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DECEMBER 2015

HMRC: Why has Lin Homer become Dame Lin? (31 Dec 2015)
HMRC boss given Damehood despite 'abysmal' customer service (31 Dec 2015)
Review launched after UK airport shops found to not pass on VAT savings (31 Dec 2015)
Apple's €318m tax deal may affect other multinationals in EU (31 Dec 2015)
Apple agrees to pay £234m to settle Italian tax dispute (31 Dec 2015)
U.S. ties ex-Panamanian president to SAP software bribery scheme (31 Dec 2015)
Puerto Rico will default on $37m in debt on New Year's Day, governor confirms (31 Dec 2015)
Apple 'to pay €318m' to settle Italy tax fraud case (30 Dec 2015)
Julius Baer to Pay $547 Million to Resolve U.S. Tax Probe (30 Dec 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Four Banks Reach Resolutions Under Swiss Bank Program (30 Dec 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Reaches Resolution Under Swiss Bank Program (30 Dec 2015)
Osborne's crackdown on tax avoidance branded a failure (30 Dec 2015)
George Osborne's tax avoidance crackdown misses target by hundreds of millions of pounds (30 Dec 2015)
One in three UK 'dirty bomb' emergency response vehicles to be scrapped (30 Dec 2015)
FIFA official accused of fraud and money laundering (30 Dec 2015)
Ireland Issues Brief On EU Savings Taxation (30 Dec 2015)
Greek drivers surrender car plates to avoid heavy taxation (30 Dec 2015)
HMRC trialling maps to decode 'galaxy' of British tax laws (30 Dec 2015)
How the richest Americans have exploited an esoteric tax loophole & saved billions (30 Dec 2015)
Brazil's anti-corruption prosecutor: graft is 'endemic. It has spread like cancer' (30 Dec 2015)
Measures to Control the Abuse of Offshore Tax Havens (29 Dec 2015)
Take up of 'Downton' tax break much higher than expected (29 Dec 2015)
Super-rich should be obliged to pay taxes like rest of us (29 Dec 2015)
Can firms be “socially responsible” while avoiding taxes? (29 Dec 2015)
Malaysia's 1MDB Sent $850 Million to Entity Set Up to be Owned by Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund (29 Dec 2015)
Saudi Arabia stocks fall sharply on tax rises (29 Dec 2015)
UK Small business owners 'better off on the dole' if proposed tax return changes go through (28 Dec 2015)
The Internet Tax Hostage (28 Dec 2015)
Jets for David Cameron, royal family and military bosses cost UK taxpayer £87m (28 Dec 2015)
Welfare Rights: A Dutch city wants to pay everyone £660 a month (28 Dec 2015)
China Telecom shares fall after chairman held in corruption crackdown (28 Dec 2015)
Fifa: Prince Ali calls for urgent publication of Garcia report (28 Dec 2015)
Shining a light on corruption (27 Dec 2015)
Bid to stamp out corporate tax avoidance unites Westminster parties (27 Dec 2015)
UK Buy-to-let investors to challenge tax hike in court (27 Dec 2015)
Corporate tax avoidance tops list of UK public's ethical concerns (27 Dec 2015)
China: Joining global fight vs. MNCs tax evasion (27 Dec 2015)
Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money (27 Dec 2015)
Austerity, injustice and the forces of callous Conservatism (27 Dec 2015)
Money laundering probe into India's Sahara (27 Dec 2015)
US programme nets $1 billion from Swiss bank fines (27 Dec 2015)
Dutch city plans to pay all citizens a 'basic income', and Greens say it could work in the UK (27 Dec 2015)
As Oil Money Melts, Alaska Mulls First Income Tax in 35 Years (27 Dec 2015)
Five of world's biggest investment banks pay no UK corporation tax (23 Dec 2015)
Anger at City banks paying little or no corporation tax (23 Dec 2015)
Analysts say Trump's tax cuts would nearly double the debt (23 Dec 2015)
Amazon and eBay face crackdown over VAT fraud by overseas sellers (23 Dec 2015)
Rights court rejects US client's case against UBS in tax probe (23 Dec 2015)
Netflix drama as United Kingdom cash goes to tax haven (23 Dec 2015)
Corporate Welfare: Lord Bathurst a 'hypocrite' for avoiding tax while collecting almost £370,000 in farming subsidies, says green party member (23 Dec 2015)
RBS Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Multi-Million-Dollar Securities Fraud (23 Dec 2015)
Number of big company CFOs hit by HMRC penalties doubles (23 Dec 2015)
HMRC: Number of personal penalties issued to corporate accounting officers doubles in a year (23 Dec 2015)
Apple CEO Tim Cook: wilfully not understanding tax (22 Dec 2015)
Vodafone has a long way to go before it is doing country-by-country reporting (22 Dec 2015)
Seven big investment banks in UK paid just $30 million (£21 million) tax in 2014 (22 Dec 2015)
Analysis of Donald Trump Tax Plan Sees a Boon for Wealthy and Trillions in Debt (22 Dec 2015)
Avoiding US Corporate Taxes (22 Dec 2015)
Reductio ad absurdum for corporation tax avoidance (22 Dec 2015)
US says $1 billion linked to Venezuelan energy corruption scheme (22 Dec 2015)
British PM Cameron To Blow Tax Payer Cash on EU Propaganda Before UK Referendum (22 Dec 2015)
Zambia to bring in variable tax on mining royalties (22 Dec 2015)
Corporate Welfare: Film and TV producers claim over £2bn in tax reliefs (22 Dec 2015)
UK Official Statistics on Film, High-End Television, and Animation Tax Relief (22 Dec 2015)
UK Creative Industries Statistics, December 2015 (22 Dec 2015)
US Corporations Don't Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits (22 Dec 2015)
US issues country-by-country reporting requirements (22 Dec 2015)
IRS Proposes Country-by-Country Reporting Rules for 2017 (22 Dec 2015)
Hospitality and Gambling Interests Delay Closing of Billion-Dollar Tax Loophole (22 Dec 2015)
Icelandic banker sentenced to five years in prison (22 Dec 2015)
US Charges 2 With Corruption Linked to Venezuelan Oil Company (22 Dec 2015)
Nigeria bans credit card use abroad (22 Dec 2015)
Apple: rotten to its core (21 Dec 2015)
If the International Accounting Standards Board want peace and joy its about time they delivered it for everyone (21 Dec 2015)
Netflix paid no corporation tax despite 4.5m UK subscribers, report claims (21 Dec 2015)
Netflix does not pay UK corporation tax despite generating £200m of revenue (21 Dec 2015)
Netflix drama as United Kingdom cash goes to tax haven (21 Dec 2015)
The Pinstripe Mafia: A former Ernst & Young partner was sentenced to eight years in jail at the end of last week for his role in a tax fraud scheme (21 Dec 2015)
Former Ernst & Young partner faces eight years in prison for movie tax fraud (21 Dec 2015)
The Observer view on unethical corporate behaviour (21 Dec 2015)
Swiss government: Fines, bribes should no longer be tax-deductible (21 Dec 2015)
Netflix paid no corporation tax despite 4.5m UK subscribers, report claims (21 Dec 2015)
Apple chief rounds on outdated US tax code (21 Dec 2015)
Corruption: Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini banned from football for eight years by Fifa (21 Dec 2015)
Report: Four Big Law Firms Earned Millions From Suspect States (21 Dec 2015)
Revolving Doors: UKGovernment's 'buddy' scheme has now paired ministers with 83 global firms (21 Dec 2015)
Almost half of Britain's private wealth owned by top 10% of households (21 Dec 2015)
Inequality: Richest 10 per cent in UK 'own half the country's wealth' (21 Dec 2015)
Inequality: Richest one per cent 'have as much wealth as the poorest 57 per cent combined (21 Dec 2015)
Richest Britons piling up wealth three times faster than poorest (21 Dec 2015)
ONS Publication: Wealth in Great Britain Wave 4, 2012 to 2014 (21 Dec 2015)
Financial Secrecy Index – full technical database now available (18 Dec 2015)
We need a wealth tax (18 Dec 2015)
Wealth management: tax avoidance is just the tip of the iceberg (18 Dec 2015)
The UK and BEPS: a facilitator or impediment to progress? (18 Dec 2015)
Global corporate tax dodges do untold harm (87 Nov 2015)
Conservatives all talk when it comes to tackling tax avoidance (18 Sep 2015)
The corporate lie: tax transparency 'misleading' (18 Dec 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Joint Resolution with Two Banks Under Swiss Bank Program (18 Dec 2015)
Three further Swiss banks pay US fines (18 Dec 2015)
Swiss-Banking Lawsuit Against IRS Could Have Wide Impact (18 Dec 2015)
Is Osborne serious about catching tax cheats – or just the little guys? (18 Dec 2015)
Death Is Certain. Taxes, Less So (18 Dec 2015)
Supermodel Bar Refaeli investigated over tax evasion in Israel (18 Dec 2015)
Habib Bank not following US money laundering laws: Federal Reserve (18 Dec 2015)
8 Jaw-Dropping Tax Havens of the Filthy Rich (18 Dec 2015)
Fifa scandal: Large cash sums frozen by Switzerland (18 Dec 2015)
Bedroom tax: three in four affected have cut back on food, DWP research shows (18 Dec 2015)
Bullets, prostitutes and ‘mass corruption’: How a tobacco giant’s Mr Fix-It turned whistleblower (18 Dec 2015)
Proposed new pension system will make future tax raids easier (18 Dec 2015)
Tim Cook calls notion of Apple avoiding US taxes 'political crap' (18 Dec 2015)
HMRC don’t prosecute the right people – and almost no one for corporate tax fraud (17 Dec 2015)
The National Audit Office fails to ask the right questions of HMRC on the tax gap (17 Dec 2015)
Switzerland: Parliament approves the automatic exchange of tax information (17 Dec 2015)
The EU Parliament has just demanded that the Commission get off the fence on tax avoidance. But will they? (17 Dec 2015)
European Parliament spells out legal steps to fight aggressive corporate tax planning and evasion (17 Dec 2015)
UK tax fraud costs UK government £16bn a year, audit report says (17 Dec 2015)
National Audit Office (NAO) Report: Tackling tax fraud: how HMRC responds to tax evasion, the hidden economy and criminal attacks (17 Dec 2015)
HMRC should do more to tackle tax fraud, says official report (17 Dec 2015)
Callers to HMRC helplines 'wait average of 38 minutes for an answer' (17 Dec 2015)
HMRC focuses on low-value tax prosecutions (17 Dec 2015)
Which of Australia's biggest companies are not paying tax (17 Dec 2015)
ATO report shows nearly 600 big companies paid no tax in 2013-14 (17 Dec 2015)
Capitalism is running rings round democracy (17 Dec 2015)
Governments for Sale - Revealed: how Google enlisted members of US Congress it bankrolled to fight $6bn EU antitrust case (17 Dec 2015)
Tax Court criticizes CIBC for slow discovery in Enron case (17 Dec 2015)
Fact Sheet - Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act: Companies: Transparency (17 Dec 2015)
UK Legislation: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (17 Dec 2015)
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 obliges companies to take reasonable steps to identify the ultimate beneficial owners of holdings of over 25% in the company or who can exercise power over such holdings, and all intermediate bodies (17 Dec 2015)
Tax avoidance and tax planning are two separate issues! (17 Dec 2015)
Scotland announces tax on second homes (17 Dec 2015)
UK Offshore tax evasion penalties could lead to double jeopardy and conflict of interests (17 Dec 2015)
The Tax Justice Network’s December 2015 podcast (16 Dec 2015)
Starbucks, tax and cluelessness (16 Dec 2015)
When HMRC can do basic tax calculations they can go digital but right now they can’t (16 Dec 2015)
EU Parliament: Bringing transparency, coordination and convergence to corporate tax policies (16 Dec 2015)
Dow, DuPont eye big tax savings in rare merger of equals (16 Dec 2015)
Greenpeace links frackers to tax havens (16 Dec 2015)
Opera singer Montserrat Caballe sentenced for tax fraud (16 Dec 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Three Banks Reach Resolutions Under Swiss Bank Program (16 Dec 2015)
Swiss banks to pay $130 million, avoid charges on aiding U.S. tax evasion (16 Dec 2015)
US Charities Laud Permanent Tax Breaks In House Deal (16 Dec 2015)
Starbucks UK profit rises, taxes decrease (16 Dec 2015)
Corruption also poses big costs – countries lose an estimated $3.1 trillion (5.1% of the world’s GDP) because of tax evasion (16 Dec 2015)
Tackling Corruption in Fragile States (16 Dec 2015)
Vatican money-laundering investigations 'must show results' (16 Dec 2015)
Cayman: Central public register may be inevitable (16 Dec 2015)
Corporate Welfare: CBI says 'compelling case' for boosting investment tax reliefs (16 Dec 2015)
Nigeria Ex-Security Chief Dasuki Faces Money-Laundering Charges (16 Dec 2015)
Third Avenue Fund's Eerie Financial-Crisis Echo (16 Dec 2015)
UK Rates and NI outstrip corporation tax take (16 Dec 2015)
Former Russian Nuclear Energy Official Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations (16 Dec 2015)
Will Sri Lanka follow the dismal road to tax havenry? (15 Dec 2015)
Big business paid 18% less UK corporation tax last year (15 Dec 2015)
New website shows European countries that facilitate tax cheating (15 Dec 2015)
Tackling corporate tax avoidance is an alternative to EU austerity (15 Dec 2015)
Brussels wants more information on Apple's Irish taxes (15 Dec 2015)
Starbucks pays £8m in UK tax as profits surge (15 Dec 2015)
Curbing Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion And Tax Havens (14 Dec 2015)
Ryanair and Brookfield embroiled in tax evasion investigation and 'letterbox company' allegations (15 Dec 2015)
Lionel Messi tax fraud investigation dropped in Barcelona (15 Dec 2015)
UK: Why we have to fill in FOUR tax returns a year (15 Dec 2015)
Number of female billionaires increases sevenfold in 20 years (15 Dec 2015)
More Fictitious Numbers from PwC's Total Tax Contribution: UK businesses' tax burden rises despite chancellor George Osborne's Osborne's cuts to corporation tax (15 Dec 2015)
One percent of China billionaires jailed for bribery, other crimes - report (15 Dec 2015)
HMRC’s digital accounting will become the biggest obstacle to small business growth in UK history (14 Dec 2015)
Shell and Eni’s Misadventures in Nigeria (14 Dec 2015)
Outcry over royal warrant handed to foreign-owned firms 'who legally avoid paying tax' (14 Dec 2015)
Royal warrant companies accused of using tax havens and moving their manufacturing out of Britain (14 Dec 2015)
Aurum Holdings which owns Mappin & Webb 'paid no corporation tax on £66m profit' (14 Dec 2015)
Prosecutors drag Ryanair into tax evasion inquiry (14 Dec 2015)
Ryanair Caught Up In Brookfield Aviation Tax Evasion Probe (14 Dec 2015)
How Microsoft moves profits offshore to cut its tax bill (14 Dec 2015)
The Surprising Relationship Between Taxes and Charitable Giving (14 Dec 2015)
Norway's Green Commission Urges More Carbon Taxation (14 Dec 2015)
Personal tax accounts launched by HMRC (14 DEc 2015)
Four and a half years for greedy investment banker in tax fraud (14 Dec 2015)
HMRC steps up tax evasion drive after 58% rise in convictions (14 Dec 2015)
Tax efficiency alone is no reason to do a deal (14 Dec 2015)
Finland's basic-income experiment (14 Dec 2015)
Battle over coal mine reveals Russian billionaire's UK links (14 Dec 2015)
US steps up pressure against banks in Fifa probe (14 Dec 2015)
Take HSBC, add Jersey and mix with HMRC (12 Dec 2015)
Charity shops involved in tax avoidance, Northern Irish minister warns (12 Dec 2015)
It's official: The Bush tax plan loses trillions and worsens inequality (12 Dec 2015)
HSBC Jersey clients quizzed by HMRC (12 Dec 2015)
Former Greystone Financial Services director Neil Williams-Denton has been found guilty of conspiracy to cheat HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) (12 Dec 2015)
Billionaire Chinese businessman disappears amid corruption crackdown (12 Dec 2015)
Spain to erase Isle of Man from tax haven blacklist (12 Dec 2015)
School fees paid from tax havens (12 Dec 2015)
Vanda Gould loses appeal in A$30 million taxation case (12 Dec 2015)
Panama thumbs its nose at transparency – again (11 Dec 2015)
What Makes Delaware an Onshore Tax Haven (11 Dec 2015)
What world do the tax profession live in? (11 Dec 2015)
Country-by-Country regime passed by Australian Parliament (11 Dec 2015)
Tax rules could make HMRC “judge, jury and executioner” (11 Dec 2015)
Corporate tax avoidance damaging public trust (11 Dec 2015)
City traders jailed in film tax scam (11 Dec 2015)
Vanguard Whistleblower Could Get Billions in Tax Dodge Complaint (11 Dec 2015)
Italy says international tax dodger amnesty is bringing in billions (11 Dec 2015)
U.S. blacklists ex-yakuza living in Cambodia over Yamaguchi-gumi money laundering (11 Dec 2015)
Corruption is a national economic terror: Supreme Court (11 Dec 2015)
Yahoo's Spinoff Plan Does Not Change Its Tax Risk (11 Dec 2015)
Scandals could lead to the end of UK corporation tax (11 Dec 2015)
Bermuda link in Botswana president tax row (11 Dec 2015)
Tax havens and the role of multinationals running care services (10 Dec 2015)
Lazonick: tax cheating is just part of Pfizer’s corrupt business model (10 Dec 2015)
Tax competition only exists to undermine the state and the well-being of ordinary people (10 Dec 2015)
Tax Competition and the Diverted Profits Tax (10 Dec 2015)
It’s time for KPMG to answer questions on Tax Reporting Standards (10 /?Dec 2015)
New Study: Illicit Financial Flows Hit US$1.1 Trillion in 2013 : US$7.8 Trillion drains from Developing World from 2004-2013 (10 Dec 2015)
China, Russia, Mexico, India, Malaysia are Biggest Exporters of Illicit Capital over Decade (10 Dec 2015)
RBS pays €23.8m to settle tax evasion inquiry into Coutts' Swiss operation (10 Dec 2015)
RBS's Coutts Unit Fined in Germany Over Alleged Tax Evasion (10 Dec 2015)
Ireland: Tax expert and high-profile doctors on latest defaulters' list (10 Dec 2015)
Government softens plan to criminalise unwitting offshore tax evasion (10 Dec 2015)
Italy to Get $4.4 Billion in Proceeds from Tax Amnesty (10 Dec 2015)
U.K. Agency Failing in Money-Laundering Fight (10 Dec 2015)
ATO targets adviser firms on offshore tax evasion (10 Dec 2015)
Icelanders Use Religion to Dodge Taxes (10 Dec 2015)
Australian police raid Sydney home of reported bitcoin creator (10 Dec 2025)
The Oxford Centre for the Non-Taxation of Business is at it again on corppration tax (9 Dec 2015)
Jersey: the fall of a Finance-Cursed tax haven (9 Dec 2015)
The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust (9 Dec 2015)
Ten EU countries agree on aspects of a financial-transaction tax (9 Dec 2015)
U.K. Objects to Transaction-Tax Plan as EU Talks Head Into 2016 (9 Dec 2016)
Orica ran $900m tax scheme to lift its share price (9 Dec 2015)
EU, San Marino sign new tax transparency agreement (9 Dec 2015)
Taxmen tackle illicit financial flows, tax evasion (9 Dec 2015)
US launches trade dispute with China over tax on imported aircraft (9 Dec 2015)
ATO targets elite school fees from offshore tax havens (9 Dec 2015)
Revolving doors: Gordon Brown to join investment firm Pimco's global advisory board (9 Dec 2015)
Icelanders flock to religion revering Sumerian gods and tax rebates (9 Dec 2015)
COP21 – TJN statement to the Citizen’s Climate Summit in Paris (7 Dec 2015)
Three ways to stop the Cadbury's tax abuse (7 Dec 2015)
UK fails to persuade overseas territories to tackle tax haven secrecy (7 Dec 2015)
Cadbury owner 'paid no tax in Britain' for last five years (7 Dec 2015)
Cadbury owner paid no UK corporation tax last year (7 Dec 2015)
Google, Apple and Starbucks would face 'laughable' fines for tax dodging under new rules (7 Dec 2015)
Banks which helped American clients dodge tax receive immunity (7 Dec 2015)
Luxembourg says to appeal against EU tax ruling on Fiat (7 Dec 2015)
50% OF SALFORD CITY FC NOW HELD IN TAX HAVEN VIRGIN ISLANDS (7 Dec 2015)
Finland plans to give each of its citizens 800 euros a month (7 Dec 2015)
Fifa: FBI probing Sepp Blatter role in $100m bribery scandal (7 Dec 2015)
Surge in companies set up to dodge George Osborne's tax rise on buy-to-lets (7 Dec 2015)
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg defends philanthropic venture against tax avoidance claims (7 Dec 2015)
UK Tax returns to be quarterly for landlords and self-employed (7 Dec 2015)
Corruption Is Just a Symptom, Not the Disease (7 Dec 2015)
Shell companies: UK statement on public registers – and an animated video (4 Dec 2015)
Three Tax Whistleblowers Who Changed The Game (4 Dec 2015)
Now the Financial Reporting Council is realising tax is a risk that needs to be reported (4 Dec 2015)
Tax systems: A channel for corruption – or a way to fight it? (4 Dec 2015)
Exxon and Chevron keep U.S. tax payments secret, undermine government transparency push (4 Dec 2015)
France backs country-by-country corporate tax reporting from 2016 (4 Dec 2015)
Households forced to plug corporate tax gap, says OECD (4 Dec 2015)
Individuals are shouldering more of the tax burden as companies find ways to pay less (4 Dec 2015)
Read OECD Report: Revenue Statistics 1965-2014 (4 Dec 2015)
State aid: European Commission opens formal investigation into Luxembourg's tax treatment of McDonald's (4 Dec 2015)
Sunshine Islands Feel Heat Over Tax Avoidance (4 Dec 2015)
Closing offshore subsidiaries boosts Ireland corporation tax (4 Dec 2015)
Making Sense of Profit Shifting: Edward Kleinbard (4 Dec 2015)
Why Corporate Tax Reform Can Happen by Edward Kleinbard (4 Dec 2015)
Strippers told to reveal all about tax to HMRC (4 Dec 2015)
Belgium braced for order to claw back €700m in corporate taxes (4 Dec 2015)
Australian multinational tax avoidance laws to come into effect next year (4 Dec 2015)

The Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg and an act of charity that reeks of hypocrisy (4 Dec 2015)
Facebook: How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (4 Dec 2015)
High profile accountant convicted of £6m tax evasion (4 Dec 2015)
Accountant convicted of evading more than £6m in tax (4 Dec 2015)
Outdated inheritance tax too toxic to save, says UK thinktank (4 Dec 2015)
The IMF Is Pushing for Carbon Taxes, But at What Price? (4 Dec 2015)
The fiction of Total Tax Contribution: City of London's tax bill hits highest since financial crisis (4 Dec 2015)
The fiction of Total Tax Contribution: UK Banks pay lowest proportion of tax since before financial crisis (4 Dec 2015)
Why the time for Tax Reporting Standards has arrived (3 Dec 2015)
Yahoo Is Looking for a New Way Around Alibaba Taxes (3 Dec 2015)
EU Hunts McDonald's No-Tax Secret Sauce, Could End Love For Tax-Free Royalties (3 Dec 2015)
Ex-Citigroup Construction Executive Admits Taking $500000 in Bribes (3 Dec 2015)
UK Revenue chalks up win in £54m Ladbrokes case (3 Dec 2015)
Court rules against Ladbrokes over £54m corporation tax avoidance scheme (3 Dec 2015)
UK Tax Tribunal Judgement - Another Deloitte tax scheme : Travel Document Service & Anor v Revenue & Customs (INCOME TAX/CORPORATION TAX : Anti-avoidance) [2015] UKFTT 582 (TC) (19 November 2015) (3 Dec 2015)
Elon Musk says robust carbon tax would speed global clean energy transition (3 Dec 2015)
Congo mine tests Glencore's efforts to weather copper slump (3 Dec 2015)
Australia Greens accused of 'selling out' over deal with Coalition on tax transparency (3 Dec 2015)
Higher taxes on cigarettes in US prevents babies from DYING (3 Dec 2015)
Fifa corruption investigation: two more top officials arrested in dawn raids (3 Dec 2015)
Facebook taxes are more use that Zuckerberg philanthropy (3 Dec 2015)
For Facebook's Zuckerberg, Charitable Is in Eye of Beholder (3 Dec 2015)
The great Facebook giveaway - how will it work? (3 Dec 2015)
Sweett Group admits bribery and now faces SFO prosecution (3 Dec 2015)
FIRB adds taxation condition to clearance of Shell's BG takeover (3 Dec 2015)
Pfizer's Long War on Taxation (3 Dec 2015)
European Parliament tax investigation continued: Strong mandate for new committee to continue tax investigation (2 Dec 2015)
The need for Tax Reporting Standards (2 Dec 2015)
U.S. Congress Should Embrace the International Consensus to Crack Down on Corporate Tax Avoidance (2 Dec 2015)
Ex-money launderer Kenneth Rijock offers tips for whistleblowers (2 Dec 2015)
McDonald's to be investigated over suspected sweetheart tax arrangements (2 Dec 2015)
Corruption in Africa leads to poverty and human rights abuses – and Britain is complicit (2 Dec 2015)
Pfizer Merger Shows Need for U.S. Tax Changes, Lawmaker Says (2 Dec 2015)
Sweett Group admits Middle East bribery (2 Dec 2015)
SPFL sponsor Ladbrokes loses £54million in tax avoidance case (2 Dec 2015)
Britain's island tax havens need action (2 Dec 2015)
Film scheme investors win right to appeal tax avoidance ruling (2 Dec 2015)
Kenya as a tax haven would be a ‘financial crime aircraft carrier’ (1 Dec 2015)
The people of Jersey aren’t happy at being a tax haven – and rightly so (1 Dec 2015)
New study: corporate tax cuts may have been ‘the greatest blunder’ (1 Dec 2015)
EU Investigation into tax avoidance continues (1 Dec 2015)
EU committee to vote on plans to curb tax avoidance (1 Dec 2015)
FRC calls for transparent disclosure of tax risks in corporate reports (1 Dec 2015)
Post on Facebook - and get a tax bill (1 Dec 2015)
Germany Investigating Volkswagen Employees For Emissions Scandal Related Tax Evasion (1 Dec 2015)
KPMG appoints London legal firm as part of tax four probe (1 Dec 2015)
British American Tobacco 'bribed politicians to sabotage anti-smoking laws' (1 Dec 2015)
Africa's business tycoons highly corrupt, Transparency says (1 Dec 2015)
Europe’s money-laundering machine: still spinning (1 Dec 2015)
The Snowden Of Swiss Bank Accounts Is Sentenced To Prison While White Collar Criminals Go Free (1 Dec 2015)
Turkish newspaper says faces tax inspection after journalists arrested (1 Dec 2015)
Luxembourg accuses EU of fomenting business uncertainty over tax (1 Dec 2015)
Australia Tax transparency: one in six exempt companies are political donors or government contractors (1 Dec 2015)
BDO seek to appeal Rangers tax case decision over use of EBTs (1 Dec 2015)

NOVEMBER 2015

UK secrecy jurisdictions are still helping criminals the world over (30 Nov 2015)
The fight for country-by-country reporting is under way and has to be won (30 Nov 2015)
If markets are to survive those who believe in them need to stand up to tax havens (30 Nov 2015)
The UK's corruption problem: Progress made and progress that needs to be made in the UK's overseas territories (30 Nov 2015)
Dear Prime Minister: letter to David Cameron - Don't Bomb Syria (30 Nov 2015)
Demand overseas territories crack down on tax dodging shell firms, PM told (30 Nov 2015)
Cayman Islands reject Cameron's tax offensive (30 Nov 2015)
Tax avoidance is the corporate American way. So spare us the Pfizer hypocrisy (30 Nov 2015)
Deutsche Bank created complex tax avoidance strategies (30 Nov 2015)
American big business faces the G20 in a fight for $2.1tn in unpaid tax (30 Nov 2015)
The secret bribes of big tobacco (30 Nov 2015)
Osborne's tax swipe leaves top footballers out of pocket (30 Nov 2015)
Standard Bank to pay $32.6m over Tanzania bribery scandal (30 Nov 2015)
SFO agrees first UK Deferred Prosecution Agreement ( DPA) with Standard Bank (30 Nov 2015)
Pfizer Merger Illustrates Need to Outlaw Tax Havens (30 Nov 2015)
'Pay now question later': the future of UK tax collection (30 Nov 2015)
The Autumn Statement confirms that we are on a path of never-ending austerity (27 Nov 2015)
How the U.S.A. became a secrecy jurisdiction (27 Nov 2015)
Greek shipowners and the competitiveness threat (27 Nov 2015)
The last thing HMRC needs to be is a digital powerhouse (27 Nov 2015)
Dutch government to appeal Starbucks tax ruling (27 Nov 2015)
Dutch government to appeal EU ruling on Starbucks tax deal (27 Nov 2015)
Successor to Special Committee on Tax Rulings (27 Nov 2015)
US Treasury Department links Belize as tax haven for ISIS (27 Nov 2015)
HSBC whistleblower given five years' jail over biggest leak in banking history (27 Nov 2015)
This will frighten tax avoiders: HMRC asks tax avoiders to promise to be good (27 Nov 2015)
HMRC declares an end to 'hiding money in another country' from January (27 Nov 2015)
Google and PwC to establish joint base in Belfast (27 Nov 2015)
Ireland, the tax haven of choice for Pfizer (27 Nov 2015)
Bribery: Near-Record U.S. Penalty Seen for VimpelCom in Uzbek Case (27 Nov 2015)
Sean Connery's wife charged with Spanish property tax fraud (27 Nov 2015)
Luxury goods retailers are being used for money laundering (27 Nov 2015)
Arrested KPMG partners questioned over finance company (27 Nov 2015)
KPMG tax evasion probe widens after four partners are held (27 Nov 2015)
George Osborne may have to raise UK taxes more to hit surplus target, IFS warns (27 Nov 2015)
Here are the top 10 countries where British criminals launder their money (27 Nov 2015)
UK Ministers lose £80m in revenue after scrapping car tax discs (27 Nov 2015)
EU citizens back tougher action on tax avoidance (27 Nov 2015)
European Parliament tax investigation: Special committee extension blocked to protect Juncker and Dijsselbloem (26 Nov 2015)
Barclays fined £72m by FCA for poor checks on wealthy clients (26 Nov 2015)
FCA fines Barclays £72 million for poor handling of financial crime risks (26 Nov 2015)
Deutsche Bank's Swiss Unit to Pay $31 Million in Tax Case (26 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA Reaches Resolution under Swiss Bank Program (26 Nov 2015)
Germany helps Greece to crack down on tax cheats (26 Nov 2015)
Senior Brazilian senator and billionaire CEO both arrested for corruption (26 Nov 2015)
Four top KPMG accountants arrested over alleged tax fraud (26 Nov 2015)
Four KPMG partners in Belfast put on leave as HMRC begin investigation (26 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Privatbank IHAG Zürich AG Reaches Resolution Under Swiss Bank Program (26 Nov 2015)
HMRC a digital tax titan? It can't even answer the phone (26 Nov 2015)
Autumn Statement: GAAR to gain extra teeth as HMRC efficiencies reinvested (26 Nov 2015)
Autumn Statement: Osborne accused of resorting to stealth taxes (26 Nov 2015)
UK Chancellor creates 60% penalty for GAAR tax cases (26 Nov 2015)
Germany gives Greece names of 10000 citizens suspected of dodging taxes (25 Nov 2015)
EU lawmakers step up pressure to tackle tax dodging (25 Nov 2015)
Pfizer Merger Illustrates Need to Outlaw Tax Havens (25 Nov 2015)
Irish taxman sees corporate tax bonanza this year and next (25 Nov 2015)
UK 'Tampon tax' proceeds to go to women's charities (25 Nov 2015)
Tougher penalties revealed for UK tax evaders (25 Nov 2015)
Osborne targets tax avoiders with 60% penalty (25 Nov 2015)
Fury over Osborne's £11.6bn business 'payroll tax' (25 Nov 2015)
Chancellor creates 60% penalty for GAAR tax cases (25 Nov 2016)
Osborne's apprenticeship tax sets alarm bells ringing (25 Nov 2015)
Osborne leaves future of pension tax relief hanging in Autumn Statement (25 Nov 2015)
UK Tax returns will have to be filed four times a year, George Osborne announces (25 Nov 2015)
Spending Review: George Osborne U-turn over tax credits (25 Nov 2015)
Autumn Statement 2015: Tax changes in the pipeline (25 Nov 2015)
OBR admits uncertainty over £27bn windfall behind tax credit U-turn (25 Nov 2015)
US Corporate tax: The $240bn black hole (25 Nov 2015)
HMRC cuts mean £34bn in lost taxes, warns SNP (25 Nov 2015)
Tax Justice Focus – The Whistleblower edition (24 Nov 2015)
New report: tax treaties in sub-Saharan Africa (24 Nov 2015)
The right wing fundamentalism of the Institute for Fiscal Studies on display again (24 Nov 2015)
US Congress Must Act Now to Stop Pfizer and Other Companies from Inverting (24 Nov 2015)
German prosecutors launch tax evasion probe at Volkswagen (24 Nov 2015)
Inversions divert tax dollars and undermine the USA's reputation (24 Nov 2015)
Pfizer's $155bn takeover of Allergan set to prompt tax row (24 Nov 2015)
5 global drugmakers pay the lowest taxes (24 Nov 2015)
Pfizer's Allergan Deal Offers Ireland Few New Benefits (24 Nov 2015)
City minnow Welbeck Solutions named as Britain's biggest seller of tax avoidance products (24 Nov 2015)

Another big corporation is flagrantly dodging tax. This must be outlawed (24 Nov 2015)
Corruption rife among accountants, says survey of profession (24 Nov 2015)
Unethical practices rife among accountants (24 Nov 2015)
San Marino - Wanted: central bank boss to fix 1700-year-old European tax haven (24 Nov 2015)
Corporate Welfare: UK to give Petrobras £330m despite the company facing corruption charges (24 Nov 2015)
Tax 'should be paid where products sold' (24 Nov 2015)
Tax transparency: full list of exempt companies revealed as Australia Senate battle looms (24 Nov 2015)
Alberta to introduce carbon tax (24 Nov 2015)
Australia: Tax rich old men, restrict wealthy pumping pre-tax income into super: report (24 Nov 2015)
HBOS report does little to tackle systemic problems (23 Nov 2015)
The Tax Justice Network’s November 2015 Taxcast (23 Nov 2015)
Fisking the Telegraph’s claims on corporation tax (23 Nov 2015)
UN Principles for Responsible Investment engagement guidance: Engagement guidance on corporate tax responsibility (23 Nov 2015)
UK still a safe haven for dirty money, study finds (23 Nov 2015)
UK failing to stop the flow of dirty cash - Anti-money laundering controls in the UK not fit for purpose (23 Nov 2015)
Don't Look, Won't Find: Weaknesses in the supervision of the UK’s anti-money laundering rules (23 Nov 2015)
Welbeck Solutions: Whistleblower exposes secretive city firm at the heart of vast tax avoidance operation (23 Nov 2015)
Inside the Money Laundering Scheme That Citi Overlooked for Years (23 Nov 2015)
Didn't Pay Your Taxes? You Could Lose Your US Passport (23 Nov 2015)
Extra corporate tax collected from largest UK companies falls 13% (23 Nov 2015)
Only concerned with their short-term gains: HSBC shareholder Standard Life would back moving HQ (23 Nov 2015)
Pfizer gets tax boost in record-breaking $160bn Allergan deal (23 Nov 2015)
Pfizer and Allergan poised to announce history's biggest healthcare merger (23 Nov 2015)
Labour to probe tax breaks for UK businesses (23 Nov 2015)
Fund managers urged to insist on greater tax transparency (23 Nov 2015)
Paris Attacks to Boost Money Laundering Enforcement (23 Nov 2015)
UK Government Technical consultation on draft regulations for country-by-country reporting (23 Nov 2015)
US IRS Urged to Focus Audits on Wealthiest (23 Nov 2015)
In his clumsy way, Guy Hands has revealed a dark truth about private equity (23 Nov 2015)
Majority of Calpers private equity investments contain tax deal (23 Nov 2015)
HMRC criticised by Tax Tribunal judge for not treaing taxpayer fairly - Hely -Hutchinson, R (On the Application Of) v Revenue And Customs [2015] EWHC 3261 (Admin) (11 November 2015) (23 Nov 2015)
Tax schemes: HMRC urged to stop bankrupting investors (23 Nov 2015)
The Norwegian shareholder registry is now open for all (20 Nov 2015)
Why we need public country by country reporting (20 Nov 2015)
Vanguard, Facing Whistle-Blower Cases, Agrees to Pay Taxes (20 Nov 2015)
Pfizer Heads for Fight With US on Tax-Saving Allergan Deal (20 Nov 2015)
US Treasury and IRS Propose Rules to Curb Corporate Relocations for Tax Reasons (20 Nov 2015)
Rangers oldco liquidators BDO to launch final appeal over Big Tax Case with Supreme Court (20 Nov 2015)
Uber Australia is broke: 'We don't pay tax because we don't generate revenue' (20 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Three Banks Reach Resolutions Under Swiss Bank Program (20 Nov 2015)
Swiss banks to pay $81 mln, avoid US charges on aiding tax evasion (20 Nov 2015)
India Government releases roadmap for phasing out corporate tax exemptions; no weighted deductions from April 1, 2017 (20 Nov 2015)
More Banks Spill Tax Evasion Secrets To Avoid Criminal Charges, Account Holders Beware (20 Nov 2015)
Nigeria: Ekiti government seals off banks, telecoms firms over tax evasion (20 Nov 2015)
A re-organised HMRC: Friend or foe? )20 Nov 2015)
China arrests crack $125bn underground bank network (20 Nov 2015)
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #71 (19 Nov 2015)
Limitations of the BEPS Reforms: Looking Beyond Corporate Taxation for Revenue Gains (19 Nov 2015)
Measuring Misalignment: the Location of US Multinationals’ Economic Activity Versus the Location of their Profits (19 Nov 2015)
What Do We Know about Mineral Resource Rent Sharing in Africa? (19 Nov 2015)
Offshore landownership frustrates police investigation (19 Nov 2015)
Elizabeth Warren Calls Corporate-Profits Proposals a 'Wet Kiss' to Tax Avoiders (19 Oct 2015)
Warren: Large corporations have too many ways to avoid paying taxes (19 Oct 2015)
Landlords delay repairs to maximise 'wear and tear' tax break (19 Nov 2015)
Nigeria's Dasuki 'stole $2bn' from anti-Boko Haram fight (19 Nov 2015)
Nobody has been jailed in India for tax evasion (19 Nov 2015)
Welsh town to copy Isle of Man model in TV tax haven documentary (19 Nov 2015)
Oxfam, Christian Aid and Action Aid on corporation tax (18 Nov 2015)
Getting to Good – towards responsible corporate tax behaviour (18 Nov 2015)
Uber attacked by Australian tax commissioner as 'big multinational player' (18 Nov 2015)
The multinationals' rhetoric isn't reassuring on tricky tax affairs (18 Nov 2015)
Chevron 'godfather' of Aust tax avoidance (18 Nov 2015)
Chevron hits out at 'tax dodger' claims at fiery Senate inquiry (18 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Maerki Baumann & Co. AG Reaches Resolution Under Swiss Bank Program (18 Nov 2015)
Black money: India Income tax department to review HSBC accounts, ICIJ cases tomorrow (18 Nov 2015)
The Intractable Problem of Tax Havens (18 Nov 2015)
Umbrella Companies: Firm claimed to "maximise your pay" while taking sneaky deductions (18 Nov 2015)
Transfer pricing: Shifting profits from hard-to-value intangibles (18 Nov 2015)
Tax Tribunal denies Freemasons appeal for VAT exemption (18 Nov 2015)
Why we don't need capital gains tax entrepreneur's relief (17 Nov 2015)
Multinationals deny wrongdoing in EP tax hearing (17 Nov 2015)
Tough debate with multinational companies on corporate tax practices (17 Nov 2015)
Facebook, Google Quizzed by EU Lawmakers on Dutch Sandwich Deals (17 Nov 2015)
Almost half of FTSE 350 companies pay less than 20% corporation tax (17 Nov 2015)
FATCA Helps IRS Net £5 Billion In Lost Tax (17 Nov 2015)
HMRC grows Affluent Unit in tax avoidance crackdown (17 Nov 2015)
Top Clinton Adviser Says Wealthy Should Pay More in Taxes (17 Nov 2015)
Bureaux de change pay the price as money-laundering rules bite (17 Nov 2015)
UK crackdown on non-doms is unfair, say accountants (17 Nov 2015)
Who has won from austerity? (16 Nov 2015)
Insight - How Pfizer has shifted US profits overseas for years (16 Nov 2015)
MEPs accuse US multinationals of diverting profits to low tax havens (16 Nov 2015)
Tax scheme celebs ordered to pay up as Treasury calls in stars' huge bills (16 Nov 2015)
Were G20 corruption promises nothing more than a photo-op? (16 Nov 2015)
G20 economies back clampdown on tax avoidance (16 Nov 2015)
Lucian Freud archive given to nation in lieu of £2.9m in inheritance tax (16 Nov 2015)
Australia: Uber, Airbnb to be hauled before Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance (16 Nov 2015)
Allergan warns US against any move on tax inversion deals (16 Nov 2015)
Alstom Sentenced to Pay $772 Million Criminal Fine to Resolve Foreign Bribery Charges (16 Nov 2016)
New Zealand to tax offshore online services (16 Nov 2015)
Iceland has jailed 26 bankers, why won't we? (16 Nov 2015)
HMRC increases affluent unit headcount (16 Nov 2015)
Who ultimately pays the corporate income tax? (Again.) (13 Nov 2015)
Jersey is the breeding ground for inequality (13 Nov 2015)
Britain can force its tax havens to curb secrecy. But will it? (13 Nov 2015)
'Devastating' HMRC closure plan must be subject to parliamentary review (13 Nov 2015)
Finland Minister Toivakka in tax avoidance row (13 Nov 2015)
Wells Fargo's Tax-Credit Scheme Ruled a Sham - Designed by KPMG and Barclays (13 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) SA (BIL Switzerland) and Zuger Kantonalbank (ZGKB) Reach Resolutions Under Swiss Bank Program (13 Nov 2015)
Liechtenstein used to disclose UK tax debts (13 Nov 2015)
ECOSOC published a shocking report indicating that national governments lose billions in uncollected global corporate income tax revenues (13 Nov 2015)
No more retrospective taxes in India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (13 Nov 2015)
Rare tax reliefs — the last of the loopholes (13 Nov 2015)
The Latest Lure From Abroad for US Firms - Innovation/Patent Boxes (13 Nov 2015)
Tax bill could kibosh Dell-EMC deal (13 Nov 2015)
High-class escort agency boss jailed after funding lavish lifestyle through tax dodging and benefit fraud (13 Nov 2015)
UK Prime Minister's letter to the OverseasTerritories on beneficial ownership (13 Nov 2015)
Crickhowell and the tax rebellion: the mouse that roared? (12 Nov 2015)
Tax cutting has run out of road (12 Nov 2015)
France backs country-by-country corporate tax reporting from 2016 (12 Nov 2015)
European Savings Tax Directive Repealed (12 Nov 2015)
Protecting tax privacy for the uber-rich is a strange thing to take a stand on (12 Nov 2015)
Flash - Africa 'losing 60 bn euros a year in tax evasion': Senegal's Sall (12 Nov 2015)
Tax haven Zug makes residency easier for the rich (12 Nov 2015)
Australia: Senate repeals tax secrecy law after ‘astroturf’ revelations (12 Nov 2015)
It's Insane How Giant Corporations Avoid Paying Taxes & And No One Is Upset (12 Nov 2015)
ATO widens tax haven probe (12 Nov 2015)
Loss between $100 to $240 billion from corporate tax avoidance (12 Nov 2015)
One Direction rack up £45.4m profit – and pay more tax than Facebook (12 Nov 2015)
HMRC plans to shut 170 local tax offices (12 Nov 2015)
HMRC: Fears over hundreds of tax office jobs across Wales (12 Nov 2015)
How Ireland became an offshore financial centre (11 Nov 2015)
Crickhowell: Welsh town moves 'offshore' to avoid tax on local business (11 Nov 2015)
Facebook, McDonald's and Amazon Among 11 Companies to Face EU Tax Grilling (11 Nov 2015)
Australia Senate setback offers Coalition an ultimatum on multinational tax changes (11 Nov 2015)
One Direction Paid $15.9 Million More in UK Taxes than Facebook (11 Nov 2015)
New York Fed Tells Scotiabank to Fix Anti-Money-Laundering Deficiencies (11 Nov 2015)
Bank of England's Carney: Markets 'tainted' by misconduct (11 Nov 2015)
Apple creates 1000 new jobs in Ireland as EU tax ruling looms (11 Nov 2015)
Still Broken: major new report on global corporate tax cheating (10 Nov 2015)
STILL BROKEN Governments must do more to fix the international corporate tax system (10 Nov 2015)
Who runs our countries: us, or global finance? (10 Nov 2015)
BEPS: The scale of Base Erosion and Profits Shifting (10 Nov 2015)
Guest blog: sun, sea, sand, tourism and fantasy finance (10 Nov 2015)
EU Savings taxation directive repealed (10 Nov 2015)
US corporations avoid an estimated $2 billion tax every year in Australia (10 Nov 2015)
AB InBev, HSBC, Google, eight others to testify at EU tax hearing (10 Nov 2015)
Why doesn't the UK want to talk tax with Europe? (10 Nov 2015)
The UK's tax avoidance scandal is a sorry tale (10 Nov 2015)
HMRC failing to answer 12m tax inquiries (10 Nov 2015)
Waitrose boss Mark Price says Britain should turn its back on capitalism (10 Nov 2015)
Britain's £34bn uncollected 'tax gap' is no worse than other countries', says HMRC tax head (10 Nov 2015)
Premier Inn boss calls for Airbnb tax clampdown (10 Nov 2015)
Alma's UK clients set to hit £100m in R&D tax claims (10 Nov 2015)
Dell-EMC deal threatened by possible $9 billion tax bill (10 Nov 2015)
Brazil plans to tax Airbnb rentals ahead of Olympics (10 Nov 2015)
UK Tax incentive axed for local energy projects (10 Nov 2015)
UK and China: the national security threat from the City of London (9 Nov 2015)
Rangers' EBT: why the Court of Session got it right (9 Nov 2015)
How to Curtail Offshore Tax Avoidance (9 Nov 2015)
Tax-avoidance Gibraltar firm behind anti-EU campaign group (9 Nov 2015)
Ireland still sees EU tax decision on Apple by year-end (9 Nov 2015)
Osborne to close tax loophole of staff being paid 'off the books': Move follows furore over BBC stars (9 Nov 2015)
Pfizer Piles Profits Abroad (9 Nov 2015)
Ex-Allergan CEO Says Pfizer Deal All About Tax (And That's OK) (9 Nov 2015)
Europe May Not Be a Tax Haven for U.S. Multinationals Much Longer (9 Nov 2015)
Jail HSBC worker who leaked 'tax dodge' documents for six years, prosecutor urges (9 Nov 2015)
HMRC: Millions of letters go unanswered for three weeks or more by taxman (9 Nov 2015)
HMRC fails to answer hundreds of thousands of tax credit calls (9 Nov 2015)
Guernsey directors fined for anti-money laundering failings (9 Nov 2015)
The Price We Pay: As US Becomes a Top Tax Haven, How Hiding Wealth Offshore Robs the People at Home (6 Nov 2015)
The Price We Pay: Inside the World of Big Corporate Tax Havens and Offshore Finance (Pt. 2) (6 Nov 2015)
After big spending and hard lobbying, Pfizer eyes new tax home (6 Nov 2015)
Crackdown on personal service companies could raise £400m in tax (6 Nov 2015)
Germany Stands Firm on Taxes in Cash-and-Stock Acquisitions (6 Nov 2015)
Eurostar stake sale left UK taxpayer £2.3bn out of pocket, says NAO (6 Nov 2015)
Channel Islands removed from US tax haven blacklist (6 Nov 2015)
Rangers tax case decision 'astonishing' – Rebus (6 Nov 2015)
Donald Trump brings up Ireland in criticism of US tax policy (6 Nov 2015)
Rangers lose the big tax case: what now? (5 Nov 2015)
Dutch government obstructing TAXE investigation (5 Nov 2015)
A year after LuxLeaks, it is high time for EU action on corporate tax-dodging (5 Nov 2015)
Luxleaks and tax avoidance at EU level: Talk less, act more (5 Nov 2015)
A year on, Europe's tax affairs are still a mystery (5 Nov 2015)
Secret tax archives: UK joins move to block MEPs' access (5 Nov 2015)
EU parliament approves rules shining a light on shadow banking (5 Nov 2015)
TPP: Trans-Pacific Partnership text finally revealed in detail (5 Nov 2015)
Gambling laws: government should impose national tax, says senator (5 Nov 2015)
Jean-Marie Le Pen's home raided by police after allegations of tax evasion (5 Nov 2015)
Treasury tax plans will 'decimate' UK's community energy projects (5 Nov 2015)
The government’s double standards on trade unions look like class war (4 Nov 2015)
Did HMRC set out to deceive, or was it worse than that? (4 Nov 2015)
The case for corporation tax (4 Nov 2015)
'Abysmal' HMRC customer service 'could be costing the UK money' (4 Nov 2015)
HMRC must report full scale of tax avoidance - MPs (4 Nov 2015)
HMRC: U.K. Offshore Tax Enforcement `Woefully Inadequate,' Panel Says (4 Nov 2015)
1000s 'are stuck on wrong tax rate because HMRC doesn't answer phones' (4 Nov 2015)
Millions could have filled out tax returns wrong due to HMRC phone failures (4 Nov 2015)

UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee Report: HM Revenue & Customs performance in 2014–15 (4 Nov 2015)
We risk discovering the joy of tax only after it is too late (4 Nov 2015)
Corporate tax dodging still rampant in EU (4 Nov 2015)
Corruption feeds and sustains 'spiralling' wildlife and forest crime (4 Nov 2015)
HMRC wins Rangers tax case appeal (4 Nov 2015)
Read the Court judgement in THE ADVOCATE GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND v< style="font-weight: bold; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> (1) MURRAY GROUP HOLDINGS LTD; (2) MURRAY GROUP MANAGEMENT LTD; (3) THE PREMIER PROPERTY GROUP LTD; (4) GM MINING LTD; and (5) RFC 2012 PLC (in liquidation) (formerly The Rangers Football Club PLC) (4 Nov 2015)

10 Former SNS Reaal bankers face prosecution for bribery and fraud (4 Nov 2015)
Vatican inspectors suspect key office was used for money laundering (4 Nov 2015)
CompaniesStanChart faces probes on money laundering, Iran sanctions (4 Nov 2015)
Pay VAT, tax court orders Shell (4 Nov 2015)
'Money Laundering 2% of Colombia GDP' (4 Nov 2015)
Germany helping firms launder money and avoid tax (4 Nov 2015)
Two unexpected countries could be havens for money laundering and tax dodging (4 Nov 2015)
VimpelCom Sets Aside $900 Million Amid Bribery Investigation (4 Nov 2015)
Is HMRC the worst department in Whitehall? (4 Nov 2015)
Tax avoidance: how do multinationals do it and can it be stopped? (4 Nov 2015)
TJN unveils its new Financial Secrecy Index (3 Nov 2015)
Financial Secrecy Index - 2015 Results (3 Nov 2015)
If tax expenditure is £111 billion a year why is the government targeting tax credits? (3 Nov 2015)
Fifty Shades of Tax Dodging: the EU's role in supporting an unjust global tax system (3 Nov 2015)
UK 'more of a tax haven' than Channel Islands, says report (3 Nov 2015)
US overtakes Caymans and Singapore as haven for assets of super-rich (3 Nov 2015)
U.S. Placed Above Cayman Islands in Financial Secrecy Blacklist (3 Nov 2015)
German state buys USB said to hold evidence of €600m in tax avoidance (3 Nov 2015)
EU reviews £355m low value consignment VAT loophole (3 Nov 2015)
Balancing the Books – with One Eye Shut (3 Nov 2015)
Germany Fifa crisis: Tax raid on German football association (3 Nov 2015)
Netherlands plans to rein in tax avoidance during EU presidency (3 Nov 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Banque Bonhôte & Cie SA Reaches Resolution Under Swiss Bank Program (3 Nov 2015)
Trial of former HSBC banker Herve Falciani, the 'Snowden of tax evasion,' starts in Switzerland (3 Nov 2015)
UK current account deficit may reflect corporate tax avoidance - ECB's Lane (3 Nov 2015)
How IKEA Billionaire Legally Avoided Taxes From 1973 Until 2015 (3 Nov 2015)
Billionaire Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad 'pays Swedish tax for first time since 1973' (2 Nov 2015)
UK losing millions in VAT from non-EU sellers on Amazon and eBay (2 Nov 2015)
Rafael Benitez among sports celebrities embroiled in new tax investigation (2 Nov 2015)
Credit Suisse Among Firms Involved in FIFA Corruption Probe (2 Nov 2015)
Credit Suisse being quizzed by US and Swiss authorities investigating allegations of bribery and corruption at Fifa (2 Nov 2015)
The generation wealth gap: use taxation to make society fairer for young and old alike (2 Nov 2015)
George Osborne 'risks huge storm' if he scraps UK pension tax relief (2 Nov 2015)
HMRC 'reluctant' to crack down on VAT fraudsters – tax ace (2 Nov 2015)
HSBC: One of the world's biggest banks still doesn't know where it should be based (2 Nov 2015)
Clever accounting means wrongdoing can offer tax benefits (2 Nov 2015)
Russians tax brains over oil's contribution to state coffers (2 Nov 2015)
Fund houses face 'collateral damage' in tax reform (2 Nov 2015)
Tampon Tax: How VAT is paid on sanitary products in other countries (2 Nov 2015)
Tax evasion and its protectors in high places (2 Nov 2015)
Barcelona star Mascherano admits to tax fraud (2 Nov 2015)

OCTOBER 2015

Starbucks and Fiat’s tax deals upended in new approach to tackling avoidance (30 Oct 2015)
The Tax Justice Network Podcast, October 2015 (30 Oct 2015)
Ten years in the campaign for tax justice - we have a long way to go (30 Oct 2015)
The UK: offering companies as abusive and unaccountable as those in any tax haven (30 Oct 2015)
Entrepreneur's Relief: In 2013-14 just 3,000 people got tax relief of at least £600,000 each at a total cost of at least £1.8 billion (30 Oct 2015)
Luxembourg – how’s that tax cleanup going? (30 Oct 2015)
Google paid €28.6m corporation tax on revenues of €18.3bn in 2014 (30 Oct 2015)
Re-launch of the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) (30 Oct 2015)
Google pays €28m in Irish tax (30 Oct 2015)
HSBC Nemesis Falciani Taunts Swiss Justice a Mile From Border (30 Oct 2015)
London property most overvalued in world (30 Oct 2015)
Wealth of 250 richest people with UK property assets soars 40pc to £300bn (30 Oct 2015)
Moldova faces turmoil after government falls over $1 billion fraud (30 Oct 2015)
Pfizer CEO Says US Tax Regime Pushing Him to Seek Alternative (30 Oct 2015)
UK paying millions in aid money to fund overseas tax havens (30 Oct 2015)
Review: 'The Price We Pay' Maps a Web of Offshore Tax Havens (30 Oct 2015)
HSBC shrinks Bermuda operations (30 Oct 2015)
Small EU team leads tax battle against corporate goliaths (30 Oct 2015)
Starbucks sales set to break $20bn – a latte for everyone on Earth (30 Oct 2015)
Ex-pat property sales could land hefty tax bills: experts (30 Oct 2015)
Deloitte's tax myths need busting (30 Oct 2015)
The largest takeover of the year could be about avoiding US taxes (29 Oct 2015)
Pfizer Deal for Allergan Could Spark Political Fight Over Taxes (29 Oct 2015)
Chevron tax dodge busted for $322 million (29 Oct 2015)
UK Pension tax relief is safe for now (29 Oct 2015)
Top 100 US CEO Retirement Savings Equals 41% of U.S. Families (29 Oct 2015)
Fighting tax evasion: EU and Liechtenstein sign new tax transparency agreement (29 Oct 2015)
OECD Issues Final BEPS Proposal; No Response from Congress Yet (29 Oct 2015)
Russia Outlines Response To BEPS Project Plan (29 Oct 2015)
Lycamobile Reported To Cops For “Money Laundering” (29 Oct 2015)
US IRS Commissioner Koskinen Impeachment Trial Would Be Historic (29 Oct 2015)
UGGGHHHH - A total mispresentation of CCCTB: EU committee pushing to remove tax competition (29 Oct 2015)
BEPS 2015: transfer pricing and OECD Actions 8-10 (29 Oct 2015)
How the wealth managers do it: an in-depth investigation (28 Oct 2015)
Government to cut tax relief for community green energy schemes (28 Oct 2015)
EU bosses tell Britain we CAN axe the tampon tax (28 Oct 2015)
IRS Would More Easily Audit Large Partnerships Under Proposal (28 Oct 2015)
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho in £24k stamp duty tax avoidance on £1.5m Portuguese home (28 Oct 2015)
Israel Ex-defense minister Ben-Eliezer to be indicted for graft (28 Oct 2015)
EU and Liechtenstein sign deal to crack down on tax cheats (28 Oct 2015)
Details Released in Dutch Sheriff Gaming Tax-Evasion Case (28 Oct 2015)
Serious Fraud Office investigating 'money-laundering' related to Fifa (28 Oct 2015)
Bribery & Corruption - Fifa crisis: Brazil's José Maria Marin agrees to US extradition (28 Oct 2015)
Fairer corporate taxes: EU Special Committee on Tax Rulings votes recommendations (27 Oct 2015)
Council deal on automatic exchange of tax rulings is a “missed opportunity” (27 Oct 2015)
EU Tax panel compels companies to testify (27 Oct 2015)
SNP attacks private equity's 'Mayfair millionaire tax loophole' (27 Oct 2015)
India to apply 5 pct withholding tax to offshore rupee bonds -official (27 Oct 2015)
UK MPs reject 'tampon tax' challenge in Commons vote (27 Oct 2015)
UK Wealthy given five-month 'window' to save into pensions before cuts to tax relief (27 Oct 2015)
HMRC to target cross border Scots tax avoiders (27 Oct 2015)
Corruption and natural resources – A fight for light: NGOs and governments grapple over ownership of mining and energy firms (27 Oct 2015)
UK PAYE and self-assessment tax gap grows to £8.5bn (27 Oct 2015)
Tax credit cuts will leave the low-paid facing a 93 per cent effective tax rate (26 Oct 2015)
EU uses state aid rules against two core eurozone countries - and rescues the taxman in the process (26 Oct 2015)
Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (26 Oct 2015)
EU Lawmakers Set to Vote on Tax Avoidance in Split Europe (26 Oct 2015)
Spotlight on tax rulings spooks fund industry (26 Oct 2015)
EU action signals tax-haven clampdown (26 Oct 2015)
View of Glencore's recent struggles from Zambia rather different than that seen from tax-free Switzerland that company calls home (26 Oct 2015)
Which buildings in Winchester are owned by companies in tax havens? (26 Oct 2015)
Carl Icahn to Spend $150 Million Lobbying for Corporate Tax Reform (26 Oct 2015)
UK Tampon tax could be wiped out if MPs have their way (26 Oct 2015)
Companies face investor push to lower taxes (26 Oct 2015)
Stashing Your Art in a Tax Haven Can Be Dicey (26 Oct 2015)
Slovenia: Tax havens become less attractive (26 Oct 2015)
UK Tax gap: Fraud problem six times worse than avoidance (26 Oct 2015)
Extracting minerals, extracting wealth: how Zambia is losing $3 billion a year from corporate tax dodging (23 Oct 2015)
£34BILLION in UK tax went uncollected for the second year as evasion rose by 7% (23 Oct 2015)
UK Criminal tax evasion rises 11% to £5.1bn but total level of unpaid tax owed to HMRC falls (23 Oct 2015)
EU may open more tax state aid cases, says commissioner (23 Oct 2015)
UK Treasury proposes tighter tax rules on interest and patents (23 Oct 2015)
UK Government Consultation Document - Tax deductibility of corporate interest expense (23 Oct 2015)
UK Government Consultation Document - Patent Box: substantial activities (23 Oct 2015)
Companies urged to help shape UK's approach to interest tax deductibility reform (23 Oct 2015)
Tax Collectors Are Going After Netflix, Airbnb, and Burning Man (23 Oct 2015)
Myanmar elite 'profits from $31bn jade trade' (23 Oct 2015)
Who controls Myanmar's jade industry? (23 Oct 2015)
Jersey to introduce 'light touch' Bitcoin regulation (23 Oct 2015)
HSBC, Barclays and RBS in $1.2bn settlement over currency-rigging lawsuit (23 Oct 2015)
Real estate sector troubled by tax avoidance measures (23 Oct 2015)
Sugar tax will not change diets, says Cadbury chief (23 Oct 2015)
Pressure grows to exempt Alderney from tax rises (23 Oct 2015)
Just 11 people sign petition to axe '62pc' income tax rate (23 Oct 2015)
The EU Gets It Wrong on Corporate Taxes (23 Oct 2015)
Michael Meacher: a note of appreciation (22 Oct 2015)
HMRC’s tax gap: a stuck record that defies economic logic (22 Oct 2015)
The European Commission attempts to outlaw sweetheart tax deals (22 Oct 2015)
After Blow to Europe Tax Havens, Some Promise More Staying Power (22 Oct 2015)
The Guardian view on EU taxes: transnational problems need transnational answers (22 Oct 2015)
How Uber plays the tax shell game (22 Oct 2015)
Inside Swiss Banks' Tax-Cheating Machinery (22 Oct 2015)
These are the secret tricks Swiss banks used to hide American money (22 Oct 2015)
Bitcoin currency exchange not liable for VAT taxes: top EU court (22 Oct 2015)
Dismissal of Greece's Top Tax-Collection Official Draws Criticism (22 Oct 2015)
Lagos seals six companies for tax evasion (22 Oct 2015)
Revealed: 'Sugar tax report' which was suppressed by UK Government (22 Oct 2015)
UK tax gap falls to 6.4% or £34bn (22 Oct 2015)
Travelers CEO says US tax policy sends insurers offshore (22 Oct 2015)
David Copperfield Sues Accountant Over Taxes (22 Oct 2015)
Brazil gives SBM ultimatum in $250 mln bribery settlement (22 Oct 2015)
Jamie Oliver 'expects kicking' over sugar tax (22 Oct 2015)
Sugar tax, fat fines and gold coins: new ways cities are tackling obesity (22 Oct 2015)
Small businesses at risk in tax avoidance clampdown (22 Oct 2015)
European Commission determines state sponsored tax avoidance schemes illegal (21 Oct 2015)
Tax competition isn’t competition at all: it’s cheating (21 Oct 2015)
Who’s Got the Inside Track at the Canada Revenue Agency? The Answer is Disturbing (21 Oct 2015)
The very obvious moral bankruptcy at the core of UK non-dom policy (21 Oct 2015)
Starbucks and Fiat sweetheart tax deals with EU nations ruled unlawful (21 Oct 2015)
EU Commission decides selective tax advantages for Fiat in Luxembourg and Starbucks in the Netherlands are illegal under EU state aid rules (21 Oct 2015)
Statement by Commissioner Vestager on Commission state aid decisions regarding illegal tax advantages granted by Luxembourg (Fiat) and the Netherlands (Starbucks) and on the optical disk drives cartel (21 Oct 2015)
EU rules Starbucks 'sweetheart' tax deals are illegal state subsidies (21 Oct 2015)
UK North Sea tax revenues plummet to negative for the first time in sector's history (21 Oct 2015)
James Glyn could lose £5.5m tax break over UK dinner parties (21 Oct 2015)
Money Laundering: How foreign buyers have bought £100bn of London propoerty (21 Oct 2015)
A Top Boss of Japan's Notorious Yakuza Cartel May Face Capone-esque Tax Evasion Charge (21 Oct 2015)
Macau Billionaire Indicted Over Three-Year UN Bribery Scheme (21 Oct 2015)
Efforts to rid extractive industries of corruption inch forward (21 Oct 2015)
Can Nigeria's president defeat oil industry corruption? (21 Oct 2015)
Will civil society shake up the world of tax treaties? (20 Oct 2015)
How to lose $4billion (20 Oct 2015)
Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler's tax avoidance deals to be ruled illegal (20 Oct 2015)
EU rulings on Fiat and Starbucks could lead to billions in back taxes (20 Oct 2015)
Back payments are only the beginning; Europe needs to work together to stamp put tax avoidance (20 Oct 2015)
Uber pays £22000 tax on £866000 UK profit (20 Oct 2015)
Citigroup Accused of Improperly Avoiding $800 Million in New York State Taxes (20 Oct 2015)
Can Stopping ‘Tax Dodging’ by Multinational Enterprises Close the Gap in Development Finance? (20 Oct 2015)
Future Fund confirms Cayman Islands use (20 Oct 2015)
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank Admits to Sanctions Violations, Agrees to Forfeit $312 Million (20 Oct 2015)
'Tax-havens' routing 60pc of global trade (20 Oct 2015)
Sevan agent may have hidden $40m in a tax haven (20 Oct 2015)
Ireland is now a 'pariah state' over tax, says Corbyn insider (19 Oct 2015)
Tax avoidance, a global scourge (19 Oct 2015)
CBI urges firms to be upfront with public on their tax affairs (19 Oct 2015)
Dutch Royal Family should pay taxes says Labour Party (19 Oct 2015)
Execs Get 10 Years Prison Over Company Taxes? Yes, Here's How (19 Oct 2015)
Governments for Sale: David Cameron and the Arab Sheiks' web of influence that infiltrated Britain (19 Oct 2015)
Israel Will Enforce Tax Hike on One of Its Largest Companies (19 Oct 2015)
US companies don't pay what they're supposed to in taxes (19 Oct 2015)
HMRC u-turn on secured loan arrangements for non doms (19 Oct 2015)
Wal-Mart Bribery Probe Finds Few Signs of Major Misconduct in Mexico (19 Oct 2015)
Wal-Mart paid millions of dollars in bribes in India (19 Oct 2015)
Hidden £5bn tax raid to hit six million UK workers from next April (19 Oct 2015)
Class Wars: Top accounting body: 'buy-to-let tax is unfair, unreasonable, unworkable' (19 Oct 2015)
As tax havens disappear, global revenue wars begin (19 Oct 2015)
October 17, 1931: Al Capone Is Convicted of Income Tax Evasion (19 Oct 2015)
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #70 (16 Oct 2015)
UK banks at high risk of exposure to laundered money, says report (16 Oct 2015)
ONE in every six homes sold in Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea over the last three years for which data is available was bought by a company in an offshore tax haven (16 Oct 2015)
US Justice Department Announces BBVA Suiza S.A. Reaches Resolution under Swiss Bank Program (16 Oct 2015)
Mauritius eyes Africa as pressure mounts on offshore business (16 Oct 2015)
In Norway, Everyone’s Income Is Public—and So Is Tax Paid (16 Oct 2015)
FRC responds to HMRC consultation - Improving Large Business Tax Compliance (16 Oct 2015)
US IRS Collecting $8 Billion from Offshore Tax Compliance Push (16 Oct 2015)
Corporate Welfare: UK Taxpayers could be asked to stump up another £15bn for the building of Britain's newest power station (16 Oct 2015)
Lionel Messi could quit Barcelona because of the Spanish tax authorities (16 Oct 2015)
Honduras seizes assets of conglomerate in money laundering case (16 Oct 2015)
Introducing Finance Uncovered (15 Oct 2015)
Starbucks, Fiat Decisions Expected in First Wave of EU Tax Cases (15 Oct 2015)
How much money do world's most powerful companies hide in tax havens (15 Oct 2015)
Wilderness Safaris' secretive tax havens (15 Oct 2015)
Jump in offshore transactions involving Cayman (15 Oct 2015)
Greek shipping industry faces threat of higher taxes (15 Oct 2015)
Australia: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attacked over Cayman Island tax haven investments (15 Oct 2015)
UK Gov't: we have no 'secret plan' for pensions tax relief (15 Oct 2015)
Revolving Doors: Former Treasury minister Hoban joins PwC (15 Oct 2015)
Soma Oil & Gas lobbies UK for help in Somalia despite Serious Fraud Office inquiry (15 Oct 2015)
Matthew Freud: 'I paid 684 times more tax than Facebook' (15 Oct 2015)
The hidden truth of banks enabling corruption and the devastating human cost (15 Oct 2015)
Grayson Claims He's Not Being Paid Through Controversial Hedge Fund He Manages (15 Oct 2015)
UK Government accused of covering up negative impact of tax credit cuts (15 Oct 2015)
Commerzbank agrees with prosecutors on fine for tax evasion (14 Oct 2015)
10000 UK uy-to-let investors confess to £50m of unpaid tax (14 Oct 2015)
Ireland, Accused of Giving Tax Breaks to Multinationals, Plans an Even Lower Rate (14 Oct 2015)
Ireland slashes corporation tax to just 6.25pc - but there's a catch (14 Oct 2015)
More signs Vestager close on Apple tax case? (14 Oct 2015)
Mandatory exchange of tax rulings proposal: a "missed opportunity” say MEPs (14 Oct 2015)
Taxation of non-doms: three new UK measures (14 Oct 2015)
HSBC whistleblower Falciani fails to appear at Swiss trial (14 Oct 2015)
Ex-HSBC employee in no-show at Swiss tax trial (14 Oct 2015)
Offshore tax evasion plans unfair, says the pinstripe mafia (14 Oct 2015)
What will BEPS fix, and who will gain? (13 Oct 2015)
BEPS: Oxfam calls for a second generation of corporate tax reforms (13 Oct 2015)
What’s wrong with Facebook UK’s accounts and what reforms are now needed? (13 Oct 2015)
Half of world's wealth now in hands of 1% of population – report (13 Oct 2015)
Report: AstraZeneca funnels billions into Dutch tax-avoidance scheme (13 Oct 2015)
Now the Tories are allowing big business to design their own tax loopholes (13 Oct 2015)
Pfizer's CEO Faces The Drug Pricing Firestorm (13 Oct 2015)
Tax reforms are small beer when big firms are denying poor countries billions (13 Oct 2015)
Lawyers attack offshore tax evasion plans (13 Oct 2015)
Ireland, Accused of Giving Tax Breaks to Multinationals, Plans an Even Lower Rate (13 Oct 2015)
Kids Company accused of tax avoidance scheme (13 Oct 2015)
Facebook will be scrutinised by MPs over corporation tax (13 Oct 2015)
Companies prepare for BEPS with mock runs to fix potential tax problems (13 Oct 2015)
Governments for Sale: The Funding of the 2016 US Presidential Election: America's 158 Billionaire “Families” (13 Oct 2015)
Just 158 families contribute $176 million in first phase of US presidential campaign (13 Oct 2015)
Trump has profited from companies that stash cash abroad (13 Oct 2015)
Reader's view: Equal rights don't extend to tax havens (13 Oct 2015)
Seychelles: the ex-billionaire and the captured state (12 Oct 2015)
Finance Uncovered: how Africa’s biggest cell phone firm shifts billions offshore (12 Oct 2015)
The real questions we should ask about Facebook and tax (12 Oct 2015)
Facebook paid £4327 corporation tax despite £35m staff bonuses (12 Oct 2015)
Kingfisher allegedly diverted portion of loans to tax havens (12 Oct 2015)
Inequality is the great concern of our age. So why do we tolerate rapacious, unjust tax havens? (12 Oct 2015)
ATO puts tax audit outsourcing plan on hold (12 Oct 2015)
The world still needs a way to stop hot money scalding us all (12 Oct 2015)
Banks give up US expats' data in tax evasion crackdown (12 Oct 2015)
Leading economies agree plan to fight corporate tax avoidance (12 Oct 2015)
G-20 Officials Aim at Multinational Tax Avoidance (12 Oct 2015)
G-20 Endorse Tax Avoidance Curbs, Schaeuble Urges Further Steps (12 Oct 2015)
European fund groups warn tax rules could harm economy (12 Oct 2015)
Tax transparency: Keeping the public in the dark? (12 Oct 2015)
The hidden wealth of tax havens (12 Oct 2015)
Latest draft of the EU Shareholder Rights Directive (12 Oct 2015)
Germany, EU deny report on European solidarity tax (12 Oct 2015)
Berlin protest against TTIP trade deal draws thousands (12 Oct 2015)
Wayne Sleep: 'I got married to avoid paying inheritance tax' (12 Oct 2015)
UK Tobacco tax increase urged by parliamentary group (12 Oct 2015)
Tech companies like Facebook not above the law, says Max Schrems (12 Oct 2015)
Taxes must be paid, says George Osborne, as he backs crackdown on tax havens (12 Oct 2015)
Supply Chain Corruption: Procurement's Dirty Secret (12 Oct 2015)
Russian property secrecy criticised amid corruption fears (12 Oct 2015)
Volkswagen's Emissiongate May Include Tax Crimes (12 Oct 2015)
Two Charged With Laundering Money for Hezbollah (12 Oct 2015)
Ex-Arrow Trucking CEO sentenced for fraud, tax evasion (12 Oct 2015)
Support Antoine Deltour! (9 Oct 2015)
Finance Uncovered: how Africa’s biggest cell phone firm shifts billions offshore (9 Oct 2015)
Australia's New Leader Dusts Off a Tax Plan Snubbed 10 Years Ago (9 Oct 2015)
Why do governments allow Apple to use transfer pricing to tax havens to evade billions in taxes? (9 Oct 2015)
Stiglitz: How tax avoidance fuels inequality (9 Oct 2015)
UBS banker charged in tax evasion probe (9 Oct 2015)
CRA 'special adviser' joined industry lobby group amid probe of KPMG (9 Oct 2015)
Five reasons to think twice about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (9 Oct 2015)
What happens when you can search 30 million words of oil contracts? (9 Oct 205)
Bank of England to probe George Osborne's new bank tax (9 Oct 2015)
IMF: China slump and tax avoidance to dominate Peru talks (9 Oct 2015)
Vodafone wins transfer pricing battle against IT department (9 Oct 2015)
Mauritius now unsafe parking place for black money (9 Oct 2015)
Computer Scientists Wield Artificial Intelligence to Battle Tax Evasion (9 Oct 2015)
OECD corporate tax proposals fall flat (8 Oct 2015)
OECD's new tax proposals won't stop companies shifting profits to tax havens (8 Oct 2015)
How 1/8th of Moldova’s GDP vanished, via a Scottish council flat (8 Oct 2015)
So: what kinds of corporate tax schemes won’t BEPS stop? (8 Oct 2015)
Hillary Clinton to Propose High-Frequency Trading Tax, Volcker Rule Changes (8 Oct 2015)
Ex-UBS Banker Weil Faces French Charges of Aiding Tax Evasion (8 Oct 2015)
250 years ago today: “No taxation without representation!” (8 Oct 2015)
The Economist Verdict on OECD BEPS: New rules, same old paradigm - A plan to curb multinationals’ tax avoidance is an opportunity missed (8 Oct 2015)
Tax transparency: Keeping the public in the dark? (8 Oct 2015)
Still slipping the net – Europe’s corporate-tax havens say they are reforming. Up to a point (8 Oct 015)
Jeannot Krecke report: Juncker warned about Luxembourg tax deals in 1997 (8 Oct 2015)
Tory tax credit cuts will put 200000 children into poverty in 2016, study finds (8 Oct 2015)
Ben Carson: I Want To Turn The U.S. Into A Tax Haven (8 Oct 2015)
Messi to stand trial for tax fraud (8 Oct 2015)
Tax work boosts revenues at mid-market accountant BDO (8 Oct 2015)
Vodafone wins transfer pricing tax dispute case (8 Oct 2015)
US charges Honduran soccer club chief with laundering drug money (8 Oct 2015)
Colorado corporations dodge US taxes through offshore accounts, according to new report (8 Oct 2015)
The Joy of Tax is no laughing matter, David Cameron (7 Oct 2015)
Apple is still No. 1 at avoiding US taxes (7 Oct 2015)
Australia widens legislation to target more companies for tax avoidance (7 Oct 2015)
Report Calls Bermuda “Notorious” Tax Haven (7 Oct 2015)
Lawyers, accountants to cash in on TPP (7 Oct 2015)
Offshore trusts escape non-dom tax crackdown (7 Oct 2015)
Nigeria widens oil corruption probe (7 Oct 2015)
Press release: OECD’s BEPS proposals will not be the end of tax avoidance by multinationals (6 Oct 2015)
OECD tweaks to tax rules for multinational corporations fall short on transparency, inclusivity (6 Oct 2015)
An assessment of the G20/ OECD BEPS outcomes: Failing to reach its objectives (6 Oct 2015)
Overall Evaluation of the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project (6 Oct 2015)
HMRC's penalty regime for country-by-country reporting encourages non-compliance (6 Oct 2015)
Offshore Shell Games 2015 (6 Oct 2015)
The five US firms holding the most cash in tax havens (6 Oct 2015)
Report: Fortune 500 reliant on tax havens (6 Oct 2015)
Big US firms hold $2.1 trillion overseas to avoid taxes: study (6 Oct 2015)
EU states to exchange sweetheart tax deals information (6 Oct 2015)
Sweetheart tax deals targeted as EU boosts information exchange (6 Oct 2015)
Tax transparency: Commission welcomes agreement reached by Member States (6 Oct 2015)
Swiss Asset Management Firm Finacor SA Reaches Resolution with US Justice Department (6 Oct 2015)
Up to £200m due after HMRC defeats avoidance scheme in Tribunal (6 Oct 2015)
Isle of Man Tax Avoidance Scheme Defeated in Robert Huitson v revenue and customs [2015] UKFTT 448 (TC) (03 September 2015) (6 Oct 2015)
Bristol-Myers to pay SEC $14m to settle China bribery claim (6 Oct 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Bristol-Myers Squibb With FCPA Violations (6 Oct 2015)
FCA introduces new rules to boost financial whistleblowing (6 Oct 2015)
Adviser attacked over £262m tax avoidance scheme as court battle begins 6 Oct 2015)
Elvis and a Big Hunk o' Tax Breaks (6 Oct 2015)
Spain drops tax charges against Messi (6 Oct 2015)
OECD unveils corporate tax avoidance proposals (6 Oct 2015)
G20 to discuss tax avoidance rules, but critics dubious (6 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS: A crackdown on corporate tax dodgers or a let-off for big companies? (6 Oct 2015)
OECD tax reforms: five key points (6 Oct 2015)
Belize and the curious tale of the British lord (5 Oct 2015)
That progressive transaction tax to limit consumption (5 Oct 2015)
UK could legislate to force tax havens to reveal offshore ownership, says Pickles (5 Oct 2015)
How AstraZeneca avoids paying UK corporation tax (5 Oct 2015)
Ashcroft banks at centre of major US tax evasion probe (5 Oct 2015)
Lord Ashcroft: Author of controversial biography on David Cameron embroiled in tax avoidance investigation (5 Oct 2014)
From slavers to accountants: looters in Africa (5 Oct 2015)
SEC, Justice Department Investigate Corruption Allegations at Kinross Gold (5 Oct 2015)
Unfriendly Tax-Friendly Funds (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS Press Release: Reforms to the international tax system for curbing avoidance by multinational enterprises (5 Oct 2015)
OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project 2015 Final Reports: Executive Summaries (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 1 - Addressing the Tax Challenges of the Digital Economy (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 2 - Neutralising the Effects of Hybrid Mismatch Arrangements (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 3 - Designing Effective Controlled Foreign Company Rules (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 4- Limiting Base Erosion Involving Interest Deductions and Other Financial Payments (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 5 - Countering Harmful Tax Practices More Effectively, Taking into Account Transparency and Substance (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 6 - Preventing the Granting of Treaty Benefits in Inappropriate Circumstances (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 7 - Preventing the Artificial Avoidance of Permanent Establishment Status (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 8-10 Guidance on Transfer Pricing Aspects of Intangibles (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 11 - Measuring and Monitoring BEPS (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 12 - Mandatory Disclosure Rules (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 13 - Guidance on Transfer Pricing Documentation and Country-by-Country Reporting (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 14 - Making Dispute Resolution Mechanisms More Effective (5 Oct 2015)
OECD BEPS 2015 Final Report: Action 15 - Developing a Multilateral Instrument to Modify Bilateral Tax Treaties (5 Oct 2015)
High noon for the multinational taxdodgers? Corporate giants like Google and Apple face biggest global tax shake-up in decades (5 Oct 2015)
Ireland tweaks tax regime to divert avoidance criticism (5 Oct 2015)
Osborne to net billions in huge crackdown on multinational tax avoidance (5 Oct 2015)
Tax Court Decision in Altera Overturns Important Transfer Pricing Regulations (5 Oct 2015)
Brazil court allows Lula questioning in Petrobras corruption case (5 Oct 2015)
Drug cartel money-laundering indictment is first major effort against hawala tactics (5 Oct 2015)
Puerto Rico Development Bank Goes to Court for $400 Million in Taxes (5 Oct 2015)
Inside the home of the second richest man in the world (5 Oct 2015)
Dear Ambassador, the Bahamas is most definitely a tax haven (2 Oct 2015)
World Bank president: corporate tax dodging ‘a form of corruption’ (2 Oct 2015)
Ashcroft, Belize Banks and Questions About U.S. Tax Evaders (2 Oct 2015)
KPMG tax 'sham' used by at least 25 wealthy Canadians, document says (2 Oct 2015)
£300 million of Brighton and Hove property owned by tax haven firms (2 Oct 2015)
UK residential property stamp duty revenue hits record high (2 Oct 2015)
Court leaves Swedish nuclear tax unchanged (2 Oct 2015)
India's offshore tax amnesty recovers just $575 mln - government (2 Oct 2015)
Tax avoidance by corporations is out of control; the UN must step in (1 Oct 2015)
Jersey’s economic wasteland enjoys a one-off dead-cat bounce (1 Oct 2015)
Osborne’s crack down on non-doms is a sham (1 Oct 2015)
David Cameron says some British overseas territories and crown dependencies not doing to tackle tax evasion (1 Oct 2015)
McDonald's accused of tax evasion in Italy (1 Oct 2015)
Former Chief Financial Officer of Siemens Argentina Pleads Guilty to Role in Multimillion Dollar Foreign Bribery Scheme (1 Oct 2015)
US Tax Court Examines Residual Value Insurance Policies (1 Oct 2015)
George Osborne's non-doms tax plan excludes offshore trusts (1 Oct 2015)
Offshore trusts escape UK non-dom tax crackdown (1 Oct 2015)
Co-Founder of OXYwater Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering (1 Oct 2015)
Sunlight On Tax Havens (1 Oct 2015)
There is money in tax avoidance: EY break £2bn fee income barrier with strong tax growth (1 Oct 2015)
New buy-to-let deal escapes George Osborne's landlord tax (1 Oct 2015)

