Financail Services Legislation (CAROL) consultation deadline (19 Jul 2006)
US lawyers deal online body blow (19 Jul 2006)
Jersey Tax Dodge: Call to close cheap CDs loophole (18 Jul 2006)
Kenya: State Loses Sh676 Million in Another Tax Scam by Exporters (18 Jul 2006)
Undue credit: Credit cards linked to tax scams (18 Jul 2006)
THE names of almost 2000 possible tax cheats have been handed to the Australian Taxation Office (18 Jul 2006)
U.S. Official: Corruption in Iraq Oil (18 Jul 2006)
UK Review to advise stiffer sentences for fraud (18 Jul 2006)
FINANCE AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION (18 Jul 2006)
Thailand: TOPPLING THAKSIN (18 Jul 2006)
Ghana's ruthless corporate gold rush (18 Jul 2006)
Do you want to be a millionaire: The missing VAT fraudster (17 Jul 2006)
Apple firm re-registers as unlimited company in Ireland (17 Jul 2006)
Apple does a Microsoft and goes for secrecy in Ireland (17 Jul 2006)
Tax Avoidance: MICROSOFT CUT IRISH TAX RATE TO 10% (17 Jul 2006)
UK Inland Revenue forced 1,724 companies to change their transfer pricing practices (16 Jul 2006)
UK companies unwilling to come clean and reduce uncertainty on transfer pricing challenges (16 Jul 2006)
The British should emulate the Americans' vigorous fraud-busting approach (16 Jul 2006)
Blairusconi's Britain - just a little Italy? (16 Jul 2006)
The Growth Performance of Developing Countries in the Last Thirty Years. Who gained? Who Lost? (16 Jul 2006)
Space-bound ex-Livedoor exec 'Dice -K' hit for huge tax dodge (15 Jul 2006)
Carousel VAT fraud costs will soar, admit UK Revenue & Customs (15 Jul 2006)
New Labour Sleaze and tax havens (15 Jul 2006)
Farce and reality of morality (15 Jul 2006)
FASB Hoists Red Flags Higher for Taxman (15 Jul 2006)
Cayman Islands: Still Fighting Against The Firm image (15 Jul 2006)
UK VAT fraud 'reaches record levels' (14 Jul 2006)
VAT fraud threat (14 Jul 2006)
KPMG faces lawsuit by former partners over illegal tax shelters case (14 Jul 2006)
Estee Lauder Reaches Tax Settlement (14 Jul 2006)
Why bother about corruption? (14 Jul 2006)
Tax on Compensation of Capital: A Conceivable EU Initiative (14 Jul 2006)
Taxation is at the centre of development (14 Jul 2006)
Corruption: UK Government’s aid paper ‘could do better’ says Christian Aid (13 Jul 2006)
UK wants tougher corruption curbs to make aid to Africa work (13 Jul 2006)

UK Government White Paper on International Development, 'eliminating world poverty: making governance work for the poor' (14 Jul 2006)

Moving to Territoriality? Implications for the United States and the Rest of the World (14 Jul 2006)
2004/2005 Jersey Household Expenditure Survey (13 Jul 2006)
Deutsche Bank's Role in US Tax Shelters Being Examined (13 Jul 20060
Former KPMG employees suing firm (13 Jul 2006)
Air France-KLM CEO summoned before judge in money-laundering probe (13 Jul 2006)
US IRS Win Appeal in Tax Shelter Case (13 Jul 2006)
US halts Halliburton's exclusive Iraq deal (13 Jul 2006)
New UK fund to fight corruption in Africa (13 Jul 2006)
Suspected abuse of charity tax rules sparks UK Tax raids (13 Jul 2006)
Know the Enemy: Devereux sets tax research agenda (13 Jul 2006)
The Art of the Impossible: Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Balance in Canada (13 Jul 2006)
Barclays’ CSR does not add up - by £1.5 billion (13 Jul 2006)
EU’s evasion crackdown fails to live up to tough guy image (13 Jul 2006)
Tax Treatment of Business Investments in Intellectual Assets (13 Jul 2006)
Ex-Partners Sue KPMG for Legal Fees (13 Jul 2006)
German business taxes to undercut neighbours (13 Jul 2006)
Hedge fund managers hit back at criticism from the Bank of England that they are weakening UK financial stability (12 Jul 2006)
Condé Nast ruling paves the way for £100m VAT rebates (12 Jul 2006)
UK Taxman to pay out hundreds of millions on VAT cases (12 Jul 2006)
Hooked on bribes: Is Russia's 'new capitalism' addicted to corruption? (12 Jul 2006)
£1.17bn cost of UK tax credit fraud and errors is double the predicted sum (12 Jul 2006)
Transfer pricing cloud over foreign banks in India (11 Jul 2006)
Japan: Mizutani in 2 billion yen tax dodge (11 Jul 2006)
Europe allows UK to change VAT rules to counter fraud (11 Jul 2006)
UK Tax credit frauds 'total £540m' (11 Jul 2006)
VAT fraud 'is skewing trade figures' (11 Jul 2006)
VAT fraud costing Europe €50bn a year (11 Jul 2006)
UK profits from sub-Saharan Africa despite aid and debt pledges (11 Jul 2006)
Transfer pricing cloud over foreign banks in India (11 Jul 2006)
The Irish join the world's wealthiest (11 Jul 2006)
Microsoft does tax avoidance in secret (10 Jul 2006)
MONACO’S TAX HAVEN IS 'HOME' TO 650 BRITISH COMPANY DIRECTORS (10 Jul 2006)
Monaco: The tax haven that today's super rich City commuters call home (10 Jul 2006)
From AABA/TJN Workshop on Tax Avoidance (9 Jul 2006)

Tax Avoidance, Capital Flight and Poverty in Nigeria by Owolabi M Bakre
The India / Mauritius Double Taxation Treaty: A salutary tale by Chris Bratcher
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance (paper) by Alex Cobham
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance (Slides) by Alex Cobham
The Plato Index: a new international comparative measure of tax progressivity (abstract) by Valpy FitzGerald
The Plato Index: a new international comparative measure of tax progressivity (Slides) by Valpy FitzGerald
The impact of tax and corruption in Kenya : Views of young women (Paper) by Rose Otieno
The impact of tax and corruption in Kenya : Views of young women (Slides) by Rose Otieno
Estimates of Capital Movements from African Countries to the U.S. through Trade Mispricing (Abstract) by Simon J. Pak
Estimates of Capital Movements from African Countries to the U.S. through Trade Mispricing by Simon J. Pak
Financialisation: constructing shareholder value … for some by Alan Robb and Sue Newberry
The Tobin Tax in the 21st Century: Financing Development & Promoting International Financial Stability by Stephen Spratt
Financial Flows and Treasury Management Firms (paper) by Jim Stewart
Financial Flows and Treasury Management Firms (Slides) by Jim Stewart
Owning IFI tax proposals in developing countries (Abstract) by Miranda Stewart
Owning IFI tax proposals in developing countries (Slides) by Miranda Stewart

Japan: Machinery exec held over taxes (9 Jul 2006)
Why U.S. Companies Shouldn't Whine About Taxes (9 Jul 2006)
Indonesia: Anatomy of a Banking Crisis (8 Jul 2006)
HAVING THEIR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO: THE BIG CORPORATE TAX BREAK (8 Jul 2006)
Enhancing transparency through NEITI legislation in Nigeria (8 Jul 2006)
Germany has passed a bill to up the tax rate for the wealthiest earners (8 Jul 2006)
UK Minister Jowell's husband must face tax trial with Berlusconi (8 Jul 2006)
Berlusconi to stand trial for fraud (8 Jul 2006)
Jersey Voter numbers drop by thousands (8 Jul 2006)
Mills to stand trial on fraud charges (8 Jul 2006)
Poll to test Sark reform options (8 Jul 2006)
Tax Battles off the football field (7 Jul 2006)
Rover bosses face new tax challenge (7 Jul 2006)
Israel Discount Bank reveals money laundering loopholes (7 Jul 2006)
KBC, Suspected of Money-Laundering, Says No Sign of Wrongdoing (7 Jul 2006)
Kenya's corruption investigator is sacked (7 Jul 2006)
Online Sales Tax: Time to Pay Up (7 Jul 2006)
Consequences of profit maximisation: Low earners 'live shorter lives' (7 Jul 2006)

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Westpoint's Carey reveals business methods (7 Jul 2006)
European Commission's president has sharply criticised the tax breaks awarded to companies by some Swiss cantons (6 Jul 2006)
EU tax on offshore savings falls flat (6 Jul 2006)
UK Avoidance rules 'will be vague' (6 Jul 2006)
Tax Justice Focus - Vol 2 No 2 (5 Jul 2006)
Survey of Jersey Financial Institutions 2005 (5 Jul 2006)
UK profits from sub-Saharan Africa despite aid and debt pledges (5 Jul 2006)
SEC Looking at KPMG, First Union Relationship (5 Jul 2006)
Former Champion Jockey Fallon implicated in fraud and money laundering scandal (5 Jul 2006)
Horseracing rocked by fixing charges against champion jockey Fallon (5 Jul 2006)
Westpoint boss denies withholding assets - Guernsey implicated (5 Jul 2006)
They like public subsidies: Zero-10 is good for all, says Guernsey IOD (5 Jul 2006)
Fast company formation ‘could harm’ Gurensey (5 Jul 2006)
New Jersey Wants To Collect Internet Sales Taxes (5 Jul 2006)
Euro MPs push for air fuel taxes (5 Jul 2006)
Hedge funds: Playing dice with the universe (5 Jul 2006)
That's American?: Companies based here shouldn't be foreign for taxes and domestic for benefits (4 Jul 2006)
Guernsey’s tax plans ‘subsidise the rich’ (4 Jul 2006)
Global Inequality and Global Finance (4 Jul 2006)
Money Laundering and Capital Flight (4 Jul 2006)
Financial Liberalisation and Financial Fraud: Revisiting the 1990s (4 Jul 2006)
Vulnerability of Power Sector from Financial Globalisation (4 Jul 2006)
Neoliberal imperialism, corporate feudalism and the contemporary origins of dirty money (4 Jul 2006)
When Fragile becomes Friable: Endemic Control Fraud as a Cause of Economic Stagnation and Collapse (4 Jul 2006)
Enron links beyond the NatWest Three (4 Jul 2006)
Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism - Review of the Quality and Consistency of Assessment Reports and the Effectiveness of Coordination (4 Jul 2006)
Italy's Consob says football scandal raise queries on clubs listing (4 Jul 2006)
Cameron's set has no clue what middle England earns (4 Jul 2006)
Sony disputes allegations of underpaid taxes (4 Jul 2006)
Brits are poorer than five years ago because of taxes and energy bills (4 Jul 2006)
Champion jockey Fallon charged with plotting to defraud gamblers (3 Jul 2006)
Poverty on Jersey will get worse (3 Jul 2006)
Jersey: Evidence on the Income Support Scheme and the Nordic Model Alternative to the Scrutiny Sub-Panel (3 Jul 2006)
How a UK banker helps US clients trim their taxes (3 Jul 2006)
Guernsey Tax change plans 'just a subsidy' (3 Jul 2006)
'India's millionaires don't often pay taxes' (3 Jul 2006)
Tax breaks across borders: U.K. Barclays group helps banks play systems against each other (3 Jul 2006)
Barclays and its tax trick (3 Jul 2006)
Barclays Bank and the £3.5 billion cost of tax avoidance (3 Jul 2006)
IS GLOBALIZATION MAKING WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION MORE EQUAL? (3 Jul 2006)
GLOBALIZATION, POVERTY AND INCOM DISTRIBUTION: DOES THE LIBERAL AGUMENT HOLD? (3 Jul 2006)
BAE bribe scandal charges looming (3 Jul 2006)
Lawsuits fly after US IRS condemns firms' tax shelters (3 Jul 2006)
Liechtenstein aims to change financial image (3 Jul 2006)
The 100 Worst Corporate Citizens (2 Jul 2006)
Tax incentives produce perverse effects - another nail in the Celtic Tiger’s coffin (2 Jul 2006)
The tax breaks that mean the rich pay less than anyone else (2 Jul 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tetrapak tax recluse gives £100,000 to UK Conservatives (2 Jul 2006)
Let's not admire tax avoidance (2 Jul 2006)
Offshore company seeks U.S. tax loophole (2 Jul 2006)
CD, video pirates find safe haven in Mexico (2 Jul 2006)
5 sentenced in scam to dodge taxes through "pure trust organizations" (1 Jul 2006)
Rich avoid taxes as soaring tax bills hit Britons' disposable incomes (1 Jul 2006)

JUNE 2006

UK Criminal taxes hit squad aims to give fraudsters the Al Capone treatment (30 Jun 2006)
KPMG Tax Shelter Defendants' Unity Starts to Fray at the Edges (30 Jun 2006)
Preferential tax and economic growth (30 Jun 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Sony ordered to pay a total of ¥27.9 billion (US$239.9 million) in additional taxes (30 Jun 2006)
Mazda Motor Corp. and trading houses Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corp hit for back taxes (30 Jun 2006)
Japan's Mitsubishi Corp ordered to pay 2.2 bln yen in additional tax (30 Jun 2006)
Tax refund case boost for multinationals (30 Jun 2006)
Spain Pushes Anti-Fraud Laws After Probe Nets Horses, Hotels (30 Jun 2006)
South Korean prosecutors have raided the offices of Korea Exchange Bank (30 Jun 2006)
South Korea Supreme Court found president of Chosun Ilbo guilty of tax evasion and embezzlement (30 Jun 2006)
Labuan designated as tax haven by South Korea (30 Jun 2006)
Symantec and transfer pricing (30 Jun 2006)
US Pimps May be Targeted for Tax Evasion (30 Jun 2006)
Japan 'needs to tackle bribery' (30 Jun 2006)
A year after Live 8, rich countries have failed to keep their promise (30 Jun 2006)
Dirty Secrets of the Temple (30 Jun 2006)
UK tycoon avoids £600,000 income tax bill (29 Jun 2006)
Collection of UK Company Taxes Must Improve, Lawmakers Say (29 Jun 2006)
Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp will pay 300 million yen ($2.59 million) in back taxes after being accused of hiding income over three years (29 Jun 2006)
FDI into OECD countries jumps 27% in 2005 - it could be round-tripping or sale of the household silver (29 Jun 2006)

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Jersey: The Politics of Senator Syvret (28 Jun 2006)
The new Jersey Democratic Alliance (28 Jun 2006)
Comment la République Démocratique du Congo a-t-elle été vendue à vil prix aux étrangers? (28 Jun 2006)
Chinese government officials lost more than $1.5bn (£800m) last year through corruption and poor tax collection (28 Jun 2006)
UK GENERAL TAX AVOIDANCE RULE: DEBATE STEPS UP A GEAR (28 Jun 2006)
30 arrested in Marbella corruption crackdown (28 Jun 2006)
Japan: Takeda Pharm Hit With Y57 bn ($500 million) in Back Taxes As It Denies Not Reporting Income (28 Jun 2006)
Japan's Takeda says ordered to pay 57 bln yen more in taxes (28 Jun 2006)
South Korea seeks to tax Labuan-based funds (28 Jun 2006)
Lone Star Avoids Withholding Tax (28 Jun 2006)
Judge blasts pressure put on KPMG over legal fees (28 Jun 2006)
ENOUGH OF ROYAL DUES AND DON'TS (28 Jun 2006)
EU Company Taxation: Code of Conduct on transfer pricing documentation (27 Jun 2006)
Developed nations faulted over firms' foreign bribery (27 Jun 2006)
Enforcement of OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Ireland not doing enough: new report (27 Jun 2006)
Ireland: 43 people earning €1m paid under 5% tax in 2002 (27 Jun 2006)
Ireland: Top six of nation’s super-rich paid nothing in tax (27 Jun 2006)
35% of India's population lives on less than $1 a day (27 Jun 2006)
Judge: US at fault in pressuring KPMG partners over tax shelters case (27 Jun 2006)
After Greed Comes Charity as Buffett Gives Away Fortune (27 Jun 2006)
Profitable tax dodge (27 Jun 2006)
Enron UK three face trial in US (27 Jun 2006)
Lubricants of corruption (27 Jun 2006)
Transparency Begins at Home: An Assessment of United States Revenue Transparency and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Requirements (26 Jun 2006)
IASB comes under pressure from NGOs to increase corporate accountability (26 Jun 2006)

