05/09/2016
Panama Papers update
Latest Panama Papers news
05/09/2016
Panama Papers update
Latest Panama Papers news
05/09/2016
The Panama Papers, reputational risk and crisis communications
Jason MacKenzie, managing director of PR specialists Liquid, gives an expert view
05/09/2016
Panama Tries Persuading the World It Isn't a Tax Haven
The leak has touched off a nationalist outburst in Panama.
05/09/2016
Panama Papers Source Cites 'Income Inequality' Behind Leak
Banks, financial regulators and tax authorities have failed.
05/09/2016
NZ At Heart of Panama Money-Go-Round
New Zealand is at the heart of a tangled web of secretive shelf companies and obscure trusts being used by well-heeled South Americans to organise their private wealth, business affairs, and channel their funds around the world.
05/09/2016
Panama Papers: Jersey firm sees merit in using NZ for 'wealth management'
JTC announced a "strategic alliance" with Malaysia-based Kensington Trust in 2013 which also helps establish foreign trusts in New Zealand.
05/09/2016
Here's what 300 top economists told the UK about tax havens
The UK has sovereignty over around a third of the world's tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, the economists say.
05/06/2016
‘Wealthy Will Still Find A Way’ To Shelter Money Offshore
Panama has been the focus of relentless critical attention since the leak of documents from the law firm Mossack Fonseca.
05/06/2016
Taxman wants Royal Bank’s Panama Papers client list
Minister of National Revenue seeks to compel RBC to provide information on clients with links to Panamanian law firm at heart of global offshore tax-haven scandal.
05/06/2016
Panama Papers: US launches crackdown on international tax evasion
Barack Obama is taking executive action to close loopholes used by foreigners in US, White House announces
05/06/2016
Editorial: Whither Jamaica’s Plan For Offshore Services?
Mr Crawford based his optimism on what has been accomplished by other offshore centres, in particularly Bermuda.
05/06/2016
Iceland’s First Lady speaks out on offshore speculation
I have never had a bank account with HSBC nor have I been a client of that bank
05/05/2016
Tech giants in crosshairs as Aussie govt redoubles tax chase
ATO powers beefed up.
05/05/2016
Separating fact from tax-haven fiction
The onus is now very much on us and the firms that Bermuda hosts to ramp up our international lobbying and public relations efforts.
05/05/2016
S'pore may now focus on 1MDB's Cayman investments
The authorities are probing "complex and layered transactions" with "cross-border elements" involving many shell companies in their investigations into 1MDB, said Singapore's chief prosecutor Tan Ken Hwee.
05/04/2016
U.N. says firms channeled $221 billion to low tax entities in 2015
Investment flows to offshore financial centers, chiefly the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, were $72 billion, roughly in line with historical averages, the report said.
05/04/2016
Bermuda and international transparency drive
Since the introduction of Fatca Bermuda has seen the roll-out of the UK’s version, largely known as “CDOT” or “UK Fatca”
05/04/2016
KPMG to committee: dodgy Isle of Man tax scheme a thing of the past
Times change and we do too,” Wiebe told members of the House of Commons Finance Committee Tuesday, adding that KPMG does not “deal with clients that engage in tax evasion.
05/04/2016
How world's big money sails to offshore investment hubs: UN report nails Panama model
The leaks from the database of world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca, shows that it acts for about 300,000 companies spread across the world.
05/04/2016
Panama Papers: Head of Lithuania’s Central Bank Linked to Offshore Accounts
The three were authorized to open bank accounts at the Lithuanian branch of the Swedish bank Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB and to perform other actions related to opening the account.