SEPTEMBER 2015

The Tax Justice Network Podcast, September 2015 (30 Sep 2015)
Christian-Aid Report: Viewing #SwissLeaks through a different lens (30 Sep 2015)
EU may stop corporate tax regimes favouring debt over equity - officials (30 Sep 2015)
Troika Tackling Ancient Greek Ritual of Tax Avoidance (30 Sep 2015)
Tax avoidance by corporations is out out control. The United Nations must step in (30 Sep 2015)
C&AG report reveals tax evasion in contractor companies (30 Sep 2015)
Unlicensed blood drug GcMAF still for sale in Guernsey (30 Sep 2015)
U.S.-based corporations avoid taxes (30 Sep 2015)
EU Says Probe Still Open on Italy's Existing Deferred Tax Assets (30 Sep 2015)
EU regulators to scrap Spanish bank tax credit probe - EU official (30 Sep 2015)
Channel Islands tax relief to be abolished from EU statute books (30 Sep 2015)
Danish tax authority cleans up after scandals (30 Sep 2015)
Cities and regions express their views on the sharing economy, the Trade in Services Agreement and a fair corporate taxes (30 Sep 2015)
Eight radical taxes that have been floated (30 Sep 2015)
Judge tells SDT to review sanctions in tax avoidance case (30 Sep 2015)
South Africa's anti-corruption march hit by government dirty tricks (30 Sep 2015)
Pope Francis on inequality, tax evasion and corruption (29 Sep 2015)
How ‘competitive’ tax and incentive policies hurt small U.S. businesses (29 Sep 2015)
How We're Victimized by Corporate State Tax Avoidance (29 Sep 2015)
Netherlands request UBS account data (29 Sep 2015)
Sunlight is the best way to disinfect corporate tax havens (29 Sep 2015)
US$7.6tn hidden in tax havens - almost half annual US GDP (29 Sep 2015)
Greek Shipowners Prepare to Weigh Anchor on Prospect of Higher Taxes (29 Sep 2015)
Donald Trump unveils tax plan with cuts for poorest and richest Americans (29 Sep 2015)
Barcelona's Javier Mascherano charged with tax fraud by Spanish authorities (29 Sep 2015)
SEC Charges UBS Puerto Rico and Two Individuals in Actions Relating to Former Broker’s Fraud: UBSPR Reaches $34 Million Settlement With SEC, FINRA (29 Sep 2015)
Romania: 2 senior politicians indicted for money laundering (29 Sep 2015)
The Greatest Invention: Tax and the Campaign for a Just Society (28 Sep 2015)
German prosecutors raid Maple Bank in tax case (28 Sep 2015)
FIFA Corruption: Michel Platini dropped FIFA presidency challenge 'after receiving £1.3million payment from Sepp Blatter' (28 Sep 2015)
Crunchtime for Global Tax-Avoidance Push (28 Sep 2015)
Labour 'will make Google, Starbucks and Amazon pay fair tax share' (28 Sep 2015)
Iran earns more from tax than oil for first time in almost 50 years (28 Sep 2015)
Bill Gates sues oil giant Petrobras and PwC over corruption scandal (28 Sep 2015)
Trump Plan Cuts Taxes for Millions (28 Sep 2015)
Rolls-Royce faces second investigation in Brazil corruption scandal (28 Sep 2015)
Neymar has £31.3m of assets frozen by court over alleged tax evasion (28 Sep 2015)
Labour conference: John McDonnell to push for Robin Hood tax (28 Sep 2015)
Silver Wheaton faces potential C$353m CRA tax bill for offshore revenue (28 Sep 2015)
Still Too Many Tax Breaks For Fossil Fuels, Says OECD (28 Sep 2015)
Russian Oil Producers Head for Tax Showdown Amid Output Warnings (28 Sep 2015)
Switzerland: still the home of secret banking (25 Sep 2015)
Oxford’s tax gap deniers (25 Sep 2015)
Troubling times for low-tax tradition in Switzerland's Zug (25 Sep 2015)
No concern for the poor, but CBI urges restraint in crackdown on tax dodging by multinationals (25 Sep 2015)
Tax Havens Are Turning The U.S. Into An Unequal Aristocracy (25 Sep 2015)
Experts suspect tax avoidance by Uber Australia (25 Sep 2015)
Fifa: Sepp Blatter faces criminal investigation (25 Sep 2015)
FIFA Prepares Reforms as U.S. Threatens More Corruption Arrests (25 Sep 2015)
The emerging threat of trade-based money laundering in trade finance (25 Sep 2015)
Hungary Joins Call For Greater EU Cooperation On Tax Avoidance (25 Sep 2015)
Spain Targets Another Soccer Star On Tax Evasion Charges (25 Sep 2015)
Corporate prosecutions: individual liability is essential (25 Sep 2015)
U.S. Signs Tax Pacts with U.K. and Australia (25 Sep 2015)
Transocean Mentioned in Petrobras Carwash Corruption Probe (25 Sep 2015)
Davidson estate sues Deloitte Tax over $2.7B IRS bill (25 Sep 2015)
Police raid 36 taxi firms across Scotland in probe into tax evasion (25 Sep 2015)
Reading Office Furniture £1m tax fraud businessman jailed (25 Sep 2015)
Switzerland 'wrong' to cooperate on stolen bank data (25 Sep 2015)
Europe's shadow economy costs €454bn in 'lost' taxes (24 Sep 2015)
Inside the tax havens that are helping the 1 percent steal trillions of dollars (24 Sep 2015)
Liberty Reserve founder must face $6 bln laundering case in US (24 Sep 2015)
David Cameron knew about my non-dom status, Lord Ashcroft claims (24 Sep 2015)
Tax Evasion's Bite, From the Ancient World to Modern Days (24 Sep 2015)
India: Outed in lists, HSBC account holders lining up to declare (24 Sep 2015)
India to amend tax law retrospectively to give relief to foreign firms (24 Sep 2015)
Ex-exec to face charges for 'blood diamond' tax fraud (24 Sep 2015)
Singapore Urges Need For Tax Competition After BEPS (24 Sep 2015)
OECD Report: Improving Co-operation between Tax and Anti-Money Laundering Authorities: Access by tax administrations to information held by financial intelligence units for criminal and civil purposes (24 Sep 2015)
Ernst & Young Merges in Tax Law Firm Burt, Staples & Maner (24 Sep 2015)
Balearic islands to charge tourists €2 'eco-tax' (24 Sep 2015)
The march of the international tax treaty arbitrators (23 Sep 2015)
Why a ‘competitive’ economy means less competition (23 Sep 2015)
Can Corbynomics guru Richard Murphy fix Britain? (23 Sep 2015)
CCCTB: Eurozone heavyweights resume tax offensive on multinational companies (23 Sep 2015)
Corporate taxation system has reached its limits, say ministers and MEPs (23 Sep 2015)
Finance ministers call for minimum EU tax rate (23 Sep 2015)
Liberal US Senators Urge Treasury to Limit Carried Interest Tax Break (23 Sep 2015)
India likely to raise tax evasion issue at UN meet (23 Sep 2015)
BHP Billiton finance chief denies Singapore tax-dodge deal (23 Sep 2015)
Changing Skyline: It's what makes Subaru a tax dodge (23 Sep 2015)
Fourteen arrested in UK landfill tax fraud raids (23 Sep 2015)
Need Land Value Tax: English farmland prices double in five years (23 Sep 2013)
"Tax haven" list could damage reputation of Caribbean countries (23 Sep 2015)
BEPS for beginners - Preparing to comply (23 Sep 2015)
Irish National Extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom for Trafficking of Rhinoceros Horns (23 Sep 2015)
Cameron faces fresh questions over knowledge of Ashcroft tax status (22 Sep 2015)
ASIC: Avestra 'diverted cash to tax haven' (22 Sep 2015)
Curbs Don't Stop Tax-Driven Mergers (22 Sep 2015)
Canada Cabinet ministers met publicly with KPMG while firm's tax 'sham' under CRA probe (22 Sep 2015)
South Korea: '30% of foreign investors from tax havens' (22 Sep 2015)
Former Brazil Workers' Party treasurer sentenced for corruption (22 Sep 2015)
US IRS Delays FATCA To Help Banks, But Offshore Account Disclosures Continue (22 Sep 2015)
UK deficit rises steeply after surprise fall in tax receipts (22 Sep 2015)
Tax Evasion Case Against SpiceJet Deferred (22 Sep 2015)
Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano investigated for alleged tax fraud (22 Sep 2015)
Australia's major banks pull plug on bitcoin companies (22 Sep 2015)
Fifa corruption: Jack Warner extradition proceedings approved (22 Sep 2015)
The question the tax gap deniers must answer (21 Sep 2015)
Country by country reporting: lessons from Finland (21 Sep 2015)
If You See a Little Piketty in This Tax-Haven Book, That's Fine (21 Sep 2015)
Coca-Cola hit with $3.3bn bill for back taxes (21 Sep 2015)
Coca-Cola Owes $3.3 Billion in Taxes Over Transfer Pricing (21 Sep 2015)
Scottish land reform - don't forget the tax havens! (21 Sep 2015)
'MegaBrew' eyes move to the UK to escape tax bill (21 Sep 2015)
Vodafone talks with Liberty Global hit trouble over tax (21 Sep 2015)
David Cameron knew about my non-dom status, Lord Ashcroft claims (21 Sep 2015)
UK Tax probes take more than year to conclude, finds law firm (21 Sep 2015)
John McDonnell Says UK Tax Avoidance And Corporation Tax Cuts Are 'Appalling' (21 Sep 2015)
The Fiction of Total Tax Contribution: Banks pay £31bn in tax as their fortunes recover (21 Sep 2015)
'Green taxes stoke up UK steel plant jobs crisis' (21 Sep 2015)
JPMorgan CEO is OK with paying higher taxes (21 Sep 2015)
Swedish Budget Seen `Out of Whack' as Taxes Set to Increase (21 Sep 2015)
Juncker on CCCTB: The country where a company generates its profits must also be the country of taxation (21 Sep 2015)
Juncker backs CCCTB plan (21 Sep 2015)
US Treasury to Delay Enforcing Part of Tax Law That Curbs Offshore Tax Evasion (21 Sep 2015)
Fraud, fools, and financial crises (21 Sep 2015)
Brazil bans corporations from political donations amid corruption scandal (21 Sep 2015)
Final warning for UK contractors to settle disputed tax (21 Sep 2015)
Why Corbynomics could actually be good for business (18 Sep 2015)
OECD: too much finance hurts growth — more on latest paper supporting Finance Curse thesis (18 Sep 2015)
Vast majority believe tax avoidance by multinationals to be morally wrong (18 Sep 2015)
Chevron’s tax schemes: piping profits out of Australia? (18 Sep 2015)
EU's Vestager says still too early to open new tax investigations (18 Sep 2015)
Apple Inc., Amazon See Mounting Tax Investigations In European Union (18 Sep 2015)
Is Vestager close to pulling Apple tax trigger? (18 Sep 2015)
U.K.'s Corbyn Says Labour to Back EU Membership, Transaction Tax (18 Sep 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Two Banks Reach Resolutions under Swiss Bank Program (18 Sep 2015)
Swiss bank La Roche settles with US authorities over tax offenses (18 Sep 2015)
US Court Authorizes IRS to Issue Summonses to Discover U.S. Taxpayers with Offshore Bank Accounts at Belize Bank International Limited and Belize Bank Limited (18 Sep 2015)
US tax-evasion probe expands to Belize (18 Sep 2015)
US IRS Hunts Belize Accounts, Issues John Doe Summons To Citibank, BofA (18 Sep 2015)
Pensioners pay 11% of total UK income tax revenues (18 Sep 2015)
Why dirty money still plagues Switzerland (18 Sep 2015)
KPMG tax avoidance and privatization schemes costly for public (18 Sep 2015)
Can EU countries still afford their welfare states? (18 Sep 2015)
Jean-Claude Juncker denies all involvement in LuxLeaks tax system (18 Sep 2015)
Juncker denies role in tax scams (18 Sep 2015)
Netherlands Confirms CbC Reporting From 2016 (18 Sep 2015)
Corporate tax evasion is wrong, even if legal - survey (18 Sep 2015)
CIoT: UK Tax tribunal fees would impede access to justice (18 Sep 2015)
Puerto Rico Brings First-Ever Value-Added Tax To The US (18 Sep 2015)
CEO: American dream has relocated to Bermuda (18 Sep 2015)
The G20/OECD BEPS Project on corporate tax: a scorecard (17 Sep 2015)
US Congress Is Working to Revive Rules That Make Corporate Tax Avoidance Easier (17 Sep 2015)
Pope Francis Calls for Ending Tax-Exempt Status of Churches That Don't Help the Needy (17 Sep 2015)
Pope tells religious orders they should lose their tax breaks if they refuse to take in migrants and are more interested in making money than helping the needy (17 Sep 2015)
Allegations surround Wilson Security's link to HK bribes scandal and tax haven (17 Sep 2015)
Rigorous evaluations show giving poor people cash is a very effective policy. But polls show poor Tanzanians would rather have government services (17 Sep 2015)
Las Vegas gamblers lost $1.3 billion in a year playing this casino game you've never heard of (17 Sep 2015)
C20: new civil society policy paper on tax justice (16 Sep 2015)
Report: Illicit Financial Flows Outpace Foreign Aid and Investment (16 Sep 2015)
Margaret Hodge to lead group focusing on 'responsible' tax (16 Sep 2015)
AustraliaTax avoidance crackdown: 1000 multinationals face tax squeeze under new rules (16 Sep 2015)
Why combating multinational tax avoidance should be a priority (16 Sep 2015)
President Juncker must endorse public scrutiny of multinational tax payments (16 Sep 2015))
Half of UK cash in black market or overseas, says Bank (16 Sep 2015)
Half of UK banknotes used to fund shadow economy (16 Sep 2015)
European Parliament tax investigation: Lobbyists from non-compliant firms to lose access to EU Parliament (16 Sep 2015)
MEPs: Name firms that use tax havens (16 Sep 2015)
Isle of Man Offshore tax product in spotlight (16 Sep 2015)
'Canada's most-wanted bank robber' arrested in Geneva (16 Sep 2015)
Minister on board of tax haven firm (16 Sep 2015)
Former trader claims Lloyds made him redundant over whistleblowing (16 Sep 2015)
UK Trade unions are being held to tougher standards than businesses or government (15 Sep 2015)
Privatisation: Mis-sale of the century (15 Sep 2015)
Swiss firms avoiding tax on gold, says NGO (15 Sep 2015)
Berlin to push for financial transactions tax to cover all of EU (15 Sep 2015)
EU deal on financial transactions tax 'within reach': Pierre Moscovici (15 Sep 2015)
Italy sees progress on euro zone financial transactions tax (15 Sep 2015)
Why Panama Remains a Money Laundering Haven (15 Sep 2015)
Greece's Tax-Evading Professionals (15 Sep 2015)
Fresh arrests likely in Fifa corruption scandal, says US attorney general (15 Sep 2015)
Britain's help in Fifa corruption case is questioned (15 Sep 2015)
Rosaria: “Curaçao still a tax haven” (15 Sep 2015)
Beckham sister's ex jailed over £2.6m money-laundering (15 Sep 2015)
Life Expectancy in the UK: England's richest people 'live eight years longer than the country's poorest' (15 Sep 2015)
Tax Haven Germany – New TJN Book (14 Sep 2015)
Country by Country Reporting: lobbyists eviscerate OECD project (14 Sep 2015)
Jeremy Corbyn and the economics of the real world (14 Sep 2015)
Russia’s offshore financial nexus, threatening financial stability and security (14 Sep 2015)
EU deal on financial transactions tax 'within reach': Moscovici (14 Sep 2015)
Europe takes aim at 'sweetheart' corp. tax deals (14 Sep 2015)
UK Taxman brings in record £1 billion from avoidance crackdown (14 Sep 2015)
Greens call for stronger recommendations to fight corporate tax avoidance in Europe (14 Sep 2015)
Jeb Bush Would Save $773000 Under His New Tax Plan (14 Sep 2015)
Deutsche Bank's Russia chairman exits, as bank faces bribery probe (14 Sep 2015)
UK R&D tax reliefs claims up by £350m (14 Sep 2015)
Rewards of Tax Avoidance: PwC partners enjoy biggest payouts for five year (14 Sep 2015)
Accountants defend their tax record (14 Sep 2015)
EEF calls on Downing Street to scrap 'complex' energy tax system (14 Sep 2015)
How to Cheat on Taxes in China (14 Sep 2015)
Choosing to leave the U.S. rather than pay taxes (14 Sep 2015)
Tax evader crackdown could reduce offshore banking options for expats (13 Sep 2015)
Comment: Why we need a referendum on the monarchy (11 Sep 2015)
Whistleblowers Antoine Deltour and Stéphanie Gibaud nominated for Sakharov prize (11 Sep 2015)
MEPs approve draft report on corporate tax avoidance (11 Sep 2015)
KPMG tax 'sham' could lead to criminal investigation, experts say (11 Sep 2015)
Valiant Bank AG Reaches Resolution under Justice Department's Swiss Bank Program (11 Sep 2015)
Top 1% Are Biggest Winners in Jeb Bush's Tax Plan (11 Sep 2015)
The City's stranglehold makes Britain look like an oh-so-civilised mafia state (11 Sep 2015)
KPMG Scandal: Canada Greens Would Close Tax Haven Loopholes (11 Sep 2015)
Federal probe of KPMG tax 'sham' stalled in Canada court (11 Sep 2015)
Poor countries worry that developed nations drive tax agenda (11 Sep 2015)
Labour's Corbyn pledges UK windfall tax in 2020, targets RBS (11 Sep 2015)
US outlines new policy for investigating corporate executives (11 Sep 2015)
Another FC Barcelona Star Could Face Tax Evasion Charges Despite Paying Up (11 Sep 2015)
Swiss govt discloses Indore-based firm's name in black money probe (11 Sep 2015)
FSCS reviews claims against advisers over tax avoidance schemes (11 Sep 2015)
FSCS considers 150 tax advice claims after legal go-ahead (11 Sep 2015)
Will Brazil’s “CPMF” financial transactions tax live another day? (10 Sep 2015)
UK Revenue & Customs 'winding down' inquiries into HSBC Swiss tax evaders (10 Sep 2015)
China says Apple unit underpaid $71 million in tax in 2013 (10 Sep 2015)
US Senate Democrats to probe tax rule behind Keurig's Swiss move (10 Sep 2015)
KPMG offshore 'sham' deceived tax authorities, CRA alleges (10 Sep 2015)
Multi-millionaire KPMG Canada clients paid virtually no tax in Isle of Man scheme (10 Sep 2015)
Land owned by companies based in tax havens revealed (10 Sep 2015)
OECD BEPS Project On Track For October (10 Sep 2015)
Breaking BEPS: The New International Tax Diplomacy (10 Sep 2015)
Richest Finns Face Extra Tax as Government Fights Deficits (10 Sep 2015)
$50b lost annually to illicit cash flows in Africa (10 Sep 2015)
How do we fund the refugee crisis? With a Tobin tax (10 Sep 2015)
Corruption Currents: Canadian Banks Aid Chinese Money Laundering (10 Sep 2015)
The New Money-Laundering Sting: Come to the U.S., Get Arrested (10 Sep 2015)
Yahoo's Tax Options: Bad or Worse (10 Sep 2015)
George Osborne's higher minimum wage won't make up for his tax credit cuts, IFS confirms (10 Sep 2015)
Congratulations to Professor Richard Murphy (9 Sep 2015)
Urry: “offshoring and democracy are in direct conflict.” (9 Sep 2015)
The Migration of the Rich (9 Sep 2015)
Taxation of SMEs in OECD and G20 Countries (9 Sep 2015)
Yahoo's Plan for Tax-Free Alibaba Spinoff Faces IRS Setback (9 Sep 2015)
Buffett Supports Trump Stance on Hedge-Fund Manager Taxes (9 Sep 2015)
United Airlines chief executive steps down amid corruption investigation (9 Sep 2015)
Caesars Fined $9.5 Million Over Lax Money-Laundering Controls (9 Sep 2015)
rk couple jailed for money laundering (9 Sep 2015)
Labour throws lifeline to challenger banks in fight against Osborne tax (9 Sep 2015)
EU Urges Italy to Close Tax-Evasion Loophole (9 Sep 2015)
The New Money-Laundering Sting: Come to the U.S., Get Arrested (9 Sep 2015)
UK Bank levy tax take set to raise £12bn (9 Sep 2015)
Guatemala ex-President Otto Perez indicted for corruption (9 Sep 2015)
Microsoft battles US over warrant for drugs case emails (9 Sep 2015)
India Ends a Retroactive Tax Raid (9 Sep 2015)
Tax Administration 2015: Comparative Information on OECD and Other Advanced and Emerging Economies (9 Sep 2015)
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #69 (8 Sep 2015)
Tax exemption may be key to move of Keurig's coffee buying to Switzerland (8 Sep 2015)
Israeli banks named in Australian tax evasion affair (8 Sep 2015)
Is It Time to Tax Harvard’s Endowment (8 Sep 2015)
Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU Member States - 2015 Report: EU countries lost 168 billion euros ($187 billion) in sales-tax revenue in 2013 due to fraud and errors (8 Sep 2015)
Ireland Seen Losing Apple Tax Skirmish, Triggering Legal Battle (8 Sep 2015)
FTSE 100 sets aside almost £1.66bn for tax litigation (8 Sep 2015)
Isle of Man becoming a hub for cryptocurrency start-ups (8 Sep 2015)
Greetings From Bitcoin Island (8 Sep 2015)
Antigua-Barbuda takes protest over tax haven listing to Capitol Hill (8 Sep 2015)
PFI is still crippling our public services (7 Sep 2015)
That review of HMRC is still needed (7 Sep 2015)
Land reform campaigners: Scottish Government must act on land owned in tax havens (7 Sep 2015)
Country by Country Reporting A survey of FTSE100 companies’ views (7 Sep 2015)
European Parliament TAXE Committee Draft Report: on tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect (2015/2066(INI)) (7 Sep 2015)
Big Four accounting firms on the EU radar for their tax avoidance business: European Parliament TAXE Committee Draft Report: on tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect (2015/2066(INI)) (7 Sep 2015)
Secret tax-haven landowners are port protest target (7 Sep 2015)
Ben Carson's 10 Percent Flat Tax is Utterly Implausible (7 Sep 2015)
EU probe of Irish tax break could cost Apple $19 billion (7 Sep 2015)
Big UK companies halve provisions for disputed tax bills (7 Sep 2015)
Britain gained £300billion in tax on North Sea oil - and blew it like a reckless lottery winner says expert (7 Sep 2015)
Glanbia firms pay just €200000 tax on €40m profit (7 Sep 2015)
Strictly Come Dancing's Tess Daly and Vernon Kay at the centre of avoidance probe (7 Sep 2015)
Amazon gets Illinois tax credits despite calls for review (7 Sep 2015)
Trump boasts of $50 million club, but tells tax man it's worth $1.4 million (7 Sep 2015)
Donald Trump Golf Course Seeks to Ease Tax Bite With Lower Valuation (7 Sep 2015)
Gold Coast accountant charged as money laundering inquiry deepens (7 Sep 2015)
UK Civilian police staff are given 999 cars to escape tax (7 Sep 2015)
Blowing the Whistle on Tax Cheats (7 Sep 2015)
Nigeria's president declares bank assets of only £100000 (7 Sep 2015)
SNP commits to halving tax on flights (7 Sep 2015)
Civil society calls on G20 finance ministers to end fossil fuel subsidies (4 Sep 2015)
Selling England by the offshore pound: astonishing new interactive map (4 Sep 2015)
Land Value Taxation (4 Sep 2015)
Fortune 500 Corporations Are Likely Avoiding $600 Billion in Corporate Tax Using Offshore Tax Havens (4 Sep 2015)
Why Tax Havens Will be at the Heart of the Next Financial Crisis (4 Sep 2015)
Channel Islands blacklisted as tax haven in US (4 Sep 2015)
Hedge fund star Patrick Degorce told to pay £8m for role in tax-avoidance scheme (4 Sep 2015)
Guatemala's president quits over corruption allegations (4 Sep 2015)
US Republicans Tap Their Own Tax Mavens for 2016 (4 Sep 2015)
Tax takes 18% bite out of UK pensioner incomes (4 Sep 2015)
Trump seeks 90% tax cut at New York golf club (4 Sep 2015)
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari declares assets (4 Sep 2015)
A tax on the poor: Regulation is keeping remittances unnecessarily expensive (4 Sep 2015)
UK seems to relax pressure on Caymans over company register (3 Sep 2015)
Tax scandal probe hit by setback as EU refuses to hand over documents to MEPs (3 Sep 2015)
Member states stonewall EP tax probe (3 Sep 2015)
HSBC Argentina makes proposal to cenbank amid tax evasion probe (3 Sep 2015)
Argentina demands new local HSBC boss in tax evasion and money laundering row (3 Sep 2015)
Guatemalan judge issues arrest warrant for President Otto Pérez Molina (3 Sep 2015)
Israel Ministry clamps down on lawyers, accountants to halt terror financing (3 Sep 2015)
Nicola Sturgeon signals tax increases for the wealthy (3 Sep 2015)
Hedge fund manager loses tax appeal (3 Sep 2015)
Drax, Infinis Challenge U.K. Move on Tax Status for Renewables (3 Sep 2015)
India's Black Money Chase and Switzerland's New Offer (3 Sep 2015)
Russian Nuclear Energy Official Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (3 Sep 2015)
Playing the shell game can make (or cost) you a fortune (3 Sep 2015)
New report: anticipating tax wars in Southeast Asia (2 Sep 2015)
Banks and Dirty Money: Global Witness report calls for action as global corruption conference kicks off (2 Sep 2015)
As the murk grows, the UK rows back on money laundering checks (2 Sep 2015)
Argentina Tells HSBC to Remove CEO in Tax Evasion Dispute (2 Sep 2015)
Britain's farmland has become a tax haven. Who dares reform it? (2 Sep 2015)
India pulls back from $6.4bn tax raid (2 Sep 2015)
Etsy's B Corp Status Challenged Over Irish Haven (2 Sep 2015)
Eight Things to Watch For in Donald Trump's Tax Plan (3 Sep 2015)
Mexico withheld millions in tax refunds from P&G, Unilever, Colgate (2 Sep 2015)
Foreign investors own £1 trillion-worth of British companies (2 Sep 2015)
Ownership of quoted shares for UK domiciled companies, 2014 (2 Sep 2015)
Etsy Faces Pressure to Abandon Irish Tax Strategy (1 Sep 2015)
Bernie Sanders: Get Rid Of Budget Sequester, Tax Billionaires, Make College Free (1 Sep 2015)
Increase Taxes? Talk by Donald Trump Alarms GOP (1 Sep 2015)
Hargreaves and Aviva call for flat-rate UK pension tax relief (1 Sep 2015)
Bear Grylls and Stephen Hendry back tax probe into green energy scheme (1 Sep 2015)
South Korea Amnesty for offshore tax cheats (1 Sep 2015)
Australia Coalition shelves $2bn tax on bank deposits as competition row deepens (1 Sep 2015)
Rolls-Royce entangled in Brazil's corruption scandal (1 Sep 2015)
UK income tax haul from non-doms has risen 7 per cent and hit £6.6bn last year (1 Sep 2015)
Vanuatu bribery case back in court Wednesday (1 Sep 2015)
Nuclear-Energy Official Pleads Guilty in Russian Uranium Sales Bribery Case (1 Sep 2015)
Russian Nuclear Energy Official Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1 Sep 2015)
Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering and Obstruction (1 Sep 2015)

AUGUST 2015

"People's Quantitative Easing" - The Principles Behind It (31 Aug 2015)
Levy Says Brazil Studying Return of Tax on Bank Transactions (31 Aug 2015)
Rheinmetall bribery case: Switzerland rejects Indian request for help (31 Aug 2015)
French tax cuts will not be at expense of deficit targets - minister (31 Aug 2015)
Rolls-Royce cooperating with Brazilian investigation into Petrobras bribery (31 Aug 2015)
NZ Consults On Property Withholding Tax For Offshore Sellers (31 Aug 2015)
Tax evasion: Nigeria FIRS to go after 325000 companies, persons (31 Aug 2015)
UK Dividend allowance criticised as a 'stealth tax' (31 Aug 2015)
Germany's industrial giants are mired in a corruption scandal in Greece (31 Aug 2015)
Trump As Tax Code King And Hedge Fund Slayer (31 Aug 2015)
Corporate Welfare: UK tax breaks spur £3bn North Sea gas project (31 Aug 2015)
GE's tax shelter diminishes in Connecticut (31 Aug 2015)
Taxing Money Madness – now is the perfect time for FTT/Robin Hood tax (28 Aug 2015)
Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG Reaches Resolution under Justice Department's Swiss Bank Program (28 Aug 2015)
Swiss Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG resolves tax-avoidance allegations - US Justice Dept (28 Aug 2015)
Current rules for taxation of non-doms (28 Aug 2015)
UK Business secretary Sajid Javid promises to cut red tape on money laundering (28 Aug 2015)
U.K. Looks to Relax Money Laundering Rules to Help Businesses (28 Aug 2015)
Think-tank WEF calls for rethink of anti money-laundering rules (28 Aug 2015)
Ireland's problem isn't high taxes, it's high dependency (28 Aug 2015)
Seychelles No Longer a Tax Haven for Indians (28 Apr 2015)
Bangladesh: National Board of Revenue zeroes in on tax dodgers (28 Aug 2015)
People's Daily executives detained on bribery claims (28 Aug 2015)
No, tax isn’t lawful extortion (or theft) (27 Aug 2015)
Jersey court may be ready to consider tax matters in future trust rulings (27 Aug 2015)
Denmark reveals €800m tax fraud – the country's biggest (27 Aug 2015)
TTIP deal: Business lobbyists dominate talks at expense of trade unions and NGOs (27 Aug 2015)
Prepare for more dividend tax hikes, warns UK expert (27 Aug 2015)
Donald Trump Says He Wants to Raise Taxes on Himself (27 Aug 2015)
Lawyers attack UK plans to charge taxpayers for HMRC challenges (27 Aug 2015)
DC names Bermuda on tax haven list (27 Ag 2015)
Macau arrests 17 in money laundering crackdown as China downturn fears grow (27 Aug 2015)
Airbnb in Paris to collect city taxes as site upsets hotels and residents (27 Aug 2015)
One in 65 UK adults now a millionaire, figures show (27 Aug 2015)
UK Tax fraud investigator 'stole £150000 in VAT scam (27 Aug 2015)
Taxes eat up 42% of average Canadian family's income (27 Aug 2015)
Owner of Connecticut's Mystic Pizza is sentenced to a year in prison for tax evasion (27 Aug 2015)
Tax Fraud Blotter: Trouble at Nifty Fifty (27 Aug 2015)
The West African Tax Giveaway: new report (26 Aug 2015)
Will Etsy's Brazen Tax Avoidance Cost the Company Its "B Corporation" Status? (26 Aug 2015)
Labour should be ready to tax rich more, says Andy Burnham (26 Aug 2015)
Jersey Royal Court may consider ‘fair taxation’ arguments in future trust rulings (26 Aug 2015)
Corporate Welfare: CBI wants new tax break for mid-size investment (26 Aug 2015)
Donald Trump on taxes: 'Hedge Fund managers are getting away with murder' (26 Aug 2015)
Corporate tax dodgers will love Trump's plan to crack down on corporate tax dodgers (26 Aug 2015)
Donald Trump Flip-Flops on Flat Tax in Literally Less than One Minute (26 Aug 2015)
Vintage Ethics: Etsy Crafts an Offshore Tax Dodge (26 Aug 2015)
The rising cost of charitable tax relief (26 Aug 2015)
More people on airplanes right now than taxpayers in Pakistan (26 Aug 2015)
Currying Favor For GE, Despite Its Low Tax Payments (23 Aug 2015)
Corporate tax avoidance could become a whole lot easier (23 Aug 2015)
CCCTB: No Plans To Harmonize EU CIT Rates, Says Moscovici (23 Aug 2015)
Offshore firms snap up £150bn of UK property over the past 15 years: Figure is almost as much as welfare and defence budgets combined (28 Aug 2015)