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Guernsey Finance group's warning over tax (26 Jun 2006)
Money-laundering is a global issue (26 Jun 2006)
Tanzania’s current agreements with multinational mining companies committed the country to lopsided contracts (26 Jun 2006)
UK Revenue puts avoidance under fresh scrutiny (26 JUn 2006)
UK Tax officials have embarked on a study of the way that general anti-avoidance rules are used (26 Jun 2006)
UK is determined to close the tax gap (26 Jun 2006)
Has the G8 met its promises to Africa? (26 Jun 2006)
Britain's Wealth Explosion by Stewart Lansley (25 Jun 2006)
Gender Bias in Tax Systems: The Example of Ghana by Bianca Pfeuffer and Sören Weißert (25 Jun 2006)
Stock Options – Accounting Treatments – The Impact on Policy, Practice and Performance by David Ewers (25 Jun 2006)
Accounting for (In)Visibilities: Resistance, Gender and Control by Roger Johnston and Orthodoxia Kyriacou (25 Jun 2006)
Charterhouse distances itself from money laundering claim (25 Jun 2006)
Head of Kenya Anti-Corruption Group Fired (25 Jun 2006)
Juventus led corruption (25 Jun 2006)
Ireland: 1,400 avoid tax on house inheritance (25 Jun 2006)
Korea Faces Uphill Battle to Revise Tax Treaty With Belgium (25 Jun 2006)
PricewaterhouseCoopers at it again as Britannia face £20m bill after UK tax swoop (25 Jun 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Court abandons trial of Yukos appeal against extra tax claim (24 Jun 2006)
Kenyan bank shutdown over money laundering scam (24 Jun 2006)
Dirty Money (24 Jun 2006)
Biggest purveyor of terrorist money are bank accounts in Saudi Arabia (24 Jun 2006)
US under fire over secret money transfer monitoring (24 Jun 2006)
UK Government response to Africa corruption report (23 Jun 2006)
UK small traders demanding the closure of the Channel Islands VAT loophole (23 Jun 2006)
Wealthy play sales tax dodge (23 Jun 2006)
US defends secret money tracking (23 Jun 2006)
Korea Belatedly Presses Italy on 'Tax-Haven' Label (23 Jun 2006)
Flaw Uncovered in Tax Diplomacy (23 Jun 2006)
UK is to set up a police task force to tackle international corruption (23 Jun 2006)
Uganda: 'Corruption Fueling Smuggling' (23 Jun 2006)
Italian football heavyweights Juventus, AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina will all face a sports court over allegations of corruption (23 Jun 2006)
The Rise of the OECD as Informal ‘world tax organization’ through the Shaping of National Responses to E-commerce Tax Challenges (22 Jun 2006)
Jersey Offshore tax evasion continues (22 Jun 2006)
Charterhouse Bank abetted tax evasion in Kenya (22 Jun 2006)
Kenya: Strange dealings unearthed at Charterhouse bank (22 Jun 2006)
Cigarette smuggling is costing the UK taxpayer almost £3bn in lost VAT and customs duties (22 Jun 2006)
Cigarette smuggling tax loss to the UK in 2003/4 was £2.9 billion (22 Jun 2006)
12bn cigarettes smuggled into the UK and the taxpayers lost £2.9 billion in taxes (22 Jun 2006)

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Price of Tax Avoidance: One in ten UK pensioners has to live on a paltry £8.49 a day (22 Jun 2006)
Australia Tax Office declares wins over mass tax avoidance schemes (22 Jun 2006)
Nordic finance ministers target tax havens (21 Jun 2006)
Money from Eta’s extortion racket was sent to offshore tax havens (21 Jun 2006)
Rich get even richer in third world (21 Jun 2006)
Textron, US IRS embroiled in tax battle over shelters (21 Jun 2006)
Liberalism failed to set us free. Indeed, it enslaved us (21 Jun 2006)
From Concept to Reality: On the present state of the debate on international taxes (20 Jun 2006)
17 MILLION UK HOUSEHOLDS WOULD LOSE OUT UNDER UK FLAT INCOME TAX AT 24 PER CENT (20 Jun 2006)
Wealth inequalities: 'Poorer still dying younger' (20 Jun 2006)
UK Companies anchored to tax regime in spite of discontent (20 Jun 2006)
Guatemalans Denounce Tax Evasion (20 Jun 2006)
Slovakia to consider reversal of the flat tax (20 Jun 2006)
Mexico's Populist Tilts at a Privileged Elite: Those of the pure upper class, the influential, don't pay the taxes (20 Jun 2006)
Fewer UK tax avoidance schemes promoted (20 Jun 2006)
Five years after Enron, culture of greed is back (20 Jun 2006)
Magistrate hands in report on Italian corruption (20 Jun 2006)
Sir Philip Green of Arcadia- the rewards of tax avoidance (19 Jun 2006)
Nomadic world of super-rich (19 Jun 2006)
UK VAT fraudsters are being helped by a small number of qualified tax advisers (19 Jun 2006)
The Nemesis for VAT fraudsters? (19 Jun 2006)
Jail Sentence for Mobile Phone Tax Fraud (19 Jun 2006)
IMF urges Haiti to collect more taxes (19 Jun 2006)
UK House of Lord Debate on Africa and Corruption (19 Jun 2006)
Nigeria President Surprised by Corruption (19 Jun 2006)
Nigerian President Surprised by Corruption (19 Jun 2006)
A New York hedge fund is in a court battle with the Republic of Congo over who is robbing the oil-rich but dirtpoor African nation (18 Jun 2006)
Lunatics running the asylum: Arcadia boss avoids taxes but gets knighthood (18 Jun 2006)
Haughey finances still shrouded in mystery (18 Jun 2006)
Anonymous US companies undermine OECD transparency (17 Jun 2006)
Delaware States’ secret revealed to investors (17 Jun 2006)
Jersey passes law allowing ‘sham’ trusts for use by tax evaders (16 Jun 2006)
India, Kuwait ink pact on avoidance of double tax (16 Jun 2006)
South Korea Seeks Info Pacts With Tax Havens (16 Jun 2006)
'Unreasonable' penalty resistance from UK Tax advisers (16 Jun 2006)
Sony loses PlayStation tax battle: Duty must be paid on consoles (16 Jun 2006)
Money laundering and the construction industry (16 Jun 2006)
Cameroon: World Report On Corruption Launched (16 Jun 2006)
World’s international NGOs endorse accountability charter (16 JUn 2006)
Head of largest Polish insurer suspected of money laundering (15 Jun 2006)
Money Laundering Canadian Style (15 Jun 2006)
Transfer Pricing Games: For oil industry, profits are one big shell game (15 Jun 2006)
Nigeria: Delta Moves to Check Tax Evasion (15 Jun 2006)
THE ECONOMICS OF CORPORATE TAX SELFISHNESS (15 Jun 2006)
Cambodian Prime Minister accuses the World Bank of hiring corrupt foreign consultants (15 Jun 2006)
Cambodian Leader Hun Sen Scolds World Bank (15 Jun 2006)
More GAAP-Tax Disclosure Recommended (15 Jun 2006)
UK Taxman sets 'hit squad' on big business (15 Jun 2006)
EU Savings Tax Directive: It is easily flouted (14 Jun 2006)
How the offshore world markets is services (14 Jun 2006)
Corporate Tax Avoidance in the US is Impossible to Measure (14 Jun 2006)
US Senate Finance Committee Hearings on Corporate Taxes

Bogdanchikov on Yuganskneftegaz: Case Closed (14 Jun 2006)
Jersey: European Union Savings Directive - Announcement of Amount of Retention Tax Collected (13 Jun 2006)
South Korea Seeks Info Pacts With Tax Havens (13 Jun 2006)
South Korea decided not to designate Belgium a tax haven (13 Jun 2006)
OPINION: Flat tax - Myth or reality? By Richard Murphy (site requires registration) (13 Jun 2006)
G8 Ministers resolve to fight money laundering and terrorism (13 Jun 2006)
Symantec settles one tax dispute for $36 million (13 Jun 2006)
VAT Fraud Accounts for Tenth of UK Exports (12 Jun 2006)
Investigating corporate corruption (12 Jun 2006)
Czech Republic could be on verge of adopting a flat tax (12 Jun 2006)
Carousel gangs cheat UK out of billions (11 Jun 2006)
VAT fraud accounts for tenth of UK exports (11 Jun 2006)
Companies complain about UK Tax dodging clampdown but give no commitment on ethical behaviour (11 Jun 2006)
Africa calls for a 'coffee Opec' (11 Jun 2006)
Hedge Funds tend to be registered offshore in obscure tax havens and are risky (11 Jun 2006)
Vulture funds are largely headquartered in offshore tax havens (11 Jun 2006)
The rich can be left to count their millions (10 Jun 2006)
Belgium: 686 million Euros laundered (10 Jun 2006)
New Zealand to extend money laundering regulations to cover lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, casinos and jewellers (10 Jun 2006)
New UK corruption probe linked to Saudi ‘slush fund’ allegations (10 Jun 2006)
The Australian lawyer, his clients and one huge fraud probe (10 Jun 2006)
UK government not tackling tax havens (10 Jun 2006)
Tax Havens and Naturalised killers (10 Jun 2006)
Korea Seeks Extradition of Lone Star Executive (10 Jun 2006)
Money Laundering and Tax Dodging: THE NEW EMIRATE ON THE SCHELDE (10 Jun 2006)
Contractors leave themselves open to tax scrutiny (10 Jun 2006)
Not conetnt with tax dodging Jersey now entices people into gambling (9 Jun 2006)
Buddhists lose land-tax bid (9 Jun 2006)
UK climb-down on trust tax (9 Jun 2006)
Second home owners should pay more tax, insists Lib Dems (9 Jun 2006)
Oxfam accuses UK of cutting aid (9 Jun 2006)
Jersey Group calls for elderly fuel help (8 Jun 2006)
ECJ forces review of multi-national tax (8 Jun 2006)
Biggest landowners face subsidy cut and about time too (8 Jun 2006)
British businessman arrested in fresh BAE corruption inquiry (8 Jun 2006)
The rootless world of the super-rich (8 Jun 2006)
OECD attacks tax information sharing restrictions (7 Jun 2006)
UK Budget changes may hit expats with money in offshore trusts (7 Jun 2006)
UK Customs to crack down on tax dodge (7 Jun 2006)
Some business entities claiming to be residents of Mauritius pay taxes neither in India nor in Mauritius (7 Jun 2006)
Global cross-border investment losses hit USD 10.5 billion (7 Jun 2006)
UK to close loan avoidance scheme (7 Jun 2006)
A flat tax for the UK? the implications of simplification - A Report by Richard Murphy (6 Jun 2006)
Governance Reform and Institutional Change in Brazil: Fiscal Responsibility and Tax (6 Jun 2006)
UK Treasury closes factoring loophole (6 Jun 2006)
South Africa cannot turn a blind eye to plunder and corruption (6 Jun 2006)
Kenya: Tax Defaulters Face Hefty Fines (6 Jun 2006)
Supreme Court gives US companies armour against racketeering lawsuits (6 Jun 2006)
Mis-selling fears over offshore bond spree (5 Jun 2006)
Mills boasts of new evidence to 'demolish' corruption case (5 Jun 2006)
Milan court considers whether Berlusconi and British corporate lawyer David Mills should stand trial for allegedly perverting the course of justice in two corruption trials (5 Jun 2006)
Tax breaks on celebrity ear studs (5 Jun 2006)
How Becks can save a fortune with tax breaks on his diamond ear studs (5 Jun 2006)
'Big Four' accountancy firms are working with large corporations to shift their base offshore (5 Jun 2006)
FIFA plans new ethics committee to fight corruption (5 Jun 2006)
JERSEY Attac - JUNE 2006 NEWSLETTER (4 Jun 2006)
Poverty in Jersey (4 Jun 2006)
The official UK “tax gap” accounts for at least 8% of GDP and could be as high as 12% — £97 billion to £150 billion (4 Jun 2006)
Citibank eyes super-rich in India (4 Jun 2006)
UK targets celebrities’ tax perk (4 Jun 2006)
How football stars avoid tackle by the taxman (4 Jun 2006)
Isle of Man based Fairground raises online gaming stakes (4 Jun 2006)
UK tax haven fuel a £58m Russian art revolution (4 Jun 2006)
Ireland Revenue’s net tightens on large-scale tax-evaders (4 Jun 2006)
Ireland Steel firm makes loss after paying €9.5m in tax settlement (4 Jun 2006)
South Korea's Anti-Foreigner Backlash, Rising Won Threaten Boom (4 Jun 2006)
US Judge Approves $154 Million KPMG Tax Settlement (3 Jun 2006)
US Judge OKs settlement in KPMG tax case (3 Jun 2006)
Anti-corruption detectives are examining documents detailing the client accounts of ISC Global (UK) on alleged offshore bribes (2 Jun 2006)
Australian Crime Commission to lay criminal charges over a huge international tax avoidance scheme by Jersey accountant (2 Jun 2006)
Vivendi pays $686m to settle US tax dispute over Seagram deal (2 Jun 2006)
Vivendi Agrees to Pay $686 Million to US (2 Jun 2006)
Charity at centre of £14m tax con probe (2 Jun 2006)
Venezuela hands Statoil $1.6 mln back tax bill (2 Jun 2006)
Severstal's tequila sunset (2 Jun 2006)
U.S. Bancorp, McCormack Baron receive $195M in tax credits (2 Jun 2006)
EU Commission welcomes phasing out of Spain’s tax incentives for investment abroad (2 Jun 2006)
United States and Germany Sign Protocol to Income Tax Treaty (2 Jun 2006)
US Tax Time Will Be More Taxing (2 Jun 2006)
Fifa to probe Arsenal's feeder-club deal (2 Jun 2006)
EU Commission proposes new actions against rampant tax fraud (1 Jun 2006)
Investment doors close in Korea (1 Jun 2006)
Lid lifts on apartheid-era corruption in Namibia (1 Jun 2006)
Corruption under apartheid in South Africa involved officials at the highest level (1 Jun 2006)
EU backs VAT change to halt £5bn exports fraud (1 Jun 2006)
Spanish court considers reopening Berlusconi corruption probe (1 Jun 2006)
Bermuda is best captive domicile (1 Jun 2006)

