04/13/2016
EU seeks tougher tax rules after offshore accounts scandal
The Commission says it would affect some 6,000 companies but socialist legislators estimated it would affect less than 2,000 multinationals.
Tax
04/13/2016
Tamper with tax havens at your peril
Global financial centres facilitate trade, investment and economic growth, writes Richard Hay
04/13/2016
Offshore’ has become synonymous with murky dealings. That’s not fair - Nigel Green
The overwhelming majority of the offshore sector provides products and services that are entirely compliant and legal and are used by law-abiding people.
04/12/2016
SocGen chief to testify to French senate on Panama Papers
French bank was a prolific creator of offshore companies
04/12/2016
Offshore vehicles not to be used for illicit acts: MAS
Secret documents leaked a week ago from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed a complex network of offshore entities set up by public figures to stash away their fortune for tax avoidance.
04/12/2016
KOREA: SK Has Most Companies In Offshore Tax Havens
SK Group, the nation’s third-largest conglomerate, has the most offshore companies in tax havens
04/12/2016
India, Maldives Sign Pact To Curb Tax Evasion
India and Maldives signed two agreements for exchange of information with respect to taxes, and for avoidance of double taxation of income derived from international air transport.
04/11/2016
My brief career as an Indian Ocean tax pirate
How easy is it to set up in one of the world’s favourite tax havens?
04/11/2016
Panama Papers: Bermuda mentioned in UK media
The article explains that blind trusts are used to prevent ministers from using their positions from influencing their own investments, but also keeps their financial affairs private.
04/11/2016
David Cameron's Panama Papers Show How Little Offshore Tax Dodging Is Going On
The reason for this is that as we can see, the income from David Cameron’s offshore foray was in fact all declared and tax paid on it, justly and righteously.
04/11/2016
How a US president and JP Morgan made Panama: and turned it into a tax haven
In 1903 the US bullied Colombia into giving up the province that became Panama. The plan was to create a nation to serve the interests of Wall Street
04/11/2016
Swiss finance minister offers defence for rich caught up in Panama Papers
Four decades of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in setting up offshore companies and has offices in Zurich and Geneva, showed widespread use of those instruments by global banks and triggered investigations around the
04/11/2016
India seeks to restart talks with Panama on TIEA to dig up dirty money
The Panama Papers were released earlier this week. The details were made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
04/11/2016
KPMG introduced speech by CRA chief as firm faced offshore tax probe
Revenue Canada boss vowed crackdown on offshore schemes as agency was in secret talks to give amnesty
04/11/2016
Billionaire Tax Cheat Olenicoff: `I've Moved Up In The World' With Panama Papers
Forbes 