Use of Estonia in U.S. International Tax Planning (23 Aug 2015)
SEC Charges Citigroup Global Markets for Compliance and Surveillance Failures (23 Aug 2015)
Corruption: SEC Charges BNY Mellon With FCPA Violations (23 Aug 2015)
New publication: The Greatest Invention – Tax and the Campaign for a Just Society (21 Aug 2015)
Islands (the play): the conversation shifts (21 Aug 2015)
Guest post: time for a grown-up debate about corporate welfare (21 Aug 2015)
Corporate Welfare: British film industry tax breaks approved by EU (21 Aug 2015)
Ireland making 'little or no' effort to curb corruption - report (21 Aug 2015)
The International Tax System is ‘Repulsive And Inequitable.’ Here’s A Way To Fix It. (21 Aug 2015)
Tax expert warns Liechtenstein replacement will be tougher (21 Aug 2015)
UK sets sights on large-scale tax dodgers (21 Aug 2015)
Outstanding UK tax tribunal cases reach record levels (21 Aug 2015)
OECD Publishes Guidance on International Standard for Automatic Exchange of Tax Information (21 Aug 2015)
Overseas corporate corruption still a major problem (21 Aug 2015)
Sons of Indicted Swiss Financial Adviser Keep Business in the Family (21 Aug 2015)
US States Eye Taxes on Streaming Video and Cloud Computing (21 Aug 2015)
Corruption Currents: SEC Aids Germany in Ford Bribery Probe (21 Aug 2015)
Malta residents hit with tax on UK properties (21 Aug 2015)
'Entrepreneurship tsar' Michelle Mone under fire for use of tax avoidance schemes (21 Aug 2015)
FINRA probes Merrill over anti-money laundering compliance (21 Aug 2015)
HMRC wins appeal against Trinity Mirror (21 Aug 2015)
India Government approves pact with Seychelles to curb tax evasion, avoidance (21 Aug 2015)
China to Give Tax Breaks to More Small Companies (21 Aug 2015)
Accountancy firm Ernst & Young supports Airbnb's view on tax relief (21 Aug 2015)
Shining a light in dark places – Senate Committee recommendations to address corporate tax avoidance welcomed (19 Aug 2015)
Tracking corporate tax breaks: a welcome new form of transparency emerges in the U.S. (19 Aug 2015)
Mexican Billionaire's Firms Swept Up in U.S. Probe of Citigroup (19 Aug 2015)
The number of outstanding appeals by UK taxpayers to the first-tier tribunal increased by 8.5% in a year to reach 29,566 by the end of tax year 2014/15 (10 Aug 2015)
Citigroup Affiliates to Pay $180 Million to Settle Hedge Fund Fraud Charges (19 Aug 2015)
HMRC sets out detail to dividend taxation changes (19 Aug 2015)
US DOJ Looking Into Citigroup Money Laundering Controls (19 Aug 2015)
Etsy Taps Secret Irish Tax Haven While Touting Transparency (19 Aug 2015)
Australia Tax avoidance inquiry junks key proposal (19 Aug 2015)
UK Inland Revenue faces paying out tens of billions in tax refunds (19 Aug 2015)
Untaxed Globalisation (19 Aug 2015)
TTIP controversy: Secret trade deal can only be read in secure reading rooms in Brussels (19 Aug 2015)
Is Andy Burnham's London campaign headquarters a tax dodge (19 Aug 2015)
Whistleblowing as a remedy to the lack of institutional transparency? (19 Aug 2015)
Airbnb affair shows the pitfalls of special tax relief plans (17 Aug 2015)
How Etsy Crafted a Tax Strategy in Ireland (17 Aug 2015)
Revenue can check credit card spending to catch tax evasion (17 Aug 2015)
Walmart's use of tax havens hurts small businesses (17 Aug 2015)
MONEY LAUNDERING in Goa's Casinos (17 Aug 2015)
UK tax disputes at record level (17 Aug 2015)
Josh Frydenberg says Coalition will not name and shame corporate tax dodgers (17 Aug 2015)
Australia Senate aims to out tax dodgers with register of offending corporates (17 Aug 2015)
'Name and shame' global firms avoiding Australian taxes: Report (17 Aug 2015)
Arab Bank Reaches Settlement in Suit Accusing It of Financing Terrorism (17 Aug 2015)
Here's why Ernst & Young support Airbnb over tax relief for Irish hosts (17 Aug 2015)
Companies hold cash offshore until tax reform (17 Aug 2015)
U.S. tax revenues at record high. Who's paying? (17 Aug 2015)
Etsy Taps Secret Irish Tax Haven While Touting Transparency (15 Aug 2015)
Despite transparency claims, Etsy uses Ireland for tax secrecy (15 Aug 2015)
Petrobras Tax Settlement to Total 2 Billion Reais in Third Quarter (15 Aug 2015)
'These shops have been very naughty': passengers react to airport VAT row (15 Aug 2015)
ABN Amro banker suspected of millions in tax evasion (15 Aug 2015)
FIFA bribery suspect agrees his extradition to Nicaragua (15 Aug 2015)
Brazil launches investigation into World Cup corruption (15 Aug 2015)
Tax Inversions: Inverted logic (15 Aug 2015)
Google's Alphabet restructure could get boost from Delaware tax loophole (12 Aug 2014)
Offshore tax zones cost developing countries $100 billion a year (12 Aug 2015)
Terex becomes third US group in week to announce tax inversion deal (12 Aug 2015)
The creditors spitting mad that Sarah Ferguson is moving to a tax haven (12 Aug 2015)
Terex becomes third US group in week to announce tax inversion (12 Aug 2015)
KPMG suggests framework for disclosing tax information (12 Aug 2015)
Nifty Fifty's accountant gets prison for tax evasion (12 Aug 2015)
London's money-laundering 'enablers' face crackdown (12 Aug 2015)
Nigeria president appoints anti-corruption advisers (12 Aug 2015)
Nigeria to introduce new rules to stop tax evasion (12 Aug 2015)
Joseph Stiglitz: Why America (and Britain come to that) are on the wrong side of history (7 Aug 2015)
The UK cannot afford tax warfare (7 Aug 2015)
The power of corporate propaganda: review of ‘The Mythology of Business’ (7 Aug 2015)
Greece's tax revenues collapse as debt crisis continues (7 Aug 2015)
Deals challenge US inversions clampdown (7 Aug 2015)
The Enduring Appeal of Tax Inversion Deals (7 Aug 2015)
More Swiss banks settle tax evasion probe with US (7 Aug 2015)

Debt-Ridden Puerto Rico Plans to Become Tax Haven to Attract US Wealth

Charity should not begin with a tax break (7 Aug 2015)
Washington And Wall Street Tell Puerto Ricans: Drop Dead (7 Aug 2015)
No Human Rights breach in Stamp Duty tax avoidance challenge (7 Aug 2015)
Michael Howard oil corruption probe: UN report reveals 'serious conflicts of interest' at Soma (7 Aug 2015)
UK High earners handed £40000 pension perk – at £70m cost to taxpayers (7 Aug 2015)
Brazil tax amnesty plan may struggle to lure back offshore assets (7 Aug 2015)
Canadian Banks' Money-Laundering Controls Failed (7 Aug 2015)
Netflix Tax: Canada's Big Election Issue (7 Aug 2015)
Italy police check 59000 people for San Marino tax evasion (7 Aug 2015)
UK Gov't draws up plans to axe higher rate pension tax relief (7 Aug 2015)
No country for dirty money: behind Britain’s populist promise on corruption (6 Aug 2015)
US Appeals Court Gives Billionaire Shot At $300 Million In Tax Shelter Losses (6 Aug 2015)
Canada: CRA targeting mining-sector tax havens (6 Aug 2015)
Trillions of dollars stashed away in tax havens pose economic challenge (6 Aug 2015)
Corruption Currents: UN Seeks Somali Probe of UK Oil Firm (6 Aug 2015)
Luxembourg's Euro Note Love Affair Raises Eyebrows Over Taxes (6 Aug 2015)
Alcatel-Lucent pays $10 million to Costa Rica's ICE over old bribery scandal (6 Aug 2015)
The Left needs to stop fiddling about the fringes of the taxation system (6 Aug 2015)
Pensions and tax (6 Apr 2015)
Uber takes legal action over Australia tax ruling (6 Aug 2015)
Ingenious film investors lose human rights challenge over upfront tax (6 Aug 2015)
New report on banks’ tax avoidance: Transparency is key to fight tax dumping (5 Aug 2015)
Microsoft's Offshore Profit Pile Surges Past $100 Billion Mark (5 Aug 2015)
Tax Inversions: Shire's $30 Billion Bid For Baxalta Is All About Drug Pipelines And Tax Savings (5 Aug 2015)
Burger King wanted Tim Hortons' headquarters in UK for tax reasons (5 Aug 2015)
Fact and Fiction: Time to review Ireland's economic statistics (5 Aug 2015)
New US Rule to Lift Veil on Tax Breaks (5 Aug 2015)
HMRC wins £45 million in Santander subsidiary tax avoidance (5 Aug 2015)
Read judgement in Abbey National Treasury Services Plc Appellant - and - THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S Respondents REVENUE & CUSTOMS (5 Aug 2015)
OECD publishes compliance ratings on tax transparency (5 Aug 2015)
Nigeria: Buhari faces acid test over Halliburton bribery scandal (5 Aug 2015)
Tackling tax havens welcome in Scotland (5 Aug 2015)
Which costs more: UK benefit fraud or tax avoidance? (5 Aug 2015)
RBS share sale: UK Taxpayers lose out on £1.1 billion in initial sell-off (5 Aug 2015)
Dear Obama: Corruption Isn’t Just Africa’s Problem (5 Aug 2015)
What use the tax gap? A defence of a key element in #Corbynomics (4 Aug 2015)
What Use the Tax Gap? (4 Aug 2015)
TAX TRANSPARENCY: TAX GAP (4 Aug 2015)
OECD updates anti-tax evasion list (4 Aug 2015)
Richard Murphy :Who Collects Our Taxes and Why It Matters (4 Aug 2015)
Bank EKI Genossenschaft Reaches Resolution under US Justice Department's Swiss Bank Program (4 Aug 2015)
Luxleaks committee demands overhaul of EU tax rules (4 Aug 2015)
Lord Ashcroft in dispute with Belize over control of offshore register (4 Aug 2015)
US Dept of Justice initiates criminal probe against Deutsche Bank (4 Aug 2015)
Malaysian prime minister had $700m of 'donations' in bank account – watchdog (4 Aug 2015)
Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can because he hates government 'waste' (4 Aug 2015)
Benefits of ‘double Irish’ replacement tax in doubt (4 Aug 2015)
Former vice-president of Louis Berger arrested in bribery case (4 Aug 2015)
Nordea Builds Defenses After Swedish Money Laundering Fine (4 Aug 2015)
Michael Howard: SFO to probe former Tory leader firm's payments to Somali regime (4 Aug 2015)
If only we had a land value tax (3 Aug 2015)
UK to back SBM Offshore despite bribery investigations (3 Aug 2015)
Thousands of pieces of Scottish land owned by offshore companies (3 Aug 2015)
Donald Trump: "I pay as little as possible" in taxes (3 Aug 2015)
Donald Trump: 'I Fight Like Hell' To Pay Less In Taxes (3 Aug 2015)
Uber takes legal action over Australia tax ruling (3 Aug 2015)
Tax evasion is hurting the country's growth' (3 Aug 2015)
Ireland is not paying ample tax — look at Danish model (3 Aug 2015)
Hillary Clinton Releases Eight Years of Tax Returns (3 Aug 2015)
Former Tory leader Michael Howard agrees to talk to Fraud Squad as part of criminal probe into Somali corruption allegation at oil firm he chairs (3 Aug 2015)
New accounting standards give India Inc tax jitters, companies put aside funds for potential penalties (3 Aug 2015)
Over a lifetime, an average UK household will pay £734,240 (in 2013-14 prices) in direct and indirect taxes (3 Aug 2015)
Over a lifetime, an average UK household in the bottom 20 per cent by income will pay £282,545 in direct and indirect taxes. This represents a 4.1 per cent increase on the lifetime tax calculation for this group last year (3 Aug 2015)
Over a lifetime, an average UK household in the top 20 per cent by income will pay £1,488,275 in direct and indirect taxes. This represents a 2.2 per cent decrease on the lifetime tax calculation for this group last year (3 Aug 2015)
Hedge Funds Helped Wreck Puerto Rico's Economy, And The Poor Are Paying The Price (3 Aug 2015)
India Study recommends land tax in proportion to market value (3 Aug 2015)
The case for a land-value tax (3 Aug 2015)
BHP in call to tackle tax havens (3 Aug 2015)

JULY 2015

The Tax Justice Network Podcast, July 2015 (31 Jul 2015)
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #68 (31 Jul 2015)
Taxes Drove Valeant, Burger King Deals, US Senate Report Says (31 Jul 2015)
Memo to Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: US Corporations Already Pay a Low Tax Rate (31 Jul 2015)
US Senate Uses Valeant Pharma, Burger King, AB InBev To Expose Unequal Corporate Taxation In U.S. (31 Jul 2015)
US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Report: Impact of the U.S. Tax Code on the Market for Corporate Control and Jobs (31 July 2015)
Ingenious film investors lose human rights challenge over upfront tax (31 Jul 2015)
After Hillary Clinton helped settle tax case, UBS increased foundation support (31 Jul 2015)
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah : The Case for a Destination-Based Corporate Tax (31 Jul 2015)
Bulgaria's Sopharma CEO Ognian Donev Charged with BGN 63 M Tax Evasion (31 Jul 2015)
Uber's rival says the company uses 'tax avoidance on an industrial scale' (31 Jul 2015)
Taxation of ETF by Res Non Dom - Tax Implications? (31 Jul 2015)
IRS Declines to Assure Avago Takeover Will Be Tax-Free to Broadcom Holders (31 Jul 2015)
The Amartya Sen Prize Contest for New Work on Tax Justice (30 Jul 2015)
Former Anglo Irish Bank officials guilty of tax conspiracy (30 Jul 2015)
Bankers, lawyers and other professionals abetting corrupt money in UK property market (30 Jul 2015)
Fiat accused of tax evasion by former CEO (30 Jul 2015)
Taxes on Digital Books Are Called Unfair (30 Jul 2015)
Anti-corruption campaigners furious as UK Government considers softening Bribery Act (30 Jul 2015)
US Beer Maker Says Tax Code Encourages Foreign Takeovers (30 Jul 2015)
Why do off-shore tax havens still exist? (30 Jul 2015)
Corruption Currents: Glaxo Faces New Bribery Allegations (30 Jul 2015)
Greece targets tax evasion at holiday hotspots (30 Jul 2015)
Italy's Saipem Implicated in Petrobras Corruption Scandal in Brazil (30 Jul 2015)
When it comes to corruption, Britain really should shut up (30 Jul 2015)
UBS Too Dirty To Sue Billionaire Offshore Tax Cheat, Judge Rules (29 Jul 2015)
UBS, Whistle-Blower Lose Lawsuit Because of 'Unclean Hands' (29 Jul 2015)
'World's rich are turning London into capital of inequality and tax evasion' (29 Jul 2015)
US Senate Body Shifts Focus After Years Probing Apple, Goldman, UBS (29 Jul 2015)
Walmart's use of tax havens hurts small businesses (29 Jul 2015)
US Lawmakers Unveil New Tax Plan on Intellectual Property (29 Jul 2015)
Belgians aim to get economy moving with €7.2bn tax changes (29 Jul 2015)
Mead Johnson to Pay $12 Million to Settle Bribery Probe (29 Jul 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges Mead Johnson Nutrition With FCPA Violations (29 Jul 2015)
Is it game over for money laundering in London’s property market? (29 Jul 2015)
Brussels rejects Yanis Varoufakis' claims that troika controlled Greek tax system (29 Jul 2015)
If the UK government is serious about tackling dirty money in the UK it has to do a lot more than a property register (28 Jul 2015)
Moving Toward Exposing Corporate Secrecy in World Bank Contracting (28 Jul 2015)
Tax avoidance: Dividend strippers put focus on mutual funds (28 Jul 2015)
Citigroup's Mexican Operations Under Wider Scrutiny For Possible Money Laundering (28 Jul 2015)
Tax Evasion on Greek Islands Exceeds 50% (28 Jul 2015)
India, China face exodus of millionaires: Report (28 Jul 2015)
David Cameron: UK property no safe haven for 'dirty money' (28 Jul 2015)
Resurrecting the CCCTB is attractive on paper but faces serious hurdles (28 Jul 2015)
New Disclosure Rules for Shell Companies in New York Luxury Real Esatte Sales (28 Jul 2015)
London property: if secrecy goes, will prices go too? (28 Jul 2015)
Taiwan's Formosa Plastics chief quits amid bribery probe (28 Jul 2015)
Introducing “Trickle-Out Oligarch Economics” – How at Least $21 Trillion in Wealth Fled Offshore (27 Jul 2015)
Ebay and Paypal users face 'huge' tax crackdown (27 Jul 2015)
Internet companies face 'tax crackdown' (27 Jul 2015)
Foreign criminals drive up London house prices by laundering money into property (27 Jul 2015)
Puerto Rico debt crisis: austerity for residents, but tax breaks for hedge funds (27 Jul 2015)
Justice for sale: Big companies could soon escape prosecution for corporate corruption - by paying their way out (27 Jul 2015)
Australia to tax ALL international online purchases (27 Jul 2015)
The eurozone could get its own finance minister and tax powers (27 Jul 2015)
US Tax Avoidance Trumps Greek Tax Evasion (27 Jul 2015)
TTIP: A Corporate Lobbying Paradise – Which Businesses Are Pushing Most for EU Trade Deal (27 Jul 2015)
Debt miracle: Why the country that borrowed the most industrialised first (27 Jul 2015)
US Companies Spend Nine Dollars On Shareholders For Every Dollar On Investment (27 Jul 2015)
UK Minister: Act now or lose pension tax relief (27 Jul 2015)
Nigeria cannot fight corruption alonel (27 Jul 2015)
Former Portuguese bank boss of BES under house arrest (27 Jul 2015)
Time to look at national insurance, the ultimate stealth tax (27 Jul 2015)
Former UK pensions minister: the future of tax relief (27 Jul 2015)
Dispute breaks out over non-dom double taxation (27 Jul 2015)
Mystery on Baker Street: Brutal Kazakh official linked to £147m London property empire (24 Jul 2015)
Why, oh why, aren’t HMRC doing what is really needed when it comes to data collection? (24 Jul 2015)
End of the road for “parasite” Member States? (24 Jul 2015)
Two more Swiss banks strike deals with US over tax evasion (24 Jul 2015)
US Data from Swiss Banks May Mean More Prosecutions (24 Jul 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Swiss Bank Program Resolutions with Two More Banks (24 Jul 2015)
Big businesses should agree to renounce aggressive tax planning, says HMRC - Yes, no chance (24 Jul 2015)
EU Commission orders France to recover €1.37 billion in incompatible aid from EDF (24 Jul 2015)
US IRS targets tax dodge by private equity firms (24 Jul 2015)
Citigroup's Mexico Unit Faces Widening U.S. Money-Laundering Probe (24 Jul 2015)
U.S. Authorities Probe Banks' Handling of FIFA Funds (24 Jul 2015)
How shedding light on company ownership will help beat financial crime (24 Jul 2015)
Two UK groups in talks with SFO over bribery plea deals
Increasing the amount of money ringfenced for genuine investment, rather than further cuts to corporation tax, is a better idea (24 Jul 2015)
U.S. Cuts Off Tanzania Bank over Money Laundering Concerns (24 Jul 2015)
This will make then quake in their boots and the way to their bank: 'Naming and shaming' threat for wealthy tax avoiders (24 Jul 2015)
Two Mergers, One Tax-Free Swap (24 Jul 2015)
UK Universities to lose lucrative R&D tax credit (24 Jul 2015)
Cameron and Osborne in Downing Street flats tax blunder (24 Jul 2015)
How the Tories are redefining the state's relationship with its citizens (23 Jul 2015)
Scottish Left Review: 'The fight for workers' rights under the shadow of the Tories' (23 Jul 2015)
60 minutes Australia - Westminster UK - high level child abuse exposé (23 Jul 2015)
60 Minutes exposes organised paedophilia among highest ranks of British elite (23 Jul 2015)
Kid Gloves- UK government proposes special measures for persistent aggressive tax planners (23 Jul 2015)
Brain Disorders Research Limited Partnership: HMRC claims victory against £29 million tax avoidance scheme - Jersey registered special purpose vehicle and company involved (23 Jul 2015)
Tax Tribual Judgement THE BRAIN DISORDERS RESEARCH LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, NEIL HOCKIN v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (23 Jul 2015)
EU demands return of EDF France tax break (23 Jul 2015)
TSB says George Osborne's bank profits tax could hurt smaller outfits (23 Jul 2015)
Anti-money laundering body Austrac to begin legal proceedings against Tabcorp (23 Jul 2015)
Jersey -based company used for tax avoidance to claim tax releif on borrowing: HMRC wins £29 million tax avoidance case (23 Jul 2015)
Court judgement in THE BRAIN DISORDERS RESEARCH LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, NEIL HOCKIN v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS (23 Jul 2015)
Egypt retrieves over $1.5 billion in tax evasion cases (23 Jul 2015)
Brazilian construction giant in money laundering probe (23 Jul 2015)
Pacific Island Casino Settles U.S. Criminal Anti-Money-Laundering Case (23 Jul 2015)
Italian police seize €2bn in 'Ndrangheta mafia assets (23 Jul 2015)
The National Audit Office, the tax gap, HMRC and ‘other estimates’ (22 Jul 2015)
HMRC say it: tax avoidance is a choice (22 Jul 2015)
HMRC Paper: Exploring Large Business Tax Strategy Behaviour (22 Jul 2015)
NAO- Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General: HM Revenue & Customs 2014-15 Accounts (22 Jul 2015)
Laundering Russian Money in London: Undercover Reporters Show You How It's Done (22 Jul 2015)
Lawmakers, White House Explore Tax Revamp for US Firms Overseas (22 Jul 2015)
Call for greater transparency in prime London property deals (22 Jul 2015)
Joe Hockey spares the stick at PricewaterhouseCoopers tax summit (22 Jul 2015)
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #67 (21 Jul 2015)
HMRC’s falling way short of George’s expectations (21 Jul 2015)
Beneficial Ownership and Transparency Panel – The Debriefing (21 Jul 2015)
Who has got the most tax evasion disclosures amongst the Crown Dependencies? (21 Jul 2015)
Will the patent box break BEPS? (21 Jul 2015)
Private equity tax raid comes with an extra sting for non-doms (21 Jul 2015)
Athens delays increasing farmers' taxes (21 Jul 2015)
Walmart's tax havens hurt small businesses (21 Jul 2015)
Outsourced HMRC IT tax credit system saves just £500000 (21 Jul 2015)
UK Freelance employees face new scrutiny on tax (21 Jul 2015)
The first five years of tax collection by George Osborne: a progress report (20 Jul 2015)
Fifa scandal: US securities commission investigates company dealings (20 Jul 2015)
British MPs to launch Fifa corruption probe: FA, Serious Fraud Office and sponsors to be asked why they did not do more (20 Jul 2015)
Global tax regime must protect developing nations: India (20 Jul 2015)
US IRS Probes Singapore Asset Manager (20 Jul 2015)
Tax Gap: HMRC missed out on £34bn of tax last year (20 Jul 2015)
EU Lawmakers Throw Out Directive Over Tax Cheat Claims (20 Jul 2015)
Osborne blow to prime London property market (20 Jul 2015)
HMRC to crack down on company tax avoidance under new proposals (20 Jul 2015)
Privatisation and corporate welfare: UK Tax man saves just £500,000 from a target of £285m as IT project stalls (20 Jul 2015)
Hungary threatens foreign companies in tax dispute (20 Jul 2015)
Greek maritime industry fears being punished for its success (20 Jul 2015)
HMRC’s running away from you (17 Jul 2015)
Party funder enjoys low-tax Swiss sojourn and eligibility for preferential UK tax treatment on return (17 Jul 2015)
Petrobras pays Brazil $508 million to settle tax dispute (17 Jul 2015)
Former New York congressman Michael Grimm gets prison time for tax evasion (17 Jul 2015)
Next gets a £22.4m tax bill after losing avoidance case (17 Jul 2015)
Shining a Light on Tax Avoidance in Africa (17 Jul 2015)
Former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb extradited to US on bribery charges (17 Jul 2015)
Criminal charges loom over facilitating tax evasion (17 Jul 2015)
Tax avoidance deserves jail term: EFF (17 Jul 2015)
HMRC intensifies offshore tax crackdown with five new sanctions (17 Jul 2015)
Deutsche Bank probed by UK regulator for 'laundering Russian cash' (17 Jul 2015)
Drug trafficking and corruption bankroll Guatemalan politics (17 Jul 2015)
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility end date brought forward (17 Jul 2015)
Big Money Stalls Key Dodd-Frank Anti-Corruption Rule for 5 years and counting (17 Jul 2015)
HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15: No of offices 170, compared to 539 in 2005 (17 Jul 2015)
Plan to cut £1bn tax-credit fraud not achievable - NAO (17 Jul 2015)
Global tax body: “After 3 days of bullying, developing countries were run over” (16 Jul 2015)
The UK Tax Lock: smashed on installation (16 Jul 2015)
Richer nations reject call for tough tax provisions at foreignaid conference (16 Jul 2015)
Oil and gas giant Chevron's deep links to Bermuda tax haven (16 Jul 2015)
Emerging Challenges Facing Tax Policymakers and Administrations in the Area of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing (16 Jul 2015)
Addressing global taxation and gender equality (16 Jul 2015)
HMRC arrest six in £22m tobacco smuggling and tax fraud raids (16 Jul 2015)
Fifa corruption: Swiss extradite first official to US (16 Jul 2015)
New corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent facilitation of tax to include evasion of non-UK tax (16 Jul 2015)
UK Consultation Paper: Tackling offshore tax evasion: a new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of evasion (16 Jul 2015)
Let’s fix tax and fund development (15 Jul 2015)
Quote of the day – Africa hit by global tax intrigues (15 Jul 2015)
Jersey's finances going down the pan (15 Jul 2015)
Global Tax Body: in everyone’s interest (15 Jul 2015)
Addis Ababa talks risk deadlock over UN agency for tax (15 Jul 2015)
HSBC Money-Laundering Case Yields $116 Million Bounty for Queens DA (15 Jul 2015)
Britain's banks face £40bn bill as a result of George Osborne's extra taxes (15 Jul 2015)
Australia Energy giants called to explain billions in tax havens (15 Jul 2015)