MAY 2006

Spanish court considers reopening Berlusconi corruption probe (31 May 2006)
Money Laundering and Capital Flight (31 May 2006)
Money Laundering and Income Tax Evasion: The Determination of Optimal Audits
and Inspections to Detect Abnormal Prices in International Trade (31 May 2006)
Money Laundering Methods, Trends and Typologies (31 May 2006)
Hedge funds vulnerable to money laundering, fraud and terrorist financing (31 May 2006)
Anti-corruption prosecutors in Spain target Berlusconi (31 May 2006)
Tax Advantage Is Driving Deal To Buy Braves (31 May 2006)
Goldman Sachs boss becomes US treasury secretary (31 May 2006)
Transfer Pricing Abuses (31 May 2006)
STUDY CITES MONEY LAUNDERING BY U.S. DIAMOND JEWELRY RETAILERS (31 May 2006)
President Putin says that it is necessary to perfect tax control on transfer pricing (31 May 2006)
Brussels urges VAT reforms to crack down on fraud (30 May 2006)
Brussels to set VAT in fraud move (30 May 2006)
FTSE100 companies 'have 15,000 subsidiaries' (30 May 2006)
The corporate maze: Almost half of the more than 15,000 incorporated companies within FTSE 100 groups are dormant (30 May 2006)
Goldman Sachs immersed in scadnals but its chairman is nominated as the US treasury secretary (30 May 2006)
Coffee exporters stall Guatemala tax evasion law (30 May 2006)
OECD countries, offshore financial centres report progress on exchange of information (30 May 2006)
OECD Countries Strengthen Measures to Deter Bribery in Export Credits (30 May 2006)
UK Taxman reaches to trim hedge fund fees (30 May 2006)
Politician proposes funding EU through tax on texts and emails (30 May 2006)
Tax breathing, not chocolate cake (30 May 2006)
Offshore tax risk to hedge fund managers (30 May 2006)
'Corruption' curbs Cambodia cash (30 May 2006)
PwC Sells Corporate Service Unit in the Cayman Islands (30 May 2006)
The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism (29 May 2006)
Citigroup and its Jersey links: a culture and history of tax evasion (29 May 2006)
Guernsey continues to attract hot money (29 May 2006)
Money laundering enforcement ratchets upward (29 May 2006)
Africa cannot catch up until the west keeps to its deal (29 May 2006)
No room at the inn for inquiry's 'bed tax' proposal (29 May 2006)
Nigeria Economic and Financial Crime Commission to monitor oil revenues (28 May 2006)
Taxing Consumption in Jamaica (28 May 2006)
Tax Evasion and Self-Employment in a High-Tax Country: Evidence from Sweden (28 May 2006)
The Barclays Ruling and Jersey (28 May 2006)
BBC RADIO JERSEY: partisan as ever (28 May 2006)
Executive Financial Incentives and Payout Policy: Firm Responses to the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut (28 May 2006)
'Corporate corruption is not over' (27 May 2006)
The Failed Bush Economy (27 May 2006)
Investors’ off-shoring business to Sri Lanka to get bigger tax breaks (27 May 2006)
Guernsey Deputies raise tax hike concerns (27 May 2006)
Former head of Brazil's Banco Santos arrested on suspicion of committing fraud (27 May 2006)
Robot targets eBay tax dodgers (27 May 2006)
Judge to rule on settlement in KPMG Tax suit (27 May 2006)
Jersey Democratic Alliance (JDA) is relaunching itself as a political pressure group (26 May 2006)
Enron bosses convicted, but still off the hook for fleecing state (26 May 2006)
Plaintiff Says Incentives Were Offered in KPMG Tax Case (26 May 2006)
Competing for Criminal Money (26 May 2006)
Tax Havens: Renegade States in the International Tax Regime (26 May 2006)
Globalization and the transformation of the tax state (26 May 2006)
Transfer Pricing in the Steel Wars (26 May 2006)
Foreign Banks in the Pacific: Some History and Policy Issues (26 May 2006)
A chronology of Enron Corp (25 May 2006)
Enron bosses found guilty (25 May 2006)
Enron founder convicted on all 6 counts (25 May 2006)
Former Enron bosses found guilty on fraud, conspiracy and other charges (25 May 2006)
Three banks in $6.6B Enron settlement (25 May 2006)
Tax Policy Reforms in Nigeria (45 page PDf File) (25 May 2006)
SOME INTERNATIONAL ISSUES IN COMMODITY TAXATION (25 May 2006)
Tax Avoidance rewards could compromise auditor independence (25 May 2006)
UK Government vague on tax avoidance definition (25 May 2006)
Not-for-profit groups launch IFRS campaign (25 May 2006)
UK Stamp duty rakes in £1bn a month (25 May 2006)
Intangibles may spoil tax haven of Florida (25 May 2006)
A Tide Coming in ‘faster than a galloping horse’: Tax Haven Islands and Rapid Complex Constant Change (24 May 2006)
Indictment of US law firm fuels debate over white-collar crime (24 May 2006)
Don’t bank on banking secrecy to protect you from the taxman (24 May 2006)
Chelsea Footbaler Ballack fined for dodging airport tax (24 May 2006)
Shadow of corruption lurks behind investors as they queue for $10bn Chinese float (24 May 2006)
US Bans 4 Kenyans Linked to Corruption Scandal (24 May 2006)
MULTINATIONALS PLAN MOVE TO LOWER TAX REGIMES (24 May 2006)
Virgin Blue was 'not audited' over tax (24 May 2006)
Virgin Blue sues Australian newspaper for allegations of tax evasion (24 May 2006)
UK Solicitor admits money laundering (23 May 2006)
Tranfser Pricing: China's Trade Surplus May Be an Illusion (23 May 2006)
UK tells African leaders: make corruption history or lose confidence of western donors (23 May 2006)
Virgin Blue was 'not audited' over tax (23 May 2006)
Special Economic Zones: havens or growth vehicles? (23 May 2006)
Cyprus attracts fortunes on 0% inheritance tax (23 May 2006)
Multinational trend towards low tax regimes speeds up, as corporates gauge cost of compliance (23 May 2006)
Jersey squirms at extradition laws (22 May 2006)
India to review the double taxation avoidance treaty with Mauritius (22 May 2006)
UK calls on African leaders to end corruption (22 May 2006)
UK urges clarity on oil, gas, mines tax in poorer lands (22 May 2006)
Progress on Global Taxes? (22 May 2006)
Innovative Sources of Finance after the Paris Conference (22 May 2006)
EU, India lead in corporate tax cuts (22 May 2006)
KPMG’s Corporate Tax Rate Survey 2006 (22 May 2006)
Ireland Revenue to probe rogue landlords (22 May 2006)
Teen 'cigars' just a tax dodge (22 May 2006)
90% of Russian banks not resisting money laundering effectively (22 May 2006)
Monaco Facts and Stats (22 May 2006)
The taxing question of avoidance (21 May 2006)
Nestle and Dairy Crest claimed £126m of taxpayers' money for sending surplus butter and milk powder to poor countries (21 May 2006)
Africa must fight corruption, says African Development Bank (21 May 2006)
Taking People for a Ride (21 May 2006)
Taking People For A Ride: 9/11 Financing: A true story from an Auditor's diary (21 May 2006)
Taking People for a Ride: PRE 9 /11 WARNING FROM THE CENTRAL BANK OF SAUDI ARABIA (21 May 2006)
Germany braces for sharp VAT hike (20 May 2006)
Virgin Blue's A$70 million GST tax avoidance scheme (designed by Ernst & Young) crashes to earth (20 May 2006)
US Judge Kaplan Has KPMG, Prosecutors, and Thompson Memo Under a Microscope (20 May 2006)
US Lawyers accused of $11m kickbacks in class actions (20 May 2006)
It's Good to Be King (and it Ain't Bad to be Vice President Either!) (20 May 2006)
UK Taxman targets offshore savers (19 May 2006)
US prosecutors charge high-profile law firm with conspiring to pay $11 million in kickbacks (19 May 2006)
African Development Bank in dispute over accounting rule (19 May 2006)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and New York State Banking Department Assess Civil Money Penalties Against Liberty Bank of New York (18 May 2006)
France changing its view of clean Russian money (18 May 2006)
US widens Deutsche Tax shelter inquiry (18 May 2006)
Amount of personal debt in Guernsey has risen by 150% in a year (18 May 2006)
African bank and Deloitte clash over accounts (18 May 2006)
India to tax foreign firms without India base (18 May 2006)
$70 Billion tax cuts for the US rich (18 May 2006)
Norway's richest man becomes a Cyprus citizen (18 May 2006)
Tax is not theft, it's investment in the future (18 May 2006)
Ex-Wimbledon champ must pay tax on overseas earnings (18 May 2006)
Agassi defeated in UK tax battle (18 May 2006)
Britain Bets on Internet Casino Games (18 May 2006)
Transcript of interview with Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian Finance Minister (18 May 2006)
UK Accountant gets five years for cheating Revenue (17 May 2006)
Call for UK tax on second homes (17 May 2006)
North Cyprus struggles with massive tax evasion (17 May 2006)
Court ruling fails to deter Sibir as battle rumbles on (17 May 2006)
OFFSHORE FINANCIAL CENTERS: PARASITES OR SYMBIONTS? (17 May 2006)
Prosecutors Drop Money Laundering Probe of Commerzbank CEO (17 May 2006)
Third World cash exodus 'points to laundering' (16 May 2006)
Hyundai chairman indicted for his alleged role in a bribery and embezzlement scandal (16 May 2006)
A Superior Hybrid Cash-Flow Tax on Corporations (16 May 2006)
South Korea Cannot Apply New Tax Treaty Laws To Lone Star (16 May 2006)
EU Member States Agree Anti-Money Laundering Measures (16 May 2006)
Corruption still dogs Bulgaria on eve of ruling on EU membership (16 May 2006)
Growth isn’t working: the uneven distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth (16 May 2006)
What are the Fiscal Options for Guernsey After Introducing the Zero-Ten Corporate Tax Regime? (15 May 2006)
Jersey Tax Shambles (15 May 2006)
Thorny tax issue: dealing with ‘havens' (15 May 2006)
Greece: Tax evasion a national issue (15 May 2006)
Charities facing tax probe into millions (15 May 2006)
OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has approved a new Manual on Tax Information Exchange (15 May 2006)
Transfer Pricing: the OECD invites comment on a series of draft Issues notes (15 May 2006)
South Korea Tax Office Widens Probe of Korea Exchange Bank (15 May 2006)
Ex-Yukos Executive Detained in Italy (15 May 2006)
IKEA: Flat Pack Accounting (14 May 2006)
IKEA: The miracle of Älmhult (14 May 2006)
Criminal gangs push UK VAT fraud losses up to £7bn (14 May 2006)
Mapeley paid no tax last year (14 May 2006)
Ex-Tyco boss to pay $21 mln in tax case (14 May 2006)
Australia: Rich get richer from big tax cut (13 May 2006)
US Congress passes more tax cuts for the rich (13 May 2006)
Russia: Reforming the Reformers (13 May 2006)
Thousands may lose life savings in pyramid stamp collection scam (13 May 2006)
Italy in a league of its own when it comes to football corruption (13 May 2006)
Tax Shelters and Corporate Debt Policy (13 May 2006)
How KPMG and other consultants add to NHS problems (13 May 2006)
Malta heeds EU warning on tax breaks (13 May 2006)
Seeking shelter away from the searchlight (13 May 2006)
European court backs UK Revenue approach to VAT fraud (12 May 2006)
Britain gains powers to combat VAT fraud (12 May 2006)
EU Commission welcomes phasing out of preferential tax regimes for offshore trading companies in Malta (12 May 2006)
US has voted to end corporate tax breaks for some of its biggest firms including Boeing and Microsoft (12 May 2006)
Madeira set to lose lowest VAT rate in EU (12 May 2006)
Corruption in Italian Football (12 May 2006)
Ryanair complains to EC over Air France 'state aid' (12 May 2006)
Forbes' Tax Misery & Reform Index (12 May 2006)
Carousel VAT fraud may send UK Budget sums spinning (11 May 2006)
UK export figures boosted 10% by VAT carousel fraud; Ireland part of multi-billion white-collar criminal network (11 May 2006)
VAT Fraud could account for 10% of UK's exports (11 May 2006)
Australia CRACKDOWN on tax schemes and tax fraud will reap the Government $2.3 billion (11 May 2006)
Australia Tax office aids top end of town: auditor (11 May 2006)
IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (11 May 2006)
Head in the Sand: ISLE OF MAN TREASURY DISMISSES ZERO TAX FEARS (11 May 2006)
ConocoPhillips awaits Venezuelan tax hit (11 May 2006)
KPMG Judge Questions Legality of Tactics (11 May 2006)
Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture? (11 May 2006)
Legislation on controlled foreign companies (11 May 2006)
INDIVIDUALS worth $30million or more will be the subject of an Australian Taxation Office crackdown (11 May 2006)
Bolivia 'to compensate Petrobras' (11 May 2006)
UK Taxman closes in on offshore property owners (10 May 2006)
EU Tax Compliance and the “black hole” Jersey taxes (10 May 2006)
Irish Pull Money Out Of Isle Of Man As Tax Man Tightens The Screws (10 May 2006)
Poor nations ride high on commodity boom but aid agencies worry about the bust (10 May 2006)
Cost of corporate tax avoidance: Families are being taxed until the pips squeak (10 May 2006)
ECJ's Abbey Ruling Could Save Fund Managers Millions In VAT (9 May 2006)
US Attorneys Spar Over KPMG Payment of Legal Fees (9 May 2006)
Revealed: the £5bn-a-year UK tax fraud (9 May 2006)
Bogus deals keep UK Customs in a spin:Smart criminals stay ahead of investigators (9 May 2006)
India: Software cos get relief on transfer pricing scrutiny (9 May 2006)
Japan: Regulator set to issue a business suspension order to ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers (9 May 2006)
Guernsey Deal to share tax info with Aussies (8 May 2006)
UK Revenue wins again in offshore battle (8 May 2006)
Former US Lobbyist Neil Volz Pleads Guilty To Corruption And Fraud Conspiracy (8 May 2006)
Corrupt Businesses Have No Shame: Prosecutors Should Be Curbed, Say U.S. Business Organizations (8 May 2006)
Caymans burnish image amid hedge fund growth (8 May 2006)
Russian Tycoon Berezovsky questioned in Brazil in money-laundering case (8 May 2006)
Venezuela doubles tax for oil firms (8 May 2006)
Corruption and good governance (8 May 2006)
The Tax System in India: Could Reform Spur Growth? (8 May 2006)
KPMG chief called to testify (8 May 2006)
Mills faces Law Society inquiry over Dubai allegations (8 May 2006)
Offshore account holders told to own up or pay price (7 May 2006)
Jersey 0 /10 Tax Proposals and EU Compliance (7 May 2006)
It’s true – Jersey agreed to comply with the EU Code of Conduct (7 May 2006)
Race to the Bottom: Irish continue to pull cash out of Isle of Man (7 May 2006)
How KPMG planned to conquer the world through tax avoidance (7 May 2006)
UK Taxman wins access to the private details of offshore clients of stockbrokers (7 May 2006)
Top executive of TNK-BP accused of paying bribe to an official of the Ukrainian government (7 May 2006)
EU targets internet tax avoidance (6 May 2006)
Cadbury buoyed by ECJ tax ruling (6 May 2006)
Jersey’s tax proposals are ‘less competitive’, says Guernsey (6 May 2006)
UK Tax authorities win Barclays offshore accounts battle (6 May 2006)
Vanishing Boundaries in Online Gambling Business (6 May 2006)
Income Tax Evasion On The Rise in Turkey (5 May 2006)
150 firms take on the UK taxman over VAT 'carousel fraud' (5 May 2006)
Tax on oil profits should be global: EU (5 May 2006)
Bolivia To Audit Financial Records Of Foreign Energy Companies (5 May 2006)
Lingerie and sex toys made tax-deductible for prostitutes in Australia (5 May 2006)
News from Cukooland: UK Revenue court case ‘will not affect Guernsey’ (5 May 2006)
Plan to tackle low tax countries set to split EU (5 May 2006)
NEITI: Account for $250m missing oil fund, Obasanjo tells audit firm (5 May 2006)
Pre-paid credit cards, a money launderers dream are to be commonly available (4 May 2006)
Charities 'launder dirty money' (4 May 2006)
Taxes, Tax Cheats And Hiding Money By PayPal (4 May 2006)
US IRS wants tax documentation from Textron (4 May 2006)
UK government sends tremor through Channel Islands trust industry (4 May 2006)
Guernsey needs a joined-up approach to the zero-10 proposals (4 May 2006)
Barclays' offshore clients face £1.5bn bill (4 May 2006)
UK Taxman closes in on secret savings (4 May 2006)
UK Holiday homes tax probe (4 May 2006)
Taxman double-faults Borg and his parents (4 May 2006)
Niger Delta unrest dampens Shell (4 May 2006)
Profits before People: Shell coins in £1.5 million an hour (4 May 2006)
Businessman Pleads Guilty To Paying Bribes To U.S. Congressman (3 May 2006)
UK Taxman targets £1.5bn in largest disclosure order (3 May 2006)
UK Revenue wins battle on offshore accounts (3 May 2006)
Barclays loses legal battle on offshore accounts (3 May 2006)
Other UK banks will be hit by offshore clampdown (3 May 2006)