Deutsche Bank 'faces money laundering probe' (15 Jul 2015)
UK Tribunal Rules on “Rate-Booster” Strategy (15 Jul 2015)
Lukoil wants EU involved in Romanian tax evasion case (15 Jul 2015)
Should Nation States Compete? – download the workshop presentations here (14 Jul 2015)
Did NGOs invent a pot of gold? (No.) (14 Jul 2015)
The Right-wing backlash: CAN STOPPING ‘TAX DODGING’ BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES CLOSE THE GAP IN FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT? (14 Jul 2015)
Tax justice is not about big numbers (14 Jul 2015)
Rich countries accused of foiling effort to give poorer nations a voice on tax (14 Jul 2015)
Lord Green admits HSBC should have conducted tougher checks on Swiss arm (14 Jul 2015)
EU tax: Tough love for multinationals' sweetheart deals (14 Jul 2015)
Battle over online gambling tax referred to Europe (14 Jul 2015)
Did Greeks fail to pay 89.5% of taxes? (14 Jul 2015)
£2,000 hit for UK contractors who use limited companies to pay less tax (14 Jul 2015)
Romania's prime minister indicted in corruption inquiry (14 Jul 2015)
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta indicted on corruption, money laundering and tax evasion (14 Jul 2015)
Film scheme investors sue Ingenious and Coutts over tax trouble (14 Jul 2015)
Fraudster who swindled £750,000 from investors claiming he was making a £20million film with Jeremy Irons as part of tax dodge is ordered to pay back £500,000 (14 Jul 2015)
Barclays could buy shell company to acquire banking licence as it attempts to find quickest way to meet new rules that force banks to be split in two (14 Jul 2015)
New UK dividend tax: how it works – and how to avoid it (14 Jul 2015)
New research by Kevin Farnsworth: the race to the bottom doesn’t stop at zero (13 Jul 2015)
Has the UK government taken note of the Fair Tax Mark? (13 Jul 2015)
Tax Dodging Bill Campaign: the story so far (13 Jul 2015)
Beanie Baby Maker's Probation Sentence Upheld in Tax Case (13 Jul 2015)
UK could be branded a tax haven after Osborne's surprise corporation tax cut (13 Jul 2015)
Pope laments 'gangrene' of corruption plaguing 'all peoples of the world' (13 Jul 2015)
Swiss widen Fifa money-laundering investigation (13 Jul 2015)
IRS Cracks Down on Hedge Fund Tax Strategy (13 Jul 2015)
IRS Fights Hedge-Fund Tax Maneuver Once Used by Renaissance (13 Jul 2015)
George Osborne's family reportedly 'struck a £6m property deal' with firm in tax haven (13 Jul 2015)
The new UK dividend tax: a simple case of double taxation (13 Jul 2015)
Greek Shipping Industry Frets Over Higher Taxes (13 Jun 2015)
Former Tencent Employees Detained in Bribery Probe (13 Jul 2015)
Bribery: Silvio Berlusconi bribery trial: Ex-Italy PM convicted (13 Jul 2015)
From Russia with cash: the London laundry exposed (10 Jul 2015)
The EU Parliament votes for public country-by-country reporting (10 Jul 2015)
Where does £5 billion of UK tax savings from beating avoidance and evasion come from (10 Jul 2015)
George Osborne's £27.8 billion give away to business (10 Jul 2015)
Fake residency: the yawning loophole the OECD must close (10 Jul 2015)
IMF: US isn’t doing enough to curb financial secrecy (10 Jul 2015)
Starbucks pays corporation tax of less than €4200 (10 Jul 2015)
US IRS cracks down on hedge funds' tax strategy (10 Jul 2015)
Shareholder Rights Directive - Corporate governance: MEPs vote to enforce tax transparency (10 Jul 2015)
EU lawmakers back tougher company rules to fight tax avoidance (10 Jul 2015)
Tax: MEPs advocate country-by-country reporting to help developing countries (10 Jul 2015)
Swiss banks agree US tax evasion deal with Justice Depart (10 Jul 2015)
US Justice Department Announces Two Banks Reach Resolutions under Swiss Bank Program (10 Jul 2015)
UK House of Lords to grill ex-HSBC chairman in tax evasion row (10 Jul 2015)
Project Wickenby: the ATO's drive against tax evasion (10 Jul 2015)
Budget 2015: You think you'll be paying less tax? Think again (10 Jul 2015)
The dividend tax shake-up that affects small investors as well as fat cats (10 Jul 2015)
George Osborne's family reportedly 'struck a £6m property deal' (10 Jul 2015)
Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don't debate (10 Jul 2015)
U.K. Government Plans Tax Crackdown on Carried Interest (10 Jul 2015)
Tax them and they will grow (10 Jul 2015)
Could tax breaks be on the agenda for big oil companies? (10 Jul 2015)
Budget 2015: tax promises leave little room to drive a viable economic plan (6 Jul 2015)
Debate: Has corporation tax had its day (6 Jul 2015)
Stop the bleeding: new African tax justice campaign (6 Jul 2015)
A pound is a pound is a pound (6 Jul 2015)
Dirty Money: How corrupt PNG cash is reaching Australia (6 Jul 2015)
London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert (6 Jul 2015)
The cost of UK tax relief on contributions to both work and personal pensions has rocketed from £17.6bn in 2001-02 to around £35bn (6 Jul 2015)
UK: Those earning £50,000 and above benefited from 53pc of total pension tax relief. Those earning under £30,000 benefited from 21pc (6 Jul 2015)
Union of Greek Shipowners denies phase-out of offshore tax status (6 Jul 2015)
Croation police arrest two football bosses for suspected tax evasion and bribery (6 Jul 2015)
Corporate Welfare: US renewables industry seeks tax breaks (6 Jul 2015)
Faster UK growth to cut billions off deficit as tax revenues surge (6 Jul 2015)
FIFA's Webb charged in Cayman Island's corruption case (6 Jul 2015)
Carbon tax repeal sparks jump in Australia's electricity emissions (6 Jul 2015)
Boris Johnson: cut top rate of income tax but only if firms pay living wage (6 Jul 2015)
EU TAXE Committee Video: Measures Similar in Nature or Effect and Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs - meeting 02/06/2015 (3 Jul 2017)
76% of large companies are ‘most worried about country-by-country reporting’ (3 Jul 2015)
Fix a broken tax system? It's good advice but George Osborne won't take it (3 Jul 2015)
Time for tax reform (3 Jul 2015)
LuxLeaks: Juncker postpones EU parliament hearing (3 Jul 2015)
China joins OECD efforts to end tax evasion (3 Jul 2015)
Top UK arners set to lose £13500 in pension tax relief in George Osborne's budget (3 jUL 2015)
Axe tax relief on employer pension subs, think tank urges (3 Jul 2015)
Retail Union Spends Big On Walmart 'Tax Haven' Ad Campaign (3 Jul 2015)
Osborne plans 'non-dom' tax crackdown in Budget (3 Jul 2015)
Greece crisis: How has Greece spent its money and who does it still owe €242.8bn to? (3 Jul 2015)
The sorry tale of the offshore wheeler-dealer (2 Jul 2015)
LuxLeaks firm (PricewaterhouseCoopers) advising EU commission on tax (2 Jul 2015)
'Corporate tax deals are robbing poor countries of teachers and nurses' (2 Jul 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: United States asks Swiss to extradite seven in FIFA inquiry (2 July 2015)
Delayed UK tax-free childcare initiative prompts concerns (2 Jul 2015)
Plans to give English MPs powers on laws and taxation branded 'racist' by Labour MP (2 Jul 2015)
Petrobras corruption losses may be larger (2 Jul 2015)
How Switzerland corrupted its courts to nail Rudolf Elmer (1 Jul 2015)
UK Pension tax reliefs cost £48 billion a year (1 Jul 2015)
Australia Pharmaceutical companies pay just $85 million tax on $8 billion revenue (1 Jul 2015)
Yes, Greece has a serious tax evasion problem (1 Jul 2015)
Greece's former tax-collection chief just told us why the country has such a massive tax-evasion problem (1 Jul 2015)
Danish Companies Win Higher Interest by Overpaying Taxes (1 Jul 2015)
Vanishing act: how global auditor Grant Thornton failed to spot theft of 15% of Moldova's wealth (1 Jul 2015)
UK Pensioners abroad face steep UK tax charges (1 Jul 2015)
UK Labour ends call for 50p tax rate but warns chancellor against any further cut (1 Jul 2015)
US Department of Justice Seeks Forfeiture of $34 Million in Bribe Payments to the Republic of Chad’s Former Ambassador to the U.S. and Canada (1 Jul 2015)
Revolving Doors - They have friends in high places: O'Donnell and King join PwC as non-execs (1 Jul 2015)
Jeb Bush tax returns reveal $20m in income over past three years (1 Jul 2015)