Read the UK Special Commissioners Verdict

Tax Havens and Secrecy: Permira Fights U.K. Unions, Raises Europe's Biggest Buyout Fund (3 May 2006)
South Korean lawmakers pass bill to impose tax on gains by foreign funds via havens (3 May 2006)
US IRS seeks Textron's tax documents (3 May 2006)
Taxing Lone Star Still Uncertain (3 May 2006)
Brussels OKs limited use of UK tax powers (3 May 2006)
Partial victory for Cadbury Schweppes in UK tax challenge (3 May 2006)

Read the ECJ Judgement

Head in the Sand: Irish tax policy for firms 'not abusing' EU law (3 May 2006)
US Judge Lets Charges Stand in KPMG Tax Shelter Case (2 May 2006)
Money laundering thrives in Dubai (2 May 2006)
South Africa: Transfer pricing: billions at stake (2 May 2006)
ECJ: 'CFC rules don't break EU law' (2 May 2006)
Reverse Socialism: Rich Residents Much Better Off in Jersey (1 May 2006)
US-Guernsey Tax Information Exchange Agreement Comes Into Force (1 May 2006)

APRIL 2006

JERSEY ATTAC - APRIL 2006 NEWSLETTER (30 Apr 2006)
South Korean tax authorities investigate Carrefour (30 Apr 2006)
New Zealand Loophole could cost millions (30 Apr 2006)
Tax Evasion Rampant Worldwide (30 Apr 2006)
Turkey scraps tax plan on offshore borrowing (30 Apr 2006)
US: Some Concerns Remain About the Overall Confidence That Can Be Placed in Internal Revenue Service Tax Gap Projections (30 Apr 2006)
The super-rich flock to London (30 Apr 2006)
Abba star hit with £6.5m tax bill (29 Apr 2006)
Abba frontman charged with tax evasion (29 Apr 2006)
Managing Globalization: Tax tightrope getting tangled (29 Apr 2006)
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2005 (28 Apr 2006)
Africa's New Kind of Money Laundering (28 Apr 2006)
How insurance companies are aiding tax evasion by over-charging in America and shipping the money to offshore firms (28 Apr 2006)
KPMG Settles Tax Shelter Lawsuit, Though 55 Opt Out (28 Apr 2006)
Warrant issued for Hyundai arrest (20 Apr 2006)
Hyundai head faces arrest over slush fund (28 Apr 2006)
Portsmouth owner has Bahamas cash (28 Apr 2006)
Tax millions hang in balance after ECJ decision (28 Apr 2006)
Scepticism greets launch of ethical investment initiative (28 Apr 2006)
Blind eye to drug cash trips up bank (27 Apr 2006)
BankAtlantic pays $10M fine: US Federal law enforcement agents rebuke BankAtlantic for failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws (27 Apr 2006)
Prosecutors seek Hyundai arrest (27 Apr 2006)
KPMG Reports Some Progress on Tax Shelters (27 Apr 2006)
Tax too high? Then set your own budget, says French finance boss (27 Apr 2006)
Bush orders investigation into gas price manipulation (27 Apr 2006)
Cooperation Key To Stopping Money Laundering, U.S. Official Says (27 Apr 2006)
South Korea: Foreign Firms Cited for Tax Evasion (26 Apr 2006)
Managing Globalization: Old tax breaks fade in new world (26 Apr 2006)
Don’t follow Jersey’ on competition law' (26 Apr 2006)
Ireland: Top builders’ scheme a misuse of tax reliefs (26 Apr 2006)
THE AMOUNTS AND THE EFFECTS OF MONEY LAUNDERING: A Report for the Ministry of Finance in Netherlands (25 Apr 2006)
U.S. Shell-Company Probes Hindered by States' Rules, GAO Says (25 Apr 2006)
REPORT FINDS ANONYMOUS SHELL U.S. COMPANIES POSE RISK (25 Apr 2006)
Shell companies and easy formation of corporations poses risks (25 Apr 2006)

Read the 77 page GAO Report

Screw the Taxman: The Weird Ideas of Tax Cheaters (25 Apr 2006)
Richard Murphy to lock horns with flat tax proponents (25 Apr 2006)
Pinsents threatens to sue Baker Tilly after UK Revenue probe (25 Apr 2006)
US IRS Wins First 'Son of Boss' Case (25 Apr 2006)
Fears over fraud as UK VAT receipts slump (25 Apr 2006)
UK Treasury Committee criticises Chancellor for trust tax proposals (25 Apr 2006)
Corporate tax carrot 'will lure multinationals', claims a report (25 Apr 2006)
Tax competition leads to market failures and loss of public revenue (24 Apr 2006)
US details fraud case on KPMG tax shelters ( 24 Apr 2006)
Hyundai chief faces prosecutors (24 Apr 2006)
Hyundai Motor Chairman Grilled in Corruption Scandal (24 Apr 2006)
Lawyers, dentists, accountants, and restaurant owners have been caught laundering money in Iceland (24 Apr 2006)
Transfer Pricing: MNCs in India tax department's sights (24 Apr 2006)
No escape for UK offshore trading fraudsters (24 Apr 2006)
‘21 banks aided Abacha’s money laundering’ (24 Apr 2006)
Foreign-Invested Firms Under Tax Probe in South Korea (24 Apr 2006)
Tax evasion remains Tanzania Revenue Authority’s daunting task (24 Apr 2006)
EU gas supply route is dominated by mysterious business interests who have made huge profits while keeping their identities mostly secret (24 Apr 2006)
Turkmenistan appears to keep country’s entire gas revenues offshore and out of the state budget, via accounts at Germany’s Deutsche Bank (24 Apr 2006)

Read Global Witness Report: It's a Gas. Funny Business in the Turkmen-Ukraine Gas Trade

US Justice Department is investigating RosUkrEnergo, the secretive gas trader (24 Apr 2006)
U.S. Probes Russian Gas Supplier RosUkrEnergo, a company with opaque ownership (24 Apr 2006)
Legal challenge hits Australia tax fraud probe (24 Apr 2006)
Why the aid budget goes west (24 Apr 2006)
Privatisation of Governments: IMF gains new mandate as world economic watchdog (24 Apr 2006)
‘States now worse’ verdict from Guernsey survey (23 Apr 2006)
Dentist gets £3m a year from the UK NHS and channells payments to an offshore firm (23 Apr 2006)
UK Revenue probes offshore traders (23 Apr 2006)
Rich get richer in the city with no middle (23 Apr 2006)
Do we need an IMF? Yes, but not this one (23 Apr 2006)
UK Tax avoidance disclosure rules widened further (23 Apr 2006)
Ex-CEO of World Health accused of fraud: Shareholder lawsuit claims he manipulated books on taxes, number of shares (22 Apr 2006)
Try an inshore tax haven (22 Apr 2006)
Tax blow for UK offshore trading (22 Apr 2006)
Steel boss Mittal is UK's richest (22 Apr 2006)
NEITI Final Audit Reports (22 Apr 2006)
U.S. Judge Backs I.R.S. Ruling Invalidating Tax Shelter, Possibly Aiding U.S. Criminal Case (22 Apr 2006)
Venezuela Accuses Eni of Refusing to Pay $68 Million in Back Taxes (21 Apr 2006)
Australia Taxman targets foreign card scam (21 Apr 2006)
Tax Shelters: Judge's Order to Keep KPMG Papers Private (21 Apr 2006)
Guernsey Ministers have rounded on Jersey Chief Minister Frank Walker (21 Apr 2006)
Nigeria settles Paris Club debt (21 Apr 2006)
OFF-SHORE tax havens and companies that use complex laws to illegally reduce their tax will be targeted by the Australian Tax Office (20 Apr 2006)
Channel Islands plan for dictatorshio to preserve global tax dodging (20 Apr 2006)
Ireland: £245m lost in cross-border fuel revenue (19 Apr 2006)
Transfer pricing: Symantec owes $1bn in back taxes says US IRS (19 Apr 2006)
Channel Islands plan for dictatorship (18 Apr 2006)
Former Federal Prosecutor Indicted In Tax Avoidance (18 Apr 2006)
UK HMRC to take on hotels and gourmet restaurants (18 Apr 2006)
Lone Star alters tack in deflecting Korea tax probes (17 Apr 2006)
Lone Star Alters Stance on Tax (17 Apr 2006)
Britian's status as a haven for the ultra-rich (17 Apr 2006)
European Commission has not been contacted about Jersey 0/10 Tax (16 Apr 2006)
Does Jersey suffer from poverty? (16 Apr 2006)
JERSEY GST EXEMPTION TO FINANCIAL SERVICES RISKS A FURTHER BREACH OF EU CODE OF TAX CONDUCT (16 Apr 2006)
Corruption, greed, dishonesty create suffering (16 Apr 2006)
Taxes, Damn Taxes and Statistics (15 Apr 2006)
Flat Tax Folly (15 Apr 2006)
UK uses more than three times its share of global resources. Britain 'one of least self-sufficient developed countries' (15 Apr 2006)
Shadow economy is UK’s secret growth industry (15 Apr 2006)
Derby County chairman quits as police investigate (14 Apr 2006)
Court opens hearing on Yukos subsidiary tax evasion charges (14 Apr 2006)
Money laundering, gun-running, sex slavery. Is tiny Cyprus the world's next tax haven? (14 Apr 2006)
Hyundai-Kia Diverted Taxpayers' Money (14 Apr 2006)
US Feds and States Look For New Ways To Tax The Internet (14 Apr 2006)
US IRS IRS goes after champion of tax evaders (14 Apr 2006)
US Tax Gap was $345 billion in Tax Year 2001 (14 Apr 2006)
US FEDERAL TAX BURDENS AT LOWEST LEVELS IN DECADES (14 Apr 2006)
Antigua and the WTO (14 Apr 2006)
Price of Tax Avoidance: Average UK student debt tops £12,000 (13 Apr 2006)
Corruption Threat To Peace And Democracy (13 Apr 2006)
More crooks go ‘phishing’ around tax time (13 Apr 2006)
US IRS Can Ask PayPal for Customer Data (13 Apr 2006)
Unfair attitude of UK taxman slammed by advocate general (13 Apr 2006)
Venezuelan oil firm cuts US ties (13 Apr 2006)
£1m had disappeared from the accounts of Blue Swan Insurance (Jersey) Ltd (13 Apr 2006)
NEITI: NGO tasks oil companies on Niger Delta dev (13 Apr 2006)
Russia: Of Fuel Cells and Oligarchs (12 Apr 2006)
NEITI: Audit shows lost Nigeria oil taxes (12 Apr 2006)
Offshore ITs Fueled by Tax Benefits (12 Apr 2006)
US IRS asks PayPal for help finding taxpayers hiding income offshore (12 Apr 2006)
Jersey won't legislate to end discrimination (12 Ap 2006)
Ernst & Young sued over failed tax shelters (12 Apr 2006)
The World Bank weeds out corruption: Will it touch the roots? (11 Apr 2006)
Slovenia Reserved about Common EU Corporate Tax Base (11 Apr 2006)
People who are resident or domiciled in offshore tax havens must never again be put forward for peerages (11 Apr 2006)
Apple seeks tax haven in Nevada (11 Apr 2006)
Ernst & Young sued over tax shelters (11 Apr 2006)
KPMG Corporate Tax Rates Suvey 2006 (10 Apr 2006)
USING the contingency fund to deal with the island’s tax ‘black hole’ could be a risky strategy, says Guernsey Association of Trusts (10 Apr 2006)
Tax Exit barriers raised for large UK companies (10 Apr 2006)
Corruption: Watchdog seeks lost Africa wealth from West (10 Apr 2006)
Corruption-linked Capital Flight Sinks Africa (10 Apr 2006)
Corruption: Rich nations block recovery of monies looted from Africa (10 Apr 2006)
South Korea prosecutors seek arrest warrants over KEB sale to Lone Star (10 Apr 2006)
Cross-Border Acquisitions and Corporate Taxes: Efficiency and Tax Revenues (10 Apr 2006)
BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION AND PROFIT TAX EVASION (10 Apr 2006)
I willfully aided and abetted the evasion of taxes, Says former KPMG partner (9 Apr 2006)
US DoJ Clamps Down On Offshore Tax Avoidance Scheme (9 Apr 2006)
US Utilities avoid taxes, but public pays (9 Apr 2006)
UK reports on World Bank and IMF: More work to do (9 Apr 2006)
Forbes entices Africa with his flat tax but is silent on multinational corporations atax avoidance and corruption (9 Apr 2006)
Germany said to plan corporate tax cuts (9 Apr 2006)
European finance ministers' talks about corporate tax in the EU clouded Germany and Austria rivalry to attract investors (9 Apr 2006)
Yukos executive arrested on money laundering suspicions (9 Apr 2006)
Corruption: Northern Laundromats for Southern Fat Cats (9 Apr 2006)
"THE IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERMEDIARIES IN HANDLING THE PROCEEDS OF CORRUPTION" The Abacha case study (9 Apr 2006)
How Citibank helped Abacha and other looters (9 Apr 2006)
How low will they go to woo tax exiles? (6 Apr 2006)
Tax Dodging: Who is the Extremist? (8 Apr 2006)
The Most Powerful Trader on Wall Street You've Never Heard Of (8 Apr 2006)
EU call for blacklist of corrupt governments (8 Apr 2006)
Marbella, where corruption and bad taste thrive (8 Apr 2006)
German accuses Austria of ‘fiscal dumping’ (8 Apr 2006)
The World Bank weeds out corruption: Will it touch the roots? (8 Apr 2006)
A Culture of Corruption by Bill Moyers (8 Apr 2006)
Chilean Court Upholds Pinochet Indictment on Tax Evasion (8 Apr 2006)
Chile court dismissed two charges against General Augusto Pinochet relating to secret offshore bank accounts (8 Apr 2006)
Apple seeks tax haven in Nevada (7 Apr 2006)
Yukos VP charged with embezzlement, money laundering (7 Apr 2006)
Hungary's Tax Authority' announces a crackdown on tax dodges (7 Apr 2006)
US Court Bars Two from Selling Alleged Offshore Tax-Fraud Scheme (7 Apr 2006)
Transfer pricing: Japan's Wacoal pays about 520 million yen in back taxes (7 Apr 2006)
Kenya Bank denies money laundering claims (7 Apr 2007)
Trusts shield NZ MPs' assets (7 Apr 2006)
Ukraine raises the price of cigarettes to tackle the problem of transfer pricing in the industry (7 Apr 2006)
BP 'unaware' of any US criminal inquiry over spill (7 Apr 2006)
Businesses warn of fall-out after corporate tax case (7 Apr 2006)
EU finding could cut tax bill for subsidiaries (7 Apr 2006)
UK Treasury faces £7bn tax rebate bill (7 Apr 2006)
‘Guernsey will soon go bust’ claim denied (7 Apr 2006)
Forbes still pushing flat tax (7 Apr 2006)
Accountancy firms silent on their dodgy deals but say EU competition drives down tax rates (6 Apr 2006)
NGO Targets Hyndai-Kia, Shinsegae for overlooking unlawful transactions (6 Apr 2006)
ROK extends probing scope on Hyundai Motor's illegal actions in bribing influential politicians and government officials (6 Apr 2006)
EU: Company Taxation: Towards a common consolidated corporate tax base, the European Commission presents a progress report and outlines the next steps (6 Apr 2006)
Tax haven or aircraft carrier (6 Apr 2006)
MG Rover faces tax questions (6 Apr 2006)
So Tax Crime Pays: Offshore billions could return to UK tax free (6 Apr 2006)
US Judge Won't Grant Separate KPMG Trials For The Largest Criminal Tax Fraud Case In History (6 Apr 2006)
UK Tax advisers could be jailed for refusing to answer questions about serious fraud cases (6 Apr 2006)
European tax 'decision' could be worth billions to companies (6 Apr 2006)
Australia Reaps Iraqi Harvest (6 Apr 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Aztec Software gets Rs49.3mn tax demand in India (6 Apr 2006)
Money Laundering Probe Targets Hyundai (6 Apr 2006)
CharterHouse Bank denies involvement in money laundering or tax evasion (6 Apr 2006)
Richest Americans got biggest tax cuts (6 Apr 2006)
Bush tax cuts making rich richer (5 Apr 2006)
Big Gain for US Rich Seen in Tax Cuts for Investments (5 Apr 2006)
US Non-Paying Tax Filers Now Number More Than 43 Million; Percentage of Nation That Pays Income Tax Continues to Shrink (5 Apr 2006)
Switzerland and EU Savings Tax Directive: Initial indications on EU system of tax retention (5 Apr 2006)
Director of Credit Suisse's under investigation for money laundering and tax evasion has left a Brazilian jail (5 Apr 2006)
Top Republican resigns as US bribery scandal claims biggest scalp (5 Apr 2006)
EU Savings Tax Directive: Savvy Investors Outflank Europe's Tax Snoopers (5 Apr 2006)
From the Archives: Give us your dirty laundry (5 Apr 2006)
US Data Expert Prevails in Lawsuit Against IRS Secrecy (5 Apr 2006)
Exxon Mobil is biggest US firm thanks to price rises (5 Apr 2006)
A Seriously Funny Future (5 Apr 2006)
New UK trust fund tax hits 'millions' (5 Apr 2006)
Poachers and Gamekeepers: Former head of UK HMRC’s Avoidance Intelligence Unit joins PricewaterhouseCoopers (5 Apr 2006)
UK Theatres win VAT reclaim court case (5 Apr 2006)
British bank loses VAT battle with Italian government (5 Apr 2006)
Embattled Thai PM resigns over tax avoidance claims (5 Apr 2006)
Billionaire Thaksin Resigns as Thailand's Prime Minister over Tax Avoidance (4 Apr 2006)
Thai PM stands down amidst tax avoidance allegations (4 Apr 2006)
Cost of Tax Avoidance: THOUSANDS of UK pensioners are stuck in a cycle of debt (4 Apr 2006)
South Carolina settles tax shelter case with KPMG partner (4 Apr 2006)
British government accused of inflating aid figures (4 Apr 2006)
Greasing the Skids of Corruption: The Role of Jersey (4 Apr 2006)
Money Laundering and Tax Evasion: The Biggest Loophole in the Free-Market System (4 Apr 2006)
Criminal Money Laundering and Illegal Flight Capital (4 Apr 2006)
And they advise others: UK financial watchdog slaps £750,000 fine on Deloitte & Touche for serious compliance failings (4 Apr 2006)
UK Shadow chancellor hints at business tax cuts and flirts with flat taxes (4 Apr 2006)
Cash shell companies suspended on Aim for failing to do deals (4 Apr 2006)
AIM cracks down on shell firms (4 Apr 2006)
Aim freezes 38 firms in shell company crackdown (3 Apr 2006)
Jersey turning into a dictatorship (3 Apr 2006)
Jersey legislator faces fraud charges (3 Apr 2006)
Tax wedges on earnings vary sharply in OECD countries (3 Apr 2006)
Prosecutors suspect Yukos vice-pres of money laundering (3 Apr 2006)
Money Laundering: Nigerian Banks Under Surveillance (3 Apr 2006)
Malawi: Minister warns accountants on money laundering (3 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: We raised millions in offshore trusts, say Tories (3 Apr 2006)
ALMOST 200 Australian sports stars facing criminal charges for cheating on tax (3 Apr 2006)
UK MPs criticise Britain’s involvement in African corruption (3 Apr 2006)
CALPIRG supports Honest Corporate Tax Reporting Act, which will require corporations to disclose differences between the profits they report to shareholders and profits they report to the state for tax purposes (3 Apr 2006)
Lord Black's company faces US tax probe (2 Apr 2006)
Becoming the World's formost laundry: The Isle of Man wooing online gaming operators by relaxing its licensing regulations (2 Apr 2006)
Tax dodging and leeching fits perfectly with the anti-statist sensibilities of Zizek's 'liberal communists' (2 Apr 2006)
Barcode battle against £2bn tax scam (2 Apr 2006)
Taxes must rise if ageing UK nation is to receive realistic state pension (2 Apr 2006)
What about Tax Avoidance?: British FBI will target organisers of £40bn trade in drugs, fraud and smuggled prostitutes (2 Apr 2006)
Arctic Systems tax battle goes to the UK House of Lords (1 Apr 2006)
Accountancy body wants to dilute UK money laundering laws (1 Apr 2006)
Barclay Brothers question Sark jurisdiction over their castle (1 Apr 2006)
The tax-free lifestyle of Britain's new mega-wealthy is impoverishing us all (1 Apr 2006)
First instalment of withholding tax levied on the Swiss-held savings of European Union residents may not match expectations (1 Apr 2006)
Yukos to face fraud allegations (1 Apr 2006)
Investment Fraud Trial Commences In Monaco (1 Apr 2006)
Rudy plea reveals Abramoff’s worldwide reach:Tiny Marianas Islands paid $7.17 million for lobbyist’s aid (1 Apr 2006)
Corruption: Another Abramoff-related lobbyist pleads guilty (1 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Florida court goes easy on Abramoff as congressional investigation goes on (1 Apr 2006)

March 2006

Ethics and the Accounting and Auditing Professions in the 21st Century (31 Mar 2006)
Speech at the European Commission Representation in Finland: Representation in FinlandThe contribution of taxation and customs policies to the Lisbon Strategy (31 Mar 2006)
What If There Were an International IRS? (31 Mar 2006)
Ex-KPMG Tax Partner Helped Wealthy People Dodge Millions in Taxes (31 Mar 2006)
Lawyer Accuses U.S. of Pressuring KPMG in Tax Case (31 Mar 2006)
Deeply mired in anti-social activities but Four US firms top global big list (31 Mar 2006)

The World's 2000 Largest Public Companies

Price of Tax Avoidance: UK Student debt doubles as top-up fees hit poorest (31 Mar 2006)
South Korea to end double taxation treaty with tax havens (31 Mar 2006)
South Korea prosecutors raid Lone Star in tax evasion case (31 Mar 2006)
NEITI: Senate worried over secrecy in extractive industry (30 Mar 2006)
NEW TAX STRATEGY COULD DESTROY JERSEY (30 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tory backer made £2 million loan from a Jersey trust week before poll (30 Mar 2006)
Apple chairman to settle $300m tax bill (30 Mar 2006)
UK Tax inspectors could be granted same powers as police to snoop (30 Mar 2006)
Impact of the Federal Court’s decision on the German betting market (30 Mar 2006)
The operation of elusive, unaccountable mechanisms of financial power in the shadows of the global economy poses a challenge of reform to governments and multinational institutions (30 Mar 2006)
The Other Side of the Coin: The UK and Corruption in Africa (82 page PDF File) (29 Mar 2006)
Britain urged to fight corruption in Africa (29 Mar 2006)
Ex-AIB executives pay up as Ireland tax defaulters named (29 Mar 2006)
Four former executives in AIB, the State's largest bank pay Ireland Revenue €323,313 as a result of their dealings with an offshore investment scheme that breached tax law (29 Mar 2006)
Last days of Yukos as bankruptcy court says investors have no role (29 Mar 2006)
Good Governance in Africa: British MPs tell their government to get tough on corruption (29 Mar 2006)
CORRUPTION: INTERIM REPORT THE HARLIBURTON/TSKJ/NLNG INVESTIGATION (29 Mar 2006)
The CornerHouse Evidence on the Role of Western Organisations in Corruption in Africa (29 Mar 2006)
Defendant Makes a Deal in KPMG Tax Case (29 Mar 2006)
Partner at accounting giant KPMG pleaded guilty to helping fabricate $11.2 billion in fake tax shelters (29 Mar 2006)
In Africa, corruption doesn't go without notice anymore (29 Mar 2006)
Corruption: Nigeria`s interests worry U.S. (29 Mar 2006)
Jersey implicated in Trinidad & Tobago case (29 Mar 2006)
Instruments of Detachment, Instruments of Control:The Rise of the Modern Tax Haven in the International Economy by William Brittain-Catlin (28 Mar 2006)
The Citizens' Initiative and Referendum: Direct Democracy in 5 Countries of Europe by Michael Wallace-Macpherson, Paul Ruppen, Roland Erne, Ralph Kampwirth, Arjen Nijeboer and Arjen Nijeboer (28 Mar 2006)
Exchange of Tax Information by David Spencer (28 Mar 2006)
UK MPs to criticise government inaction on fraud in Africa (28 Mar 2006)
Around 50 cash shell companies will be suspended from UK listing (28 Mar 2006)
Globalisation and the Irish Economy: Ireland extremely vulnerable to a global slowdown in either the high-tech or financial services sectors (28 Mar 2006)

Globalisation and the Irish Economy - 82 Page Report

Hyundai chief faces fraud probe (28 Mar 2006)
Teaching De-corruption (28 Mar 2006)
Yukos Bankruptcy Case to Kick Off (28 Mar 2006)
Corruption hotline rings company alarm bells in Switzerland (28 Mar 2006)
Former KPMG tax partner pleads guilty (28 Mar 2006)
Ex-KPMG partner pleads guilty in US tax case (28 Mar 2006)
"I knew that the losses should not have been claimed on the tax return," "I signed opinion letters knowing them to be false", says KPMG partner (28 Mar 2006)
Anatomy of a 'bribe' (28 Mar 2006)
Rising inequalities: 42% of UK adults now with no pension and 70% with no meaningful savings (28 Mar 2006)
Venezuela hits BP with tax bill (27 Mar 2006)
Sovenia Farmers Want Product Promotion, Oppose Flat Tax (27 Mar 2006)
Book Review: Flat Tax - Toward a British Model by Allister Heath (27 Mar 2006)
A communist takes on the tax cutters (27 Mar 2006)
Flat Tax: Soak the Poor, says ACCA (27 Mar 2006)
Rumania Businesspersons advocate higher flat tax rate (27 Mar 2006)
Regulation, What Regulation in Lawless Jersey (27 Mar 2006)
2006-2007 Tax Avoidance Measures in Quebec (27 Mar 2006)
"The object of the conspiracy was to help wealthy taxpayers significantly and illegally reduce their tax liability", says ex KPMG partner (27 Mar 2006)
Tax Competition - Any Basis for this in Political Economic Theory? (27 Mar 2006)
KPMG Reaches Revised Pact on Tax Shelters (27 Mar 2006)
Massive fraud trial opens in Monaco against a US entrepreneur accused of cheating investors out of millions of euros (27 Mar 2006)
"I knew that the losses should not have been claimed on the tax forms", says exa KPMG partner (27 Mar 2006)
"I signed opinion letters knowing them to be false, in order to mislead the IRS,'' says ex KPMG partner (27 Mar 2006)
Ex-KPMG Partner Pleads Guilty in Tax-Shelter Case (27 Mar 2006)
Revenue clamps down on tax evasion by expatriates in Nigeria (27 Mar 2006)
Tax evasion detected in penny stocks deals (27 Mar 2006)
UK corporate association moans about tax avoidance clampdown but silent on oprganised tax dodging (27 Mar 2006)
'Khodorkovsky was doing an enormous amount of asset stripping and transfer pricing (26 Mar 2006)
UK City bonus brigade face £100m tax clawback (26 Mar 2006)
Shell faces sharp criticism in the Philippines after a large oil spill (26 Mar 2006)
Four former Ericsson directors charged with "serious obstruction of tax controls" (25 Mar 2006)
Tesco finance chief flounders over new tax-cutting scheme (25 Mar 2006)
Proponents should call ‘fair tax’ what it really is a consumption tax ( 25 Mar 2006)
Corruption remains a barrier to achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (25 Mar 2006)
It’s time to change Bermuda taxation system: Out with Customs Duty, in with Corporate Profits Tax (25 Mar 2006)
THE UK Conservative Party is concealing a £2 million loan behind an offshore trust (25 Mar 2006)
The European Commission’s business taxation agenda (24 Mar 2006)
Brazil quiz at Credit Suisse unit (24 Mar 2006)
Jersey expands facilities for doges by the introduction of protected cell companies (24 Mar 2006)
B&B and other UK loopholes targeted in new avoidance battleplan (23 Mar 2006)
Tennis star Agassi takes tax battle to House of Lords (23 Mar 2006)
EU Commission requests phasing out of distortive tax regimes in Malta (23 Mar 2006)
UK Tax avoidance disclosure rules widened further (23 Mar 2006)
KPMG discloses revised pact on tax shelters (23 Mar 2006)
The operation of elusive, unaccountable mechanisms of financial power in the shadows of the global economy poses a challenge of reform to governments and multinational institutions (22 Mar 2006)
Rich Britain (22 Mar 2006)
Rich South Koreans dodged taxes on 57 percent of their income, with some of them omitting up to 75 percent of earnings (22 Mar 2006)
Kenyan crime puts off investment (21 Mar 2006)
Ghana War On Money Laundering (21 Mar 2006)
Feds seek client list in alleged tax-fraud setup (21 Mar 2006)
UK Revenue widens its scrutiny of offshore funds (21 Mar 2006)
Facts and figures of island life in Jersey (21 Mar 2006)

Jersey In Figures, 2005 (88 page PDF File)