JUNE 2015

The Tax Justice Network Podcast, June 2015 (30 Jun 2015)
The truth is out: companies set UK tax policy and they’re doing all they can to keep it that way (30 Jun 2015)
The poor are paying a bigger proportion of tax than the rich and the gap is widening (30 Jun 2015)
The graphs that shows how the UK poor are paying more in tax than the rich (30 Jun 2015)
Poorest families pay more in tax than the richest people in Britain (30 Jun 2015)
The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Household Income, Financial Year Ending 2014 (30 Jun 2015)
ONS: The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Household Income, Financial Year Ending 2014 (30 Jun 2015)
What do tax and spending do to inequality and poverty? (30 Jun 2015)
EU Cracks Down on Tax Dodges by Multinationals From Disney to Coke (30 Jun 2015)
European Union Rooting Out Tax Dodges; Amazon, Disney, Coca-Cola in Crosshairs (30 Jun 2015)
Is a tax based on value of land the best replacement for council tax? (30 Jun 2015)
Texas Court Denies Insurer's Reinsurance Tax Break Argument (30 Jun 2015)
Andrew Tyrie reluctantly backs quango to simplify tax (30 Jun 2015)
Hamas closing Gaza's mobile phone company over 'tax dodge' (30 Jun 2015)
Redundancy tax break helps executives cut tax bills (30 Jun 2015)
Phil Mickelson tied to laundering of $3M in sports bets (30 Jun 2015)
Tax Justice Research Bulletin 1(6) (29 Jun 2015)
Quote of the day: JFK and secrecy (29 Jun 2015)
UK tax policy dictated by companies not ministers says leading treasury expert (29 Jun 2015)
Corporate Welfare: Disney Weighs $1 Billion Anaheim Expansion in Tax Deal With City (29 Jun 2015)
From IPL to Swiss money to tax-havens; New book on black money tells all (29 Jun 2015)
Mafia 'linked to senior Australian politicians' (29 Jun 2015)
Sierra Leone urged to get tough on tax to repair battered health system (29 Jun 2015)
Ten arrested in £4m VAT and money laundering fraud (29 Jun 2015)
Russian culture minister calls for tax on Hollywood films (29 Jun 2015)
Former Senior Executive of Qualcomm Sentenced to 18 Months and Fined $500,000 for Insider Trading and Money Laundering (29 Jun 2015)
Class Wars: 160 Tory MPs 'back cutting top UK tax rate to 40p' (29 Jun 2015)
Campaign group drops HMRC tax evasion judicial review (29 Jun 2015)
The Tories should remember that the poorest pay the most tax (29 Jun 2015)
Small UK businesses failing to reduce tax bill, says poll (29 Jun 2015)
Macau casino junket figure faces Hong Kong money laundering charges (29 Jun 2015)
Corporate Tax Incentives and Capital Structure: Empirical Evidence from UK Tax Returns (29 Jun 2015)
Tax havens: beyond illicit financial flows (26 Jun 2015)
Greece Willing to Raise Taxes on Merchant Ships (26 Jun 2015)
A case for taxing land (26 Jun 2015)
Amazon pays just £11.9m in tax on £5.3bn worth of UK sales (26 Jun 2015)
Amazon pays just £11m tax but relies on OUR money to boost its low staff wages (26 Jun 2015)
Erasmus to Tobin tax: A French vision for Europe (26 Jun 2015)
Offshore pensions crackdown leaves thousands facing tax bills (26 Jun 2015)
Forget Heathrow and Gatwick expansion, the Davies report should tackle frequent flyers: most common destinations these UK residents are flying to are recognised tax havens (26 Jun 2015)
UK Pension freedoms to yield £1.2bn tax windfall for Treasury (26 Jun 2015)
India likely to sign FATCA pact in early July: Finance Ministry official (26 Jun 2015)
TJN/AABA Conference: Following in John Methuen’s Early Eighteenth-Century Footsteps: Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage Theory and the False Foundations of the Competitiveness of Nations by Matthew Watson (26 May 2015)
TJN/AABA Conference: JUSTICE, MIGRATION, AND THE COMPETITION FOR TALENT by Darian Heim (26 Jun 2015)
TJN/AABA Conference: South Korean Nation Branding and the Building of a Competitiveness Society by Juliette Schwak (26 Jun 2015)
TJN/AABA Conference: Competition amongst the London Clearing Banks, 1946 to 1979 by Linda Arch (26 Jun 2015)
TJN/AABA Conference: The Changing Role of the USA in the Regulation of the Offshore Economy by Michael Tyrala (26 Jun 2015)
TJN?AABA Conference: The Finance Curse and Competition through Finance by John Christensen, Nick Shaxson, Duncan Wigan (26 Jun 2015)
TJN/AABA Conferenc: Politics of Intra-Firm Trade: Corporate Price Planning and the Double Role of the Arm’s Length Principle by Matti Ylönen (26 Jun 2015)
The state, international competitiveness and neoliberal globalisation: is there a future beyond ‘the competition state’? (26 Jun 2015)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (26 Jun 2015)
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures by Charles M. Tiebout (26 Jun 2015)
First global week of action for tax justice hits 43 countries (24 Jun 2015)
Amazon's UK business paid just £11.9m in tax last year (24 Jun 2015)
Offshore tax zones cost developing countries $100 bln a year -UN (24 Jun 2015)
Companies Avoid Paying $200 Billion in Tax (24 Jun 2015)
Julius Baer Sets Aside $350 Million to Settle US Tax Probe (24 Jun 2015)
Spain to question Gibraltar's exclusion from EU tax havens blacklist (24 Jun 2015)
New US Tax Break Would Benefit Firms Adept at Avoiding Taxes (24 Jun 2015)
French Economist Piketty: Europe’s Stance on Greek Tax Reform Is Hypocritical (24 Jun 2015)
FATCA: India, US to sign cross border tax compliance deal (24 Jun 2015)
Zambia to Roll Back Copper Mining Taxes (24 Jun 2015)
Osborne's opportunity for audacious tax reform (24 Jun 2015)
Harriet Harman attacks David Cameron over tax credit cuts and pay levels (24 Jun 2015)
David Cameron under pressure from Tory MPs to review controversial 'bedroom tax' (24 Jun 2015)
Tax and the Death of Democracy – interview from The Renegade Economist (23 Jun 2015)
Tax matters - Greece bailout deal hinges on collection rates (23 Jun 2015)
EU diplomat defends tax haven list (23 Jun 2015)
The EU Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) (23 Jun 2015)
Leeds owner Massimo Cellino fined €40000 for tax avoidance (23 Jun 2015)
Italy Seeks Charges for Bank of China in Money Launder Probe (23 Jun 2015)
Greek reform proposal prioritises taxes over pensions (23 Jun 2015)
Rand Paul's Implausible Flat Tax (23 Jun 2015)
Rand Paul proposed the most bizarre tax plan I've ever seen (23 Jun 2015)
World anti-money laundering body deletes FIFA-related warning (23 Jun 2015)
For Pete's Sark! Guernsey demands removal from EU tax haven blacklist (23 Jun 2015)
Tax advisers: the backlash against the backlash (23 Jun 2015)
UK benefits cuts: Working families could lose up to £1690 in tax credits (23 Jun 2015)
New IMF research: tax affects inequality; inequality affects growth (22 Jun 2015)
Could UK and US squabbling on international tax reform just be an agreed ruse to kill the whole thing? (22 Jun 2015)
Tax laws for big business are broken. Britain wants them to stay that way (22 Jun 2015)
US official says British government undermined progress on tax avoidance (22 Jun 2015)
Money laundering and shell companies: Scam sparks Scots fraud haven fears (22 Jun 2015)
Two more Swiss banks settle with US over tax evasion (22 Jun 2015)
Why Scotland should adopt the Land Value Tax (22 Jun 2015)
Banks did not do enough to police FIFA transactions, says global agency (22 Jun 2015)
Tullow Oil to Settle Uganda Tax Dispute for $250 Million (22 Jun 2015)
Italian prosecutors seek Bank of China indictment over money laundering scheme (22 Jun 2015)
Switzerland still 'attractive location' for money laundering (22 Jun 2015)
Compass Group subsidiary 'paid bribes to Kazakhstan customs officials' (22 Jun 2015)
The Road to Harmful Tax Competition and Race--to-the-Bottom: US Congressman Paul Ryan on the Prospects for a Tax Overhaul (22 Jun 2015)
Scotland Labour will 'scrap tax breaks for private schools' (22 Jun 2015)
UK Taxman steps up war on dodgers with more raids (22 Jun 2015)
Former UK Labour spin-doctor joins Tory tax commission (22 Jun 2015)
More asset managers become shadow banks (22 Jun 2015)
Unaccountable Government: Gove plans freedom of information crackdown (22 Jun 2015)
The Financial Resource Curse (22 Jun 2015)
Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice: coming events (19 Jun 2015)
New OECD report backs TJN’s Finance Curse research (19 Jun 2015)
10 Reasons Why an Intergovernmental UN Tax Body Will Benefit Everyone (19 Jun 2015)
The UK is defending tax abuse, not promoting ‘tax competition’ (19 Jun 2015)
The BEPS Monitoring Group – Comments on BEPS Action 8: Hard-to-Value Intangibles (19 Jun 2015)
Tip of the iceberg: the role of the banks in the FIFA story (19 Jun 2015)
An Extractive Affair: How one Australian mining company's tax dealings are costing the world's poorest country millions (19 Jun 2015)
OECD ECONOMIC POLICY PAPER: FINANCE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH (19 Jun 2015)
Towards Measuring Fair Tax Systems in Developing Countries (19 Jun 2015)
Bosses condemn EU plan to crack down on cross-border tax avoidance (19 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: Parliament not convinced by lacklustre commission EU tax proposals (19 Jun 2015)
UK to reject EU plans to combat multinational tax avoidance (19 Jun 2015)
Limitations on Interest Deductions: A Suggested Perspective for Developing Countries by Michael Durst (19 Jun2015)
Follow the money: inside the world's tax havens (19 Jun 2015)
Australia Tax avoidance inquiry calls on nine 'big pharma' bosses to explain tax contribution (19 Jun 2015)
Citigroup to shift European retail banking base to Dublin (19 Jun 2015)
Guernsey outraged by its inclusion on EU tax blacklist (19 Jun 2015)
Agreement in Buenos Aires on need for public registries of beneficial ownership (18 Jun 2015)
Tax abuse goes on and on and on (18 Jun 2015)
It’s time the UK government came clean on the tax gap (18 Jun 2015)
European Commission half measures will exacerbate profit shifting (18 Jun 2015)
The EU says its getting tough on tax, but isn’t (18 Jun 2015)
UBS Tax Evasion Network in Latin America Revealed (18 Jun 2015)
Tax haven blacklist omits Luxembourg as Brussels announces reform plans (18 Jun 2015)
Margaret Thatcher's papers donated in lieu of £1 million in inheritance tax (18 Jun 2015)
Margaret Thatcher papers given to Cambridge college in lieu of inheritance tax (18 Jun 2015)
Should buy-to-let lose mortgage interest tax break? (18 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: Europe's biggest business group rejects pan-European tax system (18 Jun 2015)
EU Seeks Transaction Tax as 11 States Meet in Bid to Choose Path (18 Jun 2015)
Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules (18 Jun 2015)
What a suprise - ICAEW, the moutpiece of the big accounting firms does not like CCCTB: EC's CCCTB relaunch questioned (18 Jun 2015)
Walmart hid $76bn of assets in foreign tax havens, new study claims (18 Jun 2015)
EU announces tax action crackdown on big multinationals, tax haven blacklist (18 Jun 2015)
Jamaica A Surprise Suitor As HSBC Reviews HQ (18 Jun 2015)
Hey Walmart, it’s time to pay your taxes (17 Jun 2015)
Shell wants to keep the tax world as it is – unsurprisingly (17 Jun 2015)
There’s still a lot to do on Base Erosion and Profits Shifting (17 Jun 2015)
Key Points on Tax Issues for G20 Sherpas Meeting June 2015 G20 and OECD must act to prevent failure of the BEPS project (17 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: EU Resurrects Bid to Agree Common Rules for Corporate Taxation (17 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: EU Commission launches public consultation on corporate tax transparency (17 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: EU Public consultation on further corporate tax transparency (17 Jun 2015)
Questions and Answers on the CCCTB re-launch (17 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: Questions and Answers on the Action Plan for Fair and Efficient Corporate Taxation in the EU (17 Jun 2015)
CCCTB: Commission presents Action Plan for Fair and Efficient Corporate Taxation in the EU (17 Jun 2015)
EU Commission lists Hong Kong, Barbados, Panama, Andorra, Guernsey, Liechtenstein and Monaco as “noncooperative” tax havens (17 Jun 2015)
Report from Austria: TAX AVOIDANCE, TAX EVASION AND TAX HAVENS (17 Jun 2015)
We should seek EU-wide tax rules on multinationals (17 Jun 2015)
Brussels to announce measures against corporations' 'sweetheart' tax deals (17 Jun 2015)
Wal-Mart Has $76 Billion in Overseas Tax Havens, Report Says (17 Jun 2015)
The Walmart Web: How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes (17 Jun 2015)
Report: The Walmart Web: How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes (17 Jun 2015)
A Billion-Dollar Bank Fraud in Moldova, and 20,000 Opaque British Corporations (17 Jun 2015)
First multinationals warn over being hit by Osborne's 'Google tax' (17 Jun 2015)
French Tax Authorities to Look to Airbnb and Other Online Businesses (17 Jun 2015)
Swiss investigating 53 cases of possible money laundering at Fifa (17 Jun 2015)
Downing Street accused of deliberate attempt to avoid freedom of information requests (17 Jun 2015)
EU Commission welcomes agreement on improving transparency of certain financial transactions in the shadow banking sector (17 Jun 2015)
Britain blocks international tax reform (16 Jun 2015
U.S. Treasury Department report found that about $300 billion is laundered through the U.S. every year (16 Jun 2015)
HSBC, JPMorgan may move parts of businesses to Luxembourg (16 Jun 2015)
Skimping tax can still leave a bitter taste for coffee companies (16 Jun 2015)
Former Chief Executive Officer of Oil Services Company Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery Charge (16 Jun 2015)
Former oil exec pleads guilty in Colombian bribery case (16 Jun 2015)
Illusions of Social Responsibility: Shell warns of trade threat posed by tax uncertainty (16 Jun 2015)
Cantillon: Big names begin to shift on tax avoidance (16 Jun 2015)
HMRC wins £16m in tax avoidance case against Santander (16 Jun 2015)
HMRC wins millions from Abbey National avoidance case (16 Jun 2015)
Court Judgment in Cater Allen International Limited and Abbey National Treasury Services Plc v THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS (16 Jun 2015)
Kuwait to consider local and foreign corporate tax rate harmonisation (16 Jun 2015)
Q&A Interview: More reporting for treasurers if governments comply with BEPS (16 Jun 2015)
Soco chief under fire over reports oil firm 'violently intimidated opponents of exploration (16 Jun 2015)
The politics of country-by-country reporting (15 Jun 2015)
Juncker invites himself to Luxleaks hearing (15 Jun 2015)
HMRC is under resourced – and it’s accountants saying so (15 Jun 2015)
People want fairer taxes – even high-income earners believe they pay too little (15 Jun 2015)
UK tax authorities pay record £605000 to informants (15 Jun 2015)
Chairs of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee set out a range of concerns about the BEPS process (15 Jun 2015)
Candidates' plans to repatriate profits only encourage corporate tax avoiders (15 Jun 2015)
Divisions in US over OECD corporate tax proposals (15 Jun 2015)
US companies regain their appetite for tax inversion deals (15 Jun 2015)
Australian miners campaign for NGOs to lose tax benefits (15 Jun 2015)
Draft guidance on who pays Scottish Rate of Income Tax (15 Jun 2015)
These US states have no income tax (15 Jun 2015)
TTIP and a travesty of transparency (15 Jun 2015)
Free markets aren't the success we're led to think (15 Jun 2015)
The fundamental accounting error in Osborne’s budget plans (12 Jun 2015)
Coming soon: Stop the Bleeding Campaign to end illicit financial flows from Africa (12 Jun 2015)
Please sign the Fair Tax Pledge (12 Jun 2015)
Spanish king strips sister of duchess title amid tax evasion scandal (12 Jun 2015)
Deutsche Bank raids 'related to tax evasion' (12 Jun 2015)
Overseas companies should pay windfall tax when buying UK firms (12 Jun 2015)
HMRC wins £16m in tax avoidance case against Santander (12 Jun 2015)
Brazil $800m money laundering network broken up (12 Jun 2015)
Nestle faces setback in KitKat trademark battle (12 Jun 2015)
Academics attack George Osborne budget surplus proposal (12 Jun 2015)
Osborne plan has no basis in economics (12 Jun 2015)
UK Tories consider cutting tax credits for working families despite election promise (12 Jun 2015)
Instead of laying off thousands of staff, HSBC should focus on becoming a model bank (11 Jun 2015)
Join the Global Week of Action for #TaxJustice, June 16-23 (11 Jun 2015)
KPMG Pendragon VAT scheme ruled abusive in Supreme Court (11 Jun 2015)
An Abusive KPMG Tax Avoidance Scheme Defeated: Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Pendragon plc and others; [2015] UKSC 37, On appeal from: [2013] EWCA Civ 868] (11 Jun 2015)
EU tax probes on Apple, Amazon, Starbucks at advanced stage: European Commission (11 Jun 2015)
American Express pays no tax on multibillion-dollar Australian operation for seven years (11 Jun 2015)
German Prosecutors Say Nine Suspects Targeted in Deutsche Bank Raids (11 Jun 2015)
Focus will be on how 'Scottish GAAR' anti-avoidance rule works in practice as devolved taxes take effect, says expert (11 Jun 2015)
Iceland: Tax Haven Tax Dodgers Under Fire (11 Jun 2015)
BBC bosses warned over tax break television scheme (11 Jun 2015)
MEPs vote to suspend TTIP debate in Strasbourg (11 Jun 2015)
Nuclear fuel tax case reverts to German courts (11 Jun 2015)
World Bank wants to stop anonymous firms winning contracts (11 Jun 2015)
Rich $2.35M Tax Write-Off For Lunch With Warren Buffett (11 Jun 2015)
Blow to aim of Scotland fiscal autonomy as North Sea oil tax forecast slashed (11 Jun 2015)
Kuwait to consider local and foreign corporate tax rate harmonisation (11 Jun 2015)
London cabbies start Uber tax campaign (11 Jun 2015)
George Osborne considering £5bn cuts to child tax credits (11 Jun 2015)
Austrian brothel offers free sex in tax protest (11 Jun 2015)
Should Nation States Compete? Discussion workshop final programme (10 Jun 2015)
In memoriam: FIFA’s stench kills free speech in Cayman (10 Jun 2015)
New Oxfam report: ‘Africa: Rising for the few’ (10 Jun 2015)