Liechtenstein, 'Uncooperative' Tax Haven, to Keep Bank Secrecy (20 Mar 2006)
Corporation Tax Feature: On not paying tax (20 Mar 2006)
UK tax revenues will reach £490bn this year (20 Mar 2006)
Right Winger Push on and Call for Flat Tax for Developing Countries (20 Mar 2006)
Britain urged to investigate UK link to Kenya corruption scandal (20 Mar 2006)
UK tax burden 'highest in history' (19 Mar 2006)
The rich get richer in poor old Britain (19 Mar 2006)
Why the smart money is offshore (18 Mar 2006)
Corruption: BAE ordered to name payment agents (17 Mar 2006)
Good News for Lone Star: Belgium no Tax Haven (17 Mar 2006)
Thanks to a tax loophole, corporate crime does pay (17 Mar 2006)
Tax lawyer's Deutsche Bank role causes stir (17 Mar 2006)
Guernsey's Future Tax Strategy (16 Mar 2006)
Guernsey could lose up to £80m if corporation tax is scrapped (16 Mar 2006)

The economic case for a 0%/10% corporate tax rate structure in Guernsey (1 Apr 2006)

Offshore: Unfinished business (16 Mar 2006)
Taxing Issues – Responsible Business and Tax (16 Mar 2006)
Shoplifting and Bushonomics (16 Mar 2006)
Creditor Banks Sell Yukos Loan to Rosneft (16 Mar 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Different wiring in Ireland’s electronics (16 Mar 2006)
Cayman Islands is the leading domicile for offshore hedge funds (16 Mar 2006)
Offshore: Island politics (16 Mar 2006)
Barbados money laundering practices scrutinised (16 Mar 2006)
Senator Bayh's bill enlists US firms in closing capital gains tax gap (16 Mar 20060
Venezuela Increases Taxes for Foreign Oil Companies (16 Mar 2006)
What’s New with the Accounting Shell Game? More Shells (15 Mar 2006)
US Utilities keeping customer taxes (15 Mar 2006)
US Justice Department Moving to Smash Tax Scams (15 Mar 2006)
US IRS suggests publicizing corporate tax returns (15 Mar 2006)
US Senate Panel Probes Contractors Over Taxes (15 Mar 2006)

SENATOR CARL LEVIN (D-MICH) ON GSA CONTRACTORS WHO CHEAT ON THEIR TAXES
AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT (15 Mar 2006)
SENATOR NORM COLEMAN On GSA Contractors Who Cheat on Their Taxes And What Should Be Done About It (15 Mar 2006)
Thousands of GSA Contractors Abuse the Federal Tax System, Statement of Gregory D. Kutz, Steven J. Sebastian and John J. Ryan (15 Mar 2006)
WRITTEN TESTIMONY OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE MARK EVERSON ON FEDERAL CONTRACTORS WHO CHEAT ON THEIR TAXES (15 Mar 2006)
STATEMENT OF KATHLEEN M. TURCO ACTING DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR (15 Mar 2006)

Man hedge fund group likely to face a formal complaint of negligence following the collapse of a Cayman Islands fund (15 Mar 2006)
Number 10 just has no idea how deep the revulsion goes (15 Mar 2006)
Tax gaffe bedevils US lawmaker (15 Mar 2006)
Pension misery for millions: Adair Turner’s report on the pensions crisis fails to address the question of redistribution (14 Mar 2006)
Lone Star faces KEB deal probe (14 Mar 2006)
Former German Chancellor Schröder sings the praises of hedge funds (14 Mar 2006)
South Carolina settles with 2 men accused of pitching KPMG's bogus tax shelters (14 Mar 2006)
Profits of War: British firms make £1.1bn profit from Iraq (14 Mar 2006)
KPMG expnads in Caymans (14 Mar 2006)
UK companies step up demand for drop in business taxes (13 Mar 2006)
Snouts in the Troughs: British economy needs business tax cuts, CBI tells chancellor (13 Mar 2006)
Not so much back to basics on gongs, as back to bungs (13 Mar 2006)
Taiwan cracks largest money laundering gang (13 Mar 2006)
Guernsey's intention to remain a tax haven are reckless (13 Mar 2006)
Top rate UK taxpayers forced to pay 57% tax (13 Mar 2006)
THE SCAM OF OFFSHORE LOOTING: $11.5 trillion siphoned offshore (12 Mar 2006)
Transfer pricing woes of Nortel (12 Mar 2006)
The rich we have always with us (12 Mar 2006)
Deutsche hit by US tax shelter liabilities (12 Mar 2006)
Jowell accused in fresh loans row (12 Mar 2006)
Corporate barons complain that UK tax changes have 'cost companies £8bn' (12 Mar 2006)
Compass sued over UN fraud allegations (11 Mar 2006)
Compass to defend £72m suit over UN contracts (11 Mar 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Numerous instances of under declaration in South Africa (11 Mar 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Globalization and the South: Some Critical Issues (11 Mar 2006)
The changing structure of international trade linked to global pridctuin systems: What are the policy implications? (11 Mar 2006)
The Coming Anarchy in Oceania? A Critique of the ‘Africanisation of South Pacific Thesis (11 Mar 2006)
Transfer Pricing: Production, privatisation and preservation in Papua New Guinea Forestry (11 Mar 2006)
TAX AVOIDANCE USING COMPLEX PARTNERSHIPS AND FILM TAX RELIEF (10 Mar 2006)
South Korea To Ban Offshore Investors From Tax Treaty Benefits (10 Mar 2006)
Tax Shelters: Exotic or Plain Illegal (10 Mar 2006)
Drug trafficking and money laundering a hindrance to Zambia's economic development (10 Mar 2006)
Many Jurisdictions Remain Vulnerable To Money Laundering, Says US Report (10 Mar 2006)
US Judge Blasts Credibility of Ex-KPMG Exec (10 Mar 2006)
KPMG Exec Free on $25M Bail with electronic monitoring until his trial (10 Mar 2006)
Italian prosecutors aska judge to let David Mills, the husband of UK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, be put on trial on corruption charges (10 Mar 2006)
Prosecutors call for Mills and Berlusconi to face trial (10 Mar 2006)
Italy bid for PM corruption trial (10 Mar 2006)
JERSEY ATTAC - MARCH 2006 NEWSLETTER (9 Mar 2006)
Microsoft to hide Irish Tax Haven data of subsidiaries that have saved it billions of dollars in US taxes (9 Mar 2006)
Hungary's two main rival parties ruled out the introduction of a flat tax (9 Mar 2006)
UK Minister's husband and Berloscuni: Above Suspicion? (9 Mar 2006)
Tax shelter probe forces Deutsche Bank profit cut (9 Mar 2006)
Sark bids a reluctant farewell to more than 400 years of feudalism (9 Mar 2006)
3.4 million UK children living in poverty (9 Mar 2006)
Hundred Group and Varney enter tax reporting row (9 Mar 2006)
More agree with turning in tax cheats (9 Mar 2006)
Delay will not remove sting of deferred tax (8 Mar 2006)
Isreal Police crack money-laundering scheme in Mercantile Discount Bank (8 Mar 2006)
Funding welfare states for Africa (8 Mar 2006)
Virgin Islands Donors Invest In Key US Senators (8 Mar 2006)
Dubai Authorises its First hedge Fund (8 Mar 2006)
Offshore Financial Centers - The Assessment Program - A Progress Report from IMF (8 Mar 2006)
Bank of New Zealand and Westpac secure The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand (7 Mar 2006)
US Economist argues the case for tax avoidance (7 Mar 2006)
Former U.S. ambassador to Ireland used improper tax shelters sold by the KPMG (7 Mar 2006)
NBA owner used tax shelter: Ex-U.S. ambassador also on list released in suit against KPMG (7 Mar 2006)
US says KPMG defendants' papers ignore allegations (7 Mar 2006)
Kroger Restates Due to Tax Accounting (7 Mar 2006)
Britain: Culture secretary embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi bribery scandal (7 Mar 2006)
DaimlerChrysler uncovers evidence of "improper payments" to officials on three continents (7 Mar 2006)
US Federal prosecutors sue Nevada tax preparers for fraud (7 Mar 2006)
Panama is vulnerable to money laundering (6 Mar 2006)
Nowhere to hide! - Tax evasion is being crushed around the globe (6 Mar 2006)
Cayman Islands appoints Kroll liquidator of PAAM (6 Mar 2006)
NEW JOWELL HUSBAND CLAIMS ON TAX, SHARES IRAN, MAFIA (6 Mar 2006)
The grinding of the Mills (6 Mar 2006)
HALIFAX VERDICT: A STEP TOWARDS A GENERAL ANTI-TAX AVOIDANCE PRINCIPLE? (6 Mar 2006)
US Public opinion hardens against tax cheaters (6 Mar 2006)
FIGHTING CORRUPTION: Moral values must prevail (6 Mar 2006)
Cheating on taxe sbecomes bigger taboo (6 Mar 2006)
Forget Monaco: Isle of Man cuts tax to tempt super-rich (6 Mar 2006)
Insider tells tales of Wall Street dishonesty and corruption (5 Mar 2006)
Criminal business of taxes (5 Mar 2006)
How the lawyer's pub deal brewed a storm of trouble for UK Minister (5 Mar 2006)
Green savaged over Arcadia's ethical standards (5 Mar 2006)
Is this the end of globalisation? (5 Mar 2006)
A taxing time for targets (4 Mar 2006)
Illegal fishing worth $9bn a year, says report (4 Mar 2006)
'Tax Avoidance Needs Comprehensive Approach' (4 Mar 2006)
Tax avoidance expertise brought well-connected lawyer into contact with mafia go-between and corrupt shipping magnate (4 Mar 2006)
What is a tax haven? (4 Feb 2006)
Last Jersey outdoor tomato grower is pulling out of the business (3 Mar 2006)
Online stores may be forced from Jersey tax haven (3 Mar 2006)
Jersey students face higher education fees (3 Mar 2006)
Guernsey Sex discrimination law in force (3 Mar 2006)
Call to stop Guernsey mail order tax break (3 Mar 2006)
More big US companies admit tax mistakes (3 Mar 2006)
A taxing moral paradox (3 Mar 2006)
Bahamas remains a serious concern about money laundering (3 Mar 2006)
New Money-Laundering Report Gives Russia Good Marks (3 Mar 2006)
Spain freezes 4 bank accounts of Benazir Bhutto (3 Mar 2006)
Narcotics trade and money laundering in Guyana (3 Mar 2006)
Drug cartels 'laundering cash in China' (3 Mar 2006)
Irish Casinos Likely to be Used for Money Laundering (3 Mar 2006)
Transfer pricing: Most PNG logging illegal (3 Mar 2006)
Letter from David Mills to his accountantappears to admit murky links to Berlusconi but Mills now claims the scenario was invented for tax purposes (2 Mar 2006)
No tax please, we're rich! (2 Mar 2006)
Super-rich paid in wine and hay (2 Mar 2006)
Mills is merely a means to an end. It's Berlusconi they want (2 Mar 2006)
Housing Associations face hefty tax bills for VAT avoidance (2 Mar 2006)
Jersey to tighten unfair VAT loophole (2 Mar 2006)
KPMG case to US state court? (2 Mar 2006)
Jersey VAT loophole (2 Mar 2006)
Foreign courier services evading taxes on the import of goods via the main US military base in Afghanistan (1 Mar 2006)
Jersey Cut-price VAT loophole closed on CDs (1 Mar 2006)
Empty Words on Money Laundering and Narcotics, from the UN, Georgia and Equatorial Guinea (1 Mar 2006)
Daimler-Chrysler Tax Incentives Before the Supreme Court (1 Mar 2006)
US High court to hear Toledo breaks case (1 Mar 2006)
UK Home Office officials interfered in attempts to arrest and extradite the husband of minister (1 Mar 2006)
GST is unlikely to be a good tax for Hong Kong (1 Mar 2006)
United States: Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Implications for Corporate Tax Departments (1 Mar 2006)
SEC Lesson to Individual White-Collar Defendants: Just Hold OUt and We will Settle for Peanuts (1 Mar 2006)
Loophole 'let BAE sell arms to Uganda' (1 Mar 2006)

February 2006

OECD to work on clarifying VAT/GST application in cross-border trade (28 Feb 2006)
Cost of living in the tax havens of Andorra and Monaco (28 Feb 2006)
Restoring The Public Trust (28 Feb 2006)
Indonesia exploring the possibility of terminating double taxation agreement with the Seychelles (28 Feb 2006)
For the sake of the world's poor, we must keep the wealthy at home (28 Feb 2006)
Simple questions to be answered at heart of complex financial deals by UK minister's husband (28 Feb 2006)
UK Public urged to report tax cheats (28 Feb 2006)
Shop your neighbour, UK tax-dodging ad urges (28 Feb 2006)
Ireland Revenue to get powers to probe people’s bank accounts (27 Feb 2006)
San Francisco puts a bounty on property tax evasion, and some do-gooders could get $500,000 (27 Feb 2007)
Fair exchange could help poor countries grow and put a damper on bubble money (27 Feb 2006)
New York Deadline for tax fraud amnesty running out (27 Feb 2006)
Laundering the proceeds of a bank raid (26 Feb 2006)
The UK minister and the £350,000 gift (26 Feb 2006)
SEC Expands Citigroup Argentina Probe (25 Feb 2006)
Guernsey tax experts are failing to look at future tax strategy options (25 Feb 2006)
Nigerian court orders Shell and its partners to pay $1.5bn to the Ijaw people of the Delta region (25 Feb 2006)
Corruption and the destruction of Africa (25 Feb 2006)
International Academic Forum on Flat Tax Rate (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax: Not as simple as they’d have you think by Richard Murphy (24 Feb 2006)
The Flat Tax: Experience and Evidence by Michael Keen, International Monetary Fund, FAD (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Principles and Issues by Alvin Rabushka, Hoover Institution, Stanford, USA (24 Feb 2006)
Can A Flat Tax Rate Contribute to Growth and Welfare? by Jože Mencinger, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (24 Feb 2006)
Some issues in Flat Tax Debate (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax debate:The Economic Role of the State in the 21st Century by Vito Tanzi (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax: The case of Estonia by Ivo Vanasaun, Ministry of Finance,Tax Policy Department, Estonia (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax: Direct Taxation in Southeastern Europe by Jean Tesche, Sarajevo Graduate School of Business (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax: The case of Denmark by Thomas Larsen, Ministry of Taxation, Denmark (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax: The case of Slovakia by Zdenko Krajčír, Ministry of Finance, Financial Policy Institute, Slovak Republic (24 Feb 2006)
The Distributional Effects of a Flat Tax Reform in Germany - A Microsimulation Analysis by Andreas Peichl (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax: The case of Romania by Finel Videanu, National Commission for Prognosis, Romania (24 Feb 2006)
Case of Holland "A Flat Tax Rate in the Netherlands - An Option for the Next Coalition Agreement?" by Kees Heineken Ministry of Finance, Tax Policy Department, the Netherlands (24 Feb 2006)
Logic and Objectives of Flat Tax Reforms Planned in Slovenia by Andrej Šircelj, Ministry of Finance, State Secretary, Slovenia (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Reform in Slovenia: Implementation Issues by Sašo Polanec,University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Reform in Slovenia by Mitja Čok, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (24 Feb 2006)
Welfare end Efficiency Effects in Alternate Flat Tax Reforms in Slovenia by Damjan Kozamernik, Bank of Slovenia (24 Feb 2006)
Proportional (Flat) Personal Income Tax Rate and Competitiveness in Slovenia: Towards Understanding the Policy Issues and Policy Implications by Gonzalo Caprirolo, Ministry of Finance, Slovenia (24 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Discussion by Igor Masten, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (24 Feb 2006)
The $225m (£129m) class action settlement for Sidley Austin and KPMG’s role in the US tax shelter case looks set to be shelved (24 Feb 2006)
UK accountants make money from dilution of money laundering rules (24 Feb 2006)
UK Treasury allows yet another tax haven deal (24 Feb 2006)
Marks & Spencer considers using new tax-efficient trusts (24 Feb 2006)
Probe into Canada trusts suggests wider circle of insiders (24 Feb 2006)
Ten Britons charged with money laundering (24 Feb 2006)
The corporate scams that aid terrorist money launderers (23 Feb 2006)
ECJ tide flows in UK governments' favour again (23 Feb 2006)
Can the robbers launder the money? (23 Feb 2006)
Could Smurfs help spend the £40m haul? (23 Feb 2006)
The private banking industry is under more pressure than ever to deliver returns for its clients (23 Feb 2006)
OF SNOWBOARDERS AND CORPORATIONS (22 Feb 2006)
Property in money laundering saga (22 Feb 2006)
Hugo Chavez moving money offshore (22 Feb 2006)
UK minister has nothing to do with Italian bribe allegations, insists her husband (22 Feb 2006)
European court backs UK's fight against VAT 'avoidance' (22 Feb 2006)
UK Treasury wins ruling to close VAT loophole (22 Feb 2006)
Israel: A 'tax haven' for new immigrants and returning residents (22 Feb 2006)
No Jersey income tax cap planned (22 Feb 2006)
The Isle of Man to abolish company tax and cap personal income tax at £100,000 from April 5 (22 Feb 2006)
Race to the bottom: Isle of man introduces zero rate corporate tax and a £100,000 per year tax cap for the super rich (22 Feb 2006)
European Court of Justice rules that VAT avoidance schemes set up by Halifax, Bupa and the University of Huddersfield were illegal (21 Feb 2006)

Good News, Prime Minister, We're Still Ranked Above Bangladesh (21 Feb 2006)
UK Treasury blocks tax relief abuse (21 Feb 2006)
Tories scent blood over the UK minister's husband and his links to Berlusconi (21 Feb 2006)
Isle of Man cuts tax rate to zero (21 Feb 2006)
UK Government wins Halifax VAT case (21 Feb 2006)
Former Nigerian governor's Cape home seized in money laundering charges (21 Feb 2006)
Best democracy that money can buy: Tribes, private operators pour tons of cash into influencing US lawmakers (21 Feb 2006)
Taxpayers wear the cost of share buybacks (21 Feb 2006)
No democracy in the Isle of Man (20 Feb 2006)
Enron Accounting of Isle of Man politics (20 Feb 2006)
Tax evasion keeps the developing world poor (20 Feb 2006)
UK Taxman shuts Marks & Spencer loophole (20 Feb 2006)
Fairer redistribution: FT call finds an echo (20 Feb 2006)
Isle of Man permitted bearer shares - a major device for money laundering (20 Feb 2006)
UK government will not ask companies to publish their tax computation (20 Feb 2006)
Transfer pricing: Kinsale Financial made $96m with just two employees in Ireland (20 Feb 2006)
UK Minister's husband left isolated over tax evasion case (20 Feb 2006)
Rich have no nationality (20 Feb 2006)
Money laundering in Netherlands amounts to €18.5 billion annually: Amounts to 5% of Dutch GDP (20 Feb 2006)
Flat tax brigade spreads its myths (19 Feb 2006)
£1bn VAT ruling blow for UK companies (19 Feb 2006)
UK Minister's husband faces corruption indictment by Italian prosecutors (18 Feb 2006)
Bank of America close to money laundering settlement (18 Feb 2006)
Corruption costs African countries $148bn a year (18 Feb 2006)
Corruption costs Africa twenty-five percent of its collective national income (18 Feb 2006)
Former Kenya minister charged in corruption inquiry (18 Feb 2006)
You can't count on a chartered accountant (17 Feb 2006)
Why don’t the accounts of the FTSE 50 add up? by Richard Murphy (17 Feb 2006)
Nigeria oil 'total war' warning (17 Feb 2006)
Do They Add Up?, A report by Tax Justice Network (16 Feb 2006)
UK tax avoidance maze skews investor tax data (16 Feb 2006)
Despite rampant tax dodging, UK government will not require companies to list subsidiaries, affiliates, shell companies and trusts, together with the their turnover, profit and tax paid by each (16 Feb 2006)
Linking the award of public contracts to tax obligations (16 Feb 2006)
Transfer pricing is the biggest method for laundering money but the UK government opposes disclosures (16 Feb 2006)
Benn challenges west to fund African NHS (16 Feb 2006)
Australia Tax scheme promoters face big fines (16 Feb 2006)
Germany and Japan want to dilute new draft global anti-corruption guidelines (16 Feb 2006)
Latin America Needs To Cut Poverty To Boost Growth, says World Bank (16 Feb 2006)

Read the 238 page Report: Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles

US Tax shelter prosecutors focus on Deutsche Bank (16 Feb 2006)
UK parliamentary question on national insurance contributions forgone (16 Feb 2006)
UK parliamentary question on VAT Fraud (16 Feb 2006)
UK government shields banks that laundered Abacha and Pinochet funds (16 Feb 2006)
Misrepresentation of oil and gas reserves by Shell (16 Feb 2006)
UK government has no data about successful legal challenges to tax avoidance schemes (16 Feb 2006)
UK government will not ask banks to donate 1 per cent. of their UK profits to local community projects (16 Feb 2006)
Qinetiq privatisation and tax havens (15 Feb 2006)
Swiss cantons offer corporate taxes as low as 6.6% (15 Feb 2006)
Deutsche Bank role in US tax shelters probed (15 Feb 2006)
HVB to pay $29.6m in tax fraud settlement (15 Feb 2006)
German Bank Settles US IRS Case (15 Feb 2006)
US IRS offers grace for bogus tax shelters (15 Feb 2006)
Facts and figures of US "tax gap" (14 Feb 2006)
US annual "tax gap" reaches $345 billion (14 Feb 2006)
Details of the US "tax gap" of $345 billion (14 Feb 2006)
Guernsey Minister rejects tax dodge claim (14 Feb 2006)
US makes offer of leniency on tax shelters (14 Feb 2006)
GERMAN BANK HVB ADMITS CRIMINAL WRONGDOING AND AGREES TO PAY $29 MILLION AS PART OF DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENT IN RELATION TO LARGEST-EVER TAX SHELTER FRAUD (14 Feb 2006)

Statement of Admitted Facts

Geldof moves to tackle corruption (14 Feb 2006)
WTO upholds US export tax ruling (14 Feb 2006)
Tax arrears can be used to block contracts, Euro court says (14 Feb 2006)
UK dilutes accountants money laundering duties (14 Feb 2006)
Qinetiq: Greed of the highest order and the worst privatisation since rail (14 Feb 2006)
LIST of CROWN DEPENDENCIES AND OVERSEAS TERRITORIES (13 Feb 2006)
ITALY: PRODI, WE'LL LAUNCH FEROCIOUS FIGHT AGAINST TAX EVASION (13 Feb 2006)
UK: Long awaited Trusts legislation published in draft (13 Feb 2006)
The Schmidt Offshore Report (13 Feb 2006)
Tories plan to send £2.4bn tax on profits to Holyrood (13 Feb 2006)
Ireland: More than half of income tax paid by 10% of taxpayers (13 Feb 2006)
The money game: Everybody does it (13 Feb 2006)
Tax scheme pays off for Kaplinsky (13 Feb 2006)
UK to announce the creation of a "modern Bletchley Park" taskforce to fight terrorist funding (12 Feb 2006)
Europe ruling on tax avoidance could jeopardise Ireland's tax avoidance penalty plans (12 Feb 2006)
US Treasury gets tough on Irish tax haul (12 Feb 2006)
Investigators probing a Swiss bank linked to alleged frauds at WPP Italy (12 Feb 2006)
KPMG Tax Shelter Deal May Be Revised (11 Feb 2006)
KPMG Still Negotiating Tax Shelter Deal with Investors (11 Feb 2006)
Compass bosses face 'corruption' questions (10 Feb 2006)
An insurance claim with strings attached (10 Feb 2006)
Tax Justice for Africa - a new development struggle (10 Feb 2006)
Tax Justice for Africa: A new development struggle (10 Feb 2006)
Africa can be a better place - Activists at World Social Forum (10 Feb 2006)
US Government Expands Tax-shelter Inquiries (9 Feb 2006)
Tanzania: Why informal sector players avoid paying tax (9 Feb 2006)
Australia: Millions spent to get big fish in tax crackdown (9 Feb 2006)
Australia pursuing high-flying film stars, lawyers and executives involved in offshore tax haven schemes (9 Feb 2006)
Mistakes on UK tax returns costing Exchequer £2.8bn, say MPs (8 Feb 2006)
Newspapers scandal: Follow the Hollinger money (8 Feb 2006)
Anti-tax group challenges US Sarbanes-Oxley law (8 Feb 2006)
UK Revenue wins Pirelli ACT case (8 Feb 2006)
UK House of Lords rules on Pirelli tax case (8 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Rate Clash of Opinion (7 Feb 2006)
Economists Say Flat Tax Bad for Welfare (7 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Would Exert Severe Pressure on Food Industry (7 Feb 2006)
Flat Tax Disastrous for Tourism Sector, Trade Union Official Warns (7 Feb 2006)
International Forum Discusses Flat Tax Pros and Cons (7 Feb 2006)
Calling the Ethics Cops (7 Feb 2006)
The New Ethics Enforcers (7 Feb 2006)
Defining the Role of Ethics Monitor (7 Feb 2006)
Wisconsin Men Pay Fines For Running Offshore Betting Operation (7 Feb 2006)
Ghana will establish offshore banking services (6 Feb 2006)
Singapore tax policy attracts Swiss account money (6 Feb 2006)
Taxing choices for overseas property investors (6 Feb 2006)
US Government Expands Tax-shelter Inquiries (6 Feb 2006)
Battle for a masterpiece that led to a change in tax laws (5 Feb 2006)
Death of tourism in Jersey: Numbers fall at island's airport (5 Feb 2006)
Measuring Poverty in Jersey (5 Feb 2006)
How the pension system works in Jersey (5 Feb 2006)
Jersey Income Distribution Study 2002 (5 Feb 2006)
Social Protection in Jersey: a Comparative Study (48 page PDF File) (5 Feb 2006)
Social Security provision in Jersey (5 Feb 2006)
Enron's political helpmates (5 Feb 2006)
California Losing Billions From Illegal Tax Shelters (5 Feb 2006)
BHP faces charges in oil-for-food inquiry (4 Feb 2006)
Livedoor 'used Swiss accounts to cook books' (4 Feb 2006)
One in three UK homeowners will now be subject to a 40% inheritance tax (4 Feb 2006)
New General Anti-Avoidance Rule For South Africa? (4 Feb 2006)
'One in three' Britons now liable for IHT (3 Feb 2006)
Justice Department Moving to Smash Tax Scams (3 Feb 2006)
Black & Decker again faces $140M tax case (3 Feb 2006)
Black & Decker win over US IRS returned for trial (3 Feb 2006)
China bankers in US money laundering scam charge (2 Feb 2006)
Khodorkovsky faces prison sewing exam (2 Feb 2006)
40m in sub-Saharan Africa need emergency food aid (2 Feb 2006)
UK Treasury bans tax dodge by NHS trusts to stave off crisis (2 Feb 2006)
Kenyan 'graft' minister resigns (2 Feb 2006)
Canada and General Anti-Avoidance Rule (1 Feb 2006)
OECD Developing Dangerous Policies: POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTMENT (1 Feb 2006)
New Zealand Tax penalty amounts doubled last year to $222m (1 Feb 2006)
Internal accountability creates “institutional discomfort” (1 Feb 2006)
Aid for trade: “distraction” from a bad deal (1 Feb 2006)
Both arsonist and fire-fighter: the World Bank on school fees (1 Feb 2006)
Using human rights tribunal to force Bank compliance: Uruguayan paper mill (1 Feb 2006)
The IMF and capital flight: Redesigning the international financial architecture (1 Feb 2006)
Former Wal-Mart executive pleads guilty of wire fraud and tax avoidance (1 Feb 2006)
Medical corruption 'global issue' (1 Feb 2006)

Theft, bribery and extortion rob millions of proper health care, says Global Corruption Report 2006

January 2006

Corporations rule not OK (31 Jan 2006)
Citigroup: a culture and history of tax evasion (31 Jan 2006)
Australia Tax boss warns of global threat to coffers (31 Jan 2006)
Exxon Mobil made record profits of $36bn (£20bn) for 2005 as oil and gas prices soared (31 Jan 2006)
Standard Life demands news of tax breaks (30 Jan 2006)
Pinochet's daughter arrested for tax evasion (30 Jan 2006)
Hi-tech UK industries face VAT overhaul first (30 Jan 2006)
The higher the flyer the lower the tax rate (30 Jan 2006)
Ireland Bill will end tax breaks for foreign executives (29 Jan 2006)
Mapeley: questions still to be answered (28 Jan 2006)
Nevada ads look to lure away California companies with no corporate income tax, no personal income tax and no inventory tax (28 Jan 2006)
Between 8 and 10 per cent of the global medicine supply chain is counterfeit, representing up to £20 billion worth of medicines (28 Jan 2006)
Belgium gets ready for 'biggest ever' tax fraud trial (28 Jan 2006)
Marks & Spencer v Halsey — the international dimension (27 Jan 2006)
Labour’s Role in Achieving the Creative Imperative: Statement of Labour Leaders to the World Economic Forum (27 Jan 2006)
Trade Unions Call Companies and Governments to Account on Jobs and Tax (27 Jan 2006)
Former Pakistan prime minister Bhutto sought on corruption charges (27 Jan 2006)
Replace UK council tax with 1% property levy (27 Jan 2006)
UK removes money laundering rule (27 Jan 2006)
UK goes into reverse on VAT fraud fight (27 Jan 2006)
HMRC and MFI settle VAT dispute (27 Jan 2006)
Tax Justice Network detailed Citigroup's 40-year history of banking scandals (27 Jan 2006)
Chevron Reports Net Income of $4.1 Billion in Fourth Quarter and $14.1 Billion for Year (26 Jan 2006)
Disgraceful Distinctions for 2006 (26 Jan 2006)
Tax Justice Network cautions Nigeria against Foreign Direct Investment (26 Jan 2006)
Australia: Tax cheats warned (26 Jan 2006)
3 at major US law firm face tax-shelter inquiry (26 Jan 2006)
The role of the Bahamas companies in Kerry Packers' tax avoidance (26 Jan 2006)
Inter-American Development Bank says worldwide, money laundering is a $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion business per year, accounting for between 2 percent and 5 percent of global GDP (26 Jan 2006)
Money laundering drives violent crime (26 Jan 2006)
Bahamas-based investment firm, was indicted for laundering $1 billion for drug dealers, tax cheats and swindlers (26 Jan 2006)
Bahamas investment firm used to launder US$1 billion (26 Jan 2006)
Churches money-laundering conduits? (26 Jan 2006)
Corporate villains named and shamed (26 Jan 2006)
Walt Disney Company, the Chevron Corporation and Citigroup have been awarded booby prizes by Swiss non-governmental organisations (26 Jan 2006)
Isle of Man and Guernsey: Cable & Wireless on the brink of settling its £40m court case over allgeations of siphoning off £80m in reinsurance premiums (25 Jan 2006)
Isle of Man: A hell hole but money laundering and tax dodging flourishes (26 Jan 2006)
“The Public Eye Awards 2006” go to Chevron, Disney and Citigroup (25 Jan 006)
More money laundering opportunities: Isle of Man as the offshore capital of e-gaming (25 Jan 2006)
How newspapers suck up to corporate elites (25 Jan 2006)
Should government be allowed to offshore? (25 Jan 2006)
Strong Tax Regime Pushes Development (25 Jan 2006)
Tax network aims to battle plunder of Africa (25 Jan 2006)
Russia's leading shipper, Sovkomflot, is suing several offshore companies and some of its former managers for $321 million in Britain's High Court over alleged transfer pricing schemes (24 Jan 2006)
JERSEY ATTAC - JANUARY 2006 NEWSLETTER (24 Jan 2006)
ECJ clamps down on shareholders' rules (24 Jan 2006)
Tax Justice Netork mentioned in the Uk House of Commons debate (24 Jan 2006)
UK Incapacity benefit cuts but what about the corporate tax dodges (24 Jan 2006)
Tax Justice Network aims to battle plunder of Africa (24 Jan 2006)
30-bln-yuan tax avoided by transnationals in China (24 Jan 2006)
Apply the smell test to your tax loophole - juries would (24 Jan 2006)
Offshore law firms expand in London (24 Jan 2006)
Denmark writes off Nigeria's debt (24 Jan 2006)
NEITI: More Transparency, Please (24 Jan 2006)
Pinochet wife held in fraud case (24 Jan 2006)
UK Customs to fight group action over Bond House (23 Jan 2006)
The state, the economy and the politics of fear (23 Jan 2006)
HSBC entices people offshore (23 Jan 2006)
THOUSANDS COULD BE FORCED TO OWN UP OFFSORE BANKING INFORMATION TO UK TAX AUTHORITIES (23 Jan 2006)
MONEY LAUNDERING & TERRORIST FINANCING TYPOLOGIES 2004-2005 - 85 page FATF Report (23 Jan 2006)
Transfer pricing is the most common method for money laundering (23 Jan 2006)
The easiest places to launder dirty money are the United States, the UK, Switzerland and Australia (22 Jan 2006)