Christian Aid alarmed at G7 plan for compulsory tax arbitration (10 Jun 2015)
Gender and tax justice (10 Jun 2015)
BVI gives UK non-doms four more months to opt out of automatic reporting (10 Jun 2015)
MEPs regret that multinationals are “unable” to meet the Tax Rulings Committee (10 Jun 2015)
Germany under spotlight in EU-wide corporate taxation probe (10 Jun 2015)
Britain's £100bn-a-year money-laundering problem: out of 14,000 tip-offs, police acted forcefully on seven (10 Jun 2015)
Lionel Messi to face trial over alleged €4.1m tax fraud (10 Jun 2015)
Amazon among multinationals yielding to global tax crackdown (10 Jun 2015)
Vatican bank agrees to open its books to US tax authorities (10 Jun 2015)
Cayman Islands government pulls ads from newspaper over Fifa reporting (10 Jun 2015)
OECD BEPS Tax Project: Amazon books UK sales in UK; Australia proposes up to 100% in penalties (10 Jun 2015)
BEPS: Obama's Corporate Tax Blunder (10 Jun 2015)
Why pressure on BEPS is increasing (10 Jun 2015)
G7 to Clamp Down on Tax Avoidance Via Transfer Pricing (10 Jun 2015)
The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries (10 Jun 2015)
Swiss authorities seize Fifa material as 2026 bidding process suspended (10 Jun 2015)
Don't be fooled. The country needs and wants a honest debate about tax (10 Jun 2015)
Brits Say Big Firms Not Paying Fair Tax Bill (10 Jun 2015)
HSBC To Highlight Tax Stability In HQ Review (10 Jun 2015)
Revealed: how much tax the average UK pensioner pays each year (10 Jun 2015)
Luxembourg: the campaign on corporate tax has only just begun (9 Jun 2015)
Revealed: the video the Candy brothers' tax adviser didn't want you to see (9 Jun 2015)
G7 fails to stop the dirty money trail (9 Jun 2015)
Monsanto targets tax inversion strategy with Syngenta offer (9 Jun 2015)
Monsanto Pursues $500 Million U.S. Tax Cut With Syngenta Deal (9 Jun 2015)
G7 Leaders Move Toward Automatic Exchange of Tax Info (9 Jun 2015)
Monsanto plans to move headquarters from US to UK (9 Jun 2015)
Big companies not trusted on tax (9 Jun 2015)
Will Public Disclosure of Country-by-Country Reporting Become Mandatory (9 Jun 2015)
Iceland Warns Hedge Funds Not to Sue as Billions in Taxes Sought (9 Jun 2015)
David Cameron should start his crusade against corruption (9 Jun 2015)
Diaspora tax for Eritreans living in UK investigated by Metropolitan police (9 Jun 2015)
TJN in The Economist: on the precious corporate income tax (8 Jun 2015)
Tax reporting is improving slowly but is that despite the role of accountants? (8 Jun 2015)
Australia may try to exempt wealthy via scaremongering (8 Jun 2015)
OECD country-by-country reporting: Strangled at birth (8 Jun 2015)
OECD fails to deliver country-by-country reporting as required by the G8 (8 Jun 2015)
OECD releases Implementation Package for BEPS country-by-country reporting (8 Jun 2015)
OECD BEPS Action 13: Country-by-Country Reporting Implementation Package (8 Jun 2015)
Eurodad: Statement to the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (8 Jun 2015)
Shock horror, the prosperous join Marxists, anarchists, Blockupy and other radicals, as thousands protest at the G7 summit (8 Jun 2015)
State aid: EU Commission orders Estonia and Poland to deliver missing information on tax practices; requests tax rulings from 15 Member States (8 Jun 2015)
Germany, France Targeted as EU Chases Tax-Loophole Data (8 Jun 2015)
The Guardian view on paying tax: a contribution to the common good (8 Jun 2015)
Fifa corruption: Documents show details of Jack Warner 'bribes' (8 Jun 2015)
HSBC money-laundering procedures 'have flaws too bad to be revealed' (8 Jun 2015)
An 'Ethics Gap' Between Financial Services And Its Customers (8 Jun 2015)
Patent Tax Dodge: Why the Patent Box Does Not Answer America’s Need for Tax Reform (8 Jun 2015)
Britain prepares to review bank tax to stop potential exodus (8 Jun 2015)
U.K. Banks Seek Tax Review as HSBC Threatens to Leave London (8 Jun 2015)
Deutsche Bank investigating possible moneylaundering by Russian clients (8 Jun 2015)
Trade agreements like TiSA, TPP and TTIP will sideline national laws, Wikileaks says (8 Jun 2015)
Mauritius regains top slot as source of FDI in India (8 Jun 2015)
More tax havens to share black money data with India (8 Jun 2015)
US IRS loses appeal in offshore reinsurance tax case (8 Jun 2015)
Will Public Disclosure of Country-by-Country Reporting Data Become Mandatory? (8 Jun 2015)
UK Corporation tax 'will not drop any further', Treasury Minister (8 Jun 2015)
The whole of Britain should be a tax haven (8 Jun 2015)
Norwegian Parliament votes for public registry of ownership (5 Jun 2015)
HSBC, money-laundering and Swiss regulatory deterrence (5 Jun 2015)
Charlotte Church says she would pay tax at 70% to protect public services (5 Jun 2015)
End transnationals' $212 billion tax dodge on poorest countries (5 Jun 2015)
HSBC's Swiss compensation – not much for the bank but a big deal for Geneva (5 Jun 2015)
EU probe into Apple's Ireland tax affairs nears end (5 Jun 2015)
Alan Bond: Australia's weak spot for the man behind the biggest heist in history (5 Jun 2015)
Elche relegated from La Liga because of unpaid tax debts (5 Jun 2015)
Blatter was board member for Irish ‘ghost’ company that reaped tax benefits, laundered money (5 Jun 2015)
Banks and money-laundering - A fearful number: A bank rejects American accusations that it abetted financial crime (5 Jun 2015)
Households must pay higher VAT on insulation and solar panels, EU rules (5 Jun 2015)
Adventures in Unitary Taxation: BARCLAYS BANK PLC, Petitioner, v. FRANCHISE TAX BOARD OF CALIFORNIA. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FRANCHISE TAX BOARD OF CALIFORNIA (5 Jun 2015)
Unitary Taxation Archives: Barclays and Colgate lose US tax case: Supreme Court says California has right to demand that companies pay on earnings outside the state (5 Jun 2015)
UK Supreme Court throws out Fonecomp VAT appeal (5 Jun 2015)
Read judgement in Fonecomp Limited v The Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (5 Jun 2015)
Mining lobby calls for some green groups to lose tax-deductible status (5 Jun 2015)
The fur is starting to fly in Jersey (4 Jun 2015)
Luxleaks whistle-blower Deltour wins broad support in European Parliament (4 Jun 2015)
Luxleaks committee to be extended until October (4 Jun 2015)
HSBC to pay $43 million Geneva money laundering settlement (4 Jun 2015)
'Selfish' Caffé Nero roasted for tax avoidance, after reporting £20 mn profit (4 Jun 2015)
Caffe Nero makes £1.2bn in sales but hasn't paid corporation tax since 2007 (4 Jun 2015)
US Fines Pacific Island Casino Operator $75 Million for Anti-Money-Laundering Violations (4 Jun 2015)
As the rich become super-rich, they pay lower taxes. (4 Jun 2015)
Thailand To Tackle Tax Avoidance On Imported Cars (4 Jun 2015)
WikiLeaks releases documents related to controversial US trade pact (4 Jun 2015)
Businessman Sentenced in New York Federal Court for $53 Million Tax Scheme and Massive Fraud that Involved Bribery of Bank Officials (4 Jun 2015)
Fifa informant Chuck Blazer: I took bribes over 1998 and 2010 World Cups (4 Jun 2015)
Fifa 'paid FAI to stop legal action over Henry's World Cup handball' (4 Jun 2015)
Stop Paying the Queen With My Taxes (3 Jun 2015)
Tax haven: Belgium to blacklist Luxembourg (3 Jun 2015)
JPMorgan Chase mortgage banker sentenced for bribery, tax evasion (3 Jun 2015)
Malaysia tax haven Labuan to position itself as Islamic finance hub (3 Jun 2015)
Waiter, There's a Tax Dodge in My Soup (3 Jun 2015)
Mass tax avoidance chokes Pakistan (3 Jun 2015)
International commission calls for corporate tax reform (2 Jun 2015)
Declaration: of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (2 Jun 2015)
Development MEPs call for action to target tax evasion in developing countries (2 Jun 2015)
Global tax reform panel calls for 'radical shake-up' of rules (2 Jun 2015)
End Companies' Tax-Haven Shell Games, Panel Says ( 2 Jun 2015)
Rights groups reject OECD approach on corporate tax avoidance (2 Jun 2015)
Public shaming could help EU to pass tax laws (2 Jun 2015)
Global tax system in need of updating (2 Jun 2015)
CCCTB Misprepresented: Plan for pan-European tax system dismissed by UK government (2 Jun 2015)
Tax dodging by big firms 'robs poor countries of billions of dollars a year' (2 Jun 2015)
Belgium targets £390m in unpaid tax as HSBC considers job cuts (2 Jun 2015)
Australia: Pharmaceutical companies called on to explain tiny tax contribution (2 Jun 2015)
Why the UK has the least resilient financial system in the G7 (2 Jun 2015)
Clarín, 'vultures' tax haven link (2 Jun 2015)
'Tax free childcare': UK Families with an income of up to £300000 to benefit from tax relief scheme (2 Jun 2015)
Convicted Of Tax Evasion, Poker Chip CEO Faced 10 Years, Got 10 Months (2 Jun 2015)
UK Green tax raised DOUBLES in 20 years to £44.6billion (2 Jun 2015)
French philosopher and Swedish tax chief among EU 89 banned by Russia (2 Jun 2015)
MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF US TREASURY SECURITIES (2 Jun 2015)
World No Tobacco Day: Marching to Big Tobacco’s tune? (1 Jun 2015)
UK offshore tax havens at heart of US investigation into World Cup corruption (1 Jun 2015)
Non-dom status claimed by 800 UK-born taxpayers living in Britain (1 Jun 2015)
Ten years on, anger grows as UK tax breaks still boost buy-to-let (1 Jun 2015)
One in six of the world’s largest companies are either based in a tax haven or have a majority-owned subsidiary in a haven (1 Jun 2015)
Co-operative Bank struck deal with former parent enabling it to escape clampdown on tax losses later unveiled by Chancellor (1 Jun 2015)
Sharp fall in average jail sentence for UK criminal tax evaders (1 Jun 2015)
More UK tax evaders going to jail but prison terms are falling (1 Jun 2015)
Plus500 shifts trading to Cyprus after being forced to suspend 25000 UK accounts over money laundering concerns (1 Jun 2015)
British banks launch internal investigations into Fifa corruption (1 Jun 2015)
HMRC targets Etsy, eBay and Gumtree sellers – but when is your hobby taxable? (1 Jun 2015)
Shadow banks grab record US loans share (1 Jun 2015)
RBS considers bid for Granite mortgage portfolio (1 Jun 2015)
UK Government takes even more of our cash - despite falling state spending (1 Jun 2015)
Fines amnesty for late UK tax returns (1 Jun 2015)
Unitary Taxation in the Extractive Industry Sector (1 Jun 2015)
Tax havens are still a desirable destination (1 Jun 2015)
Tampon tax scrapped in Canada after petition convinces conservative government (1 Jun 2015)

MAY 2015

Rich man, poor man: the two-nation policies of the Conservative government (29 May 2015)
How Goldman Sachs distorts sports via tax cheating (29 May 2015)
Anderson Group: Tax avoidance takes a new twist using thousands of limited companies (29 May 2015)
The other FIFA scandal: poor countries and the tax-free bubble (29 May 2015)
BBC uncovers 'aggressive' tax avoidance scheme at Anderson Group (29 May 2015)
Elite group of British-born residents enjoy 'non-dom' tax haven (29 May 2015)
Money-laundering check scandal surrounding City spread betting and trading firms deepens as ETX Capital hit by allegations it dumbed down rules (29 May 2015)
Barclays and HSBC 'handled suspected cash' in FIFA corruption scandal (29 May 2015)
UK Government urged to slash number of tax relief schemes (29 May 2015)
Italian tax clampdown dims the sparkle at Bulgari (29 May 2015)
HMRC promises crackdown on 'highly aggressive' tax avoidance scheme (29 May 2015)
Four banks settle in US tax evasion scheme (29 May 2015)
Expo president in €1m tax evasion probe (29 May 2015)
TTIP: MEPs in new EU-US trade controversy over courts (29 May 2015)
The Tax Justice Network Podcast, May 2015 (28 May 2015)
Stiglitz to tax haven UK: you are aiding and abetting theft (28 May 2015)
Four Banks (Société Générale Private Banking (Lugano-Svizzera), MediBank, LBBW-Schweiz, Scobag Privatbank) Reach Resolutions Under US Department of Justice Swiss Bank Program (28 May 2015)
US reaches deals with four more banks under Swiss program (28 May 2015)
Apple: Europe's 'CCCTB' Won't End Probe of Ireland Ops, Says JP Morgan (28 May 2015)
ECJ clarifies German case on investment fund lump-sum taxation (28 May 2015)
Fifa scandal: What took Switzerland so long to investigate? (28 May 2015)
U.S. Probes Bank Links in FIFA Marketing Corruption Scandal l (28 May 2015)
Nike becomes suspected player in alleged $150 million FIFA bribery scandal (28 May 2015)
The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction (27 May 2015)
EU outlines plans to make multinationals pay their share of tax (27 May 2015)
EU considering mandatory corporate tax base (27 May 2015)
EU Commission prepares an Action Plan for fairer and more growth-friendly tax systems in Europe (27 May 2015)
There's nothing in the Queen's Speech to tackle tax avoidance, despite manifesto promises (27 May 2015)

Bulgari brothers to face trial on tax evasion charges (27 May 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill (27 May 2015)
Julius Baer May Get Lighter US Penalty (27 May 2015)
Vodafone defends corporation tax avoidance despite £41m profits (27 May 2015)
Tax evasion: EU-Switzerland sign deal 'to end banking secrecy' (27 May 2015)
Nine FIFA Officials and Five Corporate Executives Indicted for Racketeering Conspiracy and Corruption (27 May 2015)
Fifa officials pocketed $150m from 'World Cup of fraud' – US prosecutors (27 May 2015)
'Tampon tax' paid around the world (27 May 2015)
SEC Charges Deutsche Bank (audited by KPMG) With Misstating Financial Reports During Financial Crisis (27 May 2015)
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ORDER: In the Matter of DEUTSCHE BANK AG (27 May 2015)
Firms to be hit with new tax for hiring foreign workers instead of young Brits (27 May 2015)
Amazon agrees pay UK tax ending Luxembourg deal (27 May 2015)
Amazon tax probe will go ahead, EU warns (27 May 2015)
Amazon to curb Luxembourg tax schemes: a sign of things to come? (26 May 2015)
Banks' profits recover, but they are paying less in corporation tax (26 May 2015)
How clamping down on tax avoidance can unlock billions for development (26 May 2015)
Switzerland Publishes Tax Evader List (26 May 2015)
Foreign taxpayers named by Switzerland (26 May 2015)
France and Germany behind plans for 'common EU corporation tax' (26 May 2015)
Corporate Welfare: UK Landlords enjoy £14bn tax breaks as figures reveal buy-to-let expansion (26 May 2015)
Greece mulls bank ATM levy to fight tax evasion (26 May 2015)
ANZ's bid to curb foreign tax exposure (26 May 2015)
A Global Economy Needs an Offshore Industry (26 May 2015)
Tax credits change 'key to EU renegotiation' (26 May 2015)
Tax reform is doomed, say KPMG bosses (26 May 2015)
China cuts import taxes to boost consumer demand (26 May 2015)
Amazon Changes Tax Practices in Europe Amid Investigations (25 May 2015)
Amazon to begin paying corporation tax on UK retail sales (25 May 2015)
Amazon to Stop Funneling European Sales Through Low-Tax Haven (25 May 2015)
French police to probe death of Russian tax fraud whisteblower 'assassinated' during Paris trip (25 May 2015)
Tax Multinationals' Excess Cash (25 May 2015)
Barclays paid star trader £170m in five years following financial crisis (25 May 2015)
Alabama's dilemma: choosing between gambling or taxes to plug budget deficit (25 May 2015)
Former Israeli leader Ehud Olmert jailed for eight months for corruption (25 May 2015)
Maine House backs bill targeting offshore tax havens (25 May 2015)
Unitary Taxation: Tax Base and the Role of Accounting (22 May 2015)
The ultimate owners of companies will have to be listed in central registers in EU countries, open both to the authorities and to people (22 May 2015)
Isle of Man tax haven accidentally leaks personal details of hundreds of taxpayers (22 May 2015)
UK Minister warns food industry could face 'sugar tax' (22 May 2015)
A sugar tax is simply a tax on the poor (22 May 2015)
SPECIAL REPORT-Britain's home-grown tax haven (22 May 2015)
UK 'non-doms' and their British offshore firms (22 May 2015)
Tougher EU rules on money laundering to fight tax evasion and terrorist financing (22 May 2015)
A senseless tax subsidy: Most Western economies sweeten the cost of borrowing. That is a bad idea. (22 May 2015)
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to fight £1bn tax bill as settlement is torn up (22 May 2015)
The Ostrich Position: US tech boss denies Republic considered a tax haven (22 May 2015)
Farewell, Margaret Hodge (21 May 2015)
On Margaret Hodge and the PAC (21 May 2015)
Alan Rusbridger: press can't afford to cover corruption and tax avoidance (21 May 2015)
Lux Leaks Scandal. Juncker Gets A Step Closer to Hot Seat (21 May 2015)
Africa Loses US$50 Billion to Multinational Firms Annually (21 May 2015)
Mbeki blasts multinationals for illegally moving billions out of Africa (21 May 2015)
EU parliament cracks down on shell firms (21 May 2015)
Margaret Hodge stands aside as head of spending watchdog (21 May 2015)
Australia Tax avoidance inquiry to request pharmaceutical companies explain money transfers (21 May 2015)
F1's Ecclestone in legal challenge over £1bn tax move (21 May 2015)
Bribery and Corruption: SEC Charges BHP Billiton With Violating FCPA at Olympic Games (21 May 2015)
UK Tax relief on pensions is a scandal: this is how George Osborne could fix it (21 May 2015)
BHP Billiton charged, fined $US25m for China Olympics anti-bribery violation (21 May 2015)
Deutsche Bank Suspends Moscow Traders (21 May 2015)
Scandals and regulation lead to an auditing merry-go-round (20 May 2015)
The Offshore Wrapper: a week in tax justice #60 (20 May 2015)
Bill Gates: corporate tax rates at 35% won’t stop the innovators (20 May 2015)
Will corporate tax abuse end? (20 May 2015)
Financial Secrecy Index: new academic paper (20 May 2015)
McDonald's avoided A$500M tax over five years, 'Golden Dodges' report finds (20 May 2015)
How McDonald's dodged half a billion dollars in Australian tax (20 May 2015)
Australia Tax boss backs laws on tax avoidance (20 May 2015)
Nordea, Handelsbanken fined over money laundering breaches (20 Mar 2015)
Yahoo's Tax-Free Plans for Alibaba Stake Clouded by IRS (20 May 2015)