The sale of UK tax offices to a tax haven: Mapeley deal costs UK taxpayer £350m (22 Jan 2006)
'Sarbanes Oxley refugees' are clamouring for a London float. Should we worry? (22 Jan 2006)
Corruption in Football: Agents an easy target - a bigger problem is the enemy within (22 Jan 2006)
Jamaican music is a multi-billion business, but tax avoidance high (22 Jan 2006)
Jersey Finance to get new toys: A Protected Cell Company (22 Jan 2006)
The Protected Cell Companies in a Nutshell (22 Jan 2006)
New offshore scams: A Protected Cell Company (22 Jan 2006)
Patriot Corporations (21 Jan 2006)
Sham Bermuda company is caught up in Congo oil trading scandal (21 Jan 2006)
REFORMING THE RICH (21 Jan 2006)
TRANSFER PRICING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A Question of Balance: Taxing Business in the 21st Century (21 Jan 2006)
TRANSFER PRICING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPER TY: CLOSING THREE COMMON CORPORATE INCOME TAX LOOPHOLES COULD RAISE ADDITIONAL REVENUE FOR MANY STATES (21 Jan 2006)
KPMG has record year - makes paying fines easier (21 Jan 2006)
UK Customs pays out £2m to settle booze cruise claim (20 Jan 2006)
Top ministers face inquiry into corruption allegations in Kenya (20 Jan 2006)
Brazil mayor 'hid millions in Jersey (20 Jan 2006)
US Tax Avoidance Schemer Sentenced to 5 Years (20 Jan 2006)
UK taxman strangles avoidance scheme at birth (20 Jan 2006)
Russia: Eurobankers place bets on Deripaska (20 Jan 2006)
UK taxman hunts offshore assets (20 Jan 2006)
UK Offshore clampdown to hit 15,000 (19 Jan 2006)
NCR under UK scrutiny for transfer pricing (18 Jan 2006)
ID fraudsters plunge UK tax system into chaos (18 Jan 2006)
US Supreme Court limits state suits v. banks in Wachovia case (18 Jan 2006)
Staff at UK's HMRC investigated over collapsed trial (18 Jan 2006)
Apple builds tax shelter in Guernsey (18 Jan 2006)
Mbeki defends deputy in fresh corruption claims (18 Jan 2006)
Holding governments to ransom: Hostile tax laws could drive big companies overseas (17 Jan 2006)
UK plc seeks refuge abroad from tax avoidance regime (17 Jan 2005)
Clean Money, Dirty Money Corruption and Money Laundering in the UK (17 Jan 2006)
OUR COMMON INTEREST - 2005 REPORT OF THE COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (453 page PDF file) (17 Jan 2006)
OECD POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTMENT (17 Jan 2006)
Uneven Urban Development, Water and Finance during Africa’s Global Economic Integration (17 Jan 2006)
Ex-KPMG Executives Challenge Tax Shelter Prosecutors (17 Jan 2006)
UK War on small firms 'tax dodge' (17 Jan 2006)
U.N. Orders Leave for Eight in Fraud Probe (17 Jan 2006)
Daimler 'acts over Iraq bribes' (17 Jan 2006)
Nigeria closes 'unhealthy banks' (16 Jan 2006)
The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers (16 Jan 2006)
Is tax planning leading to higher corporate risk? Richard Murphy thinks so (16 Jan 2006)
UK Tax advisers think VAT carousel fraud is tax planning (16 Jan 2006)
UK Taxman will go the House of Lords as Revenue appeals Arctic Systems decision (16 Jan 2006)
UK Revenue reveals tax fraud levels (16 Jan 2006)
Offshore banks hit by UK ruling (16 Jan 2006)
That Uncertain Something: FASB and Taxes (16 Jan 2006)
Australia probes Iraq 'kickbacks' (16 Jan 2006)
Tax haven clients turn heat up on their Australian advisers (16 Jan 2006)
Conflict diamonds are new way to launder money (16 Jan 2006)
Big UK companies 'avoid £20bn' in tax (16 Jan 2006)
Africa: MEETING OF EXPERTS ON COOPERATION WITH RESPECT TO THE DENIAL OF SAFE HAVEN TO CORRUPT OFFICIALS AND THOSE WHO CORRUPT THEM, THEIR EXTRADITION, AND THE DENIAL OF ENTRY AND RECOVERY OF THE PROCEEDS OF CORRUPTION AND THEIR RETURN TO THEIR LEGITIMATE OWNERS (16 Jan 2006)
Unwed couples face UK tax threat (15 Jan 2006)
How UK plc stays ahead of the taxman (15 Jan 2006)
Top FTSE companies avoid paying tax to tune of £20bn (15 Jan 2006)

Apple to exploit Guernsey VAT loophole (15 Jan 2006)
France’s glitterati turning to backwater Belgium (15 Jan 2006)
The Trouble with Tyco (14 Jan 2006)
World Bank shuts Chad oil account (14 Jan 2006)
U.S. Money Laundering Threat Assessment Released (14 Jan 2006)

Read the 81 page Report

Offshore link of the British Defence sell-off (13 Jan 2006)
Offshore account holders warned to declare everything to UK Revenue (13 Jan 2006)
Tax surge gives US budget surplus (13 Jan 2006)
No shame as KPMG engages in spin (13 Jan 2006)
Flat-tax for South Africa? (13 Jan 2006)
Defendants File a Flurry of Motions Challenging the KPMG Tax-Shelter Case (13 Jan 2006)
VAT 'Carousel' ruling could cost UK taxman £1bn (13 Jan 2006)
"Dirty Money" Foundation of US Growth and Empire (12 Jan 2006)
2- 5% of global GDP is laundered, says UK government (12 Jan 2006)
Six face UK money laundering charges (12 Jan 2006)
ATM cards being used for money laundering (12 Jan 2006)
UK promises new moves on carousel VAT fraud (12 Jan 2006)
Advisers sound caution over Bond House VAT case (12 Jan 2006)
ECJ delivers VAT blow to UK government (12 Jan 2006)
UK GOVERNMENT LOSES VAT CASE IN EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE (12 Jan 2006)
Europe victory over frozen UK VATs (12 Jan 2006)
UK Taxman wins offshore accounts battle (12 Jan 2006)
New tax incentive for off shore islands (12 Jan 2006)
Pay £98m or 10 more years jail, fraudster told (12 Jan 2006)
BP to make biggest profit in UK history despite hurricanes (12 Jan 2006)
Anti-poverty groups sceptical of UK tax credit reforms (12 Jan 2006)
Corruption in UK football (12 Jan 2006)
EU Commission proposes 'Home State Taxation' for smaller businesses (12 Jan 2006)
China Finds N.Korea Guilty of Money Laundering (11 Jan 2006)
Drug, terror rings find new ways to launder money (11 Jan 2006)
A Handbook on Fighting Corruption (11 Jan 2006)
Sustainable Development: Promoting Progress or Perpetuating Poverty? - Why Africa is Poor (11 Jan 2006)
New EU tax proposals for small businesses (11 Jan 2006)
EU Home State Taxation scheme would remove painful compliance costs (11 Jan 2006)
UK HM revenue & Customs has surrendered £1.2billion of "meths" duty due from British Petroleum (11 Jan 2006)
Britons face back taxes on villas in Spain (11 Jan 2006)
Enron's final chapter: Ex-officials Lay, Skilling heading to trial in corruption case that symbolizes the era of corporate scandals (11 Jan 2006)
Abramoff and the Israeli Connection: Washington sleazebag funneled money to Israel's "settler" movement (11 Jan 2006)
Scandal-ridden Bermuda based Tyco considers breaking-up (11 Jan 2006)
Panama and Tax Reforms: see Ch. 3 of An IMF Paper (11 Jan 2006)
UK promises to offer a global new deal on poverty (11 Jan 2006)
What would happen if Britain became a republic tomrrow? (11 Jan 2006)
Dutch bank pays $80 million for violating money-laundering laws (10 Jan 2006)
Nefarious Offshore business continues (10 Jan 2006)
UK Tax amnesty struggles to make a dent in £75bn black economy (10 Jan 2006)
A Review of the Empirical Literature on FDI Determinants (10 Jan 2006)
Shell sued by Dutch pension funds (10 Jan 2006)
US economist says Iraq war could cost $2 trillion (10 Jan 2006)
UK tax 'keeps top footballers out' (9 Jan 2006)
U.S. workers should offshore themselves (9 Jan 2006)
Anatomy of Singapore: A Tax Haven (8 Jan 2006)
UK urged to give Nigeria back its £900 million cash (8 Jan 2006)
BP's Browne in Russian racketeering lawsuit (8 Jan 2006)
Government for Sale: The fall of Jack Abramoff threatens to provoke America's biggest corruption crisis (8 Jan 2006)
Consequences of Tax Avoidance: Colleges cut classes for adults (8 Jan 2006)
Liberia denies $30m is 'missing' (8 Jan 2006)
Jersey implicated in Brazillian corruption scandal (7 Jan 2006)
Corruption in Brazil - Old Tricks, New Dogs (7 Jan 2006)
On fraud trail to tax havens (7 Jan 2006)
Defeated UK taxman may still have last laugh (7 Jan 2006)
Smuggling in suburbia: how two men ran cartel flooding UK with £1bn of cocaine (7 Jan 2006)
Are you ready to jump on the FairTax bandwagon? (7 Jan 2006)
Richard Murphy: A man of grit and influence (see item 42) (6 Jan 2006)
IS HARMONISATION OF TAX POLICIES BETWEEN EU COUNTRIES A GOOD IDEA? (18 page PDF File) (6 Jan 2006)
Outsoucing Tariff Evasion: A new explanation of the Entrepot Trade (19 page PDf File) (6 Jan 2006)
Panama is the land of opportunity for tax evaders and drug financiers (6 Jan 2006)
Hong Kong at the centre of the world tax avoidance industry, says UK legislator (6 Jan 2006)
Tax avoidance due to the zero capital gains tax: Some indirect evidence from Hong Kong (6 Jan 2006)
Tax Rates and Tax Evasion:Evidence from “Missing Imports” in China (6 Jan 2006)
An Updated Look at Doing Business in China via Cayman Islands (6 Jan 2006)
KPMG faces challenges to tax shelter settlement (6 Jan 2006)
Former high-powered US lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion charges (6 Jan 2006)
Spain to simplify its tax system and reduce the rates (6 Jan 2006)
China to reinforce anti-avoidance efforts (6 Jan 2006)
Foreigners bought half the corporate shares sold in Brazil (6 Jan 2006)
Refco's Collapse Reveals Decades of Quarrels With Regulators (6 Jan 2005)
UK taxman gives £827m insolvency write-offs for the benefit of banks and accountants (5 Jan 2006)
KPMG Compliance Program Didn't Meet Thompson Memo Criteria (5 Jan 2006)
How big business dominates UK government taskforces (5 Jan 2006)
Corruption and governments for sale: US Lobbyist admits kickbacks, influence peddling (4 Jan 2006)
Governments for Sale: Lobbyist case threatens US Congress (4 Jan 2006)
US Lobbyist to reveal all in Congress bribes scandal (4 Jan 2006)
US fraud lobbyist pleads guilty to consipracy and tax evasion (4 Jan 2006)
Price of corporate tax dodging; Fees mean fewer will try for UK university place (4 Jan 2006)
Virgin 'tax avoidance' tip of iceberg / Experts say (4 Jan 2006)
Virgin affiliate rapped for hiding Y4.3 bil in income (4 Jan 2006)
Virgin 'avoided tax on £21m deal' (4 Jan 2006)
Virgin affiliate accused of tax evasion (4 Jan 2006)
Politically connected U.S. telecom companies accused of kickbacks to Former Haitian President Aristide and his associates (3 Jan 2006)
30% India Inc owned by foreigners. So? (3 Jan 2006)
The taxing art of bludging (3 Jan 2006)
Nigerian banks face liquidation (3 Jan 2006)
United Biscuits loses VAT appeal (3 Jan 2006)
UK HMRC wins snacks VAT appeal (3 Jan 2006)
MORE TERRORIST ASSETS TO BE FROZEN (3 Jan 2006)
Foreign direct investment in Trinidad & Tobago (2 Jan 2006)
Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi suspected of bribery (2 Jan 2006)
India: Taxmen to monitor MNCs closely (2 Jan 2006)
Transfer Pricing: NCR makes profit of $131m from just 31 Irish employees (2 Jan 2006)
India: Branches of foreign banks are separate tax entities (2 Jan 2006)
Federal Government to audit accounts of all oil companies operating in Nigeria (2 Jan 2006)
Venezuela gains control of private oil fields (2 Jan 2006)
MONEY LAUNDERING AND FOREIGN CORRUPTION: ENFORCEMENT AND EFFECTIVENESS
OF THE PATRIOT ACT SUPPLEMENTAL STAFF REPORT ON U.S. ACCOUNTS USED BY AUGUSTO PINOCHET (2 Jan 2006)
World Bank Group Releases Data on Its Extractive Industries Portfolio (2 Jan 2006)
Nigeria troops kill 'oil thieves' (2 Jan 2006)
Nigeria: London has tolerated financial terrorism (2 Jan 2006)
Energy Forum Speakers Cite Ways Africa Can Attract Investment and Priase the NEITI initiative (2 Jan 2006)
NIGERIA: Offshore boom brings little hope oil wealth will trickle down (2 Jan 2006)
Accountancy Firms lobby UK Revenue on Abstract 40 (1 Jan 2006)
Azerbaijan; Oil and transparency initiatives a mixed blessing (1 Jan 2006)
The Sound of Silence: As in Dogs Not Barking (1 Jan 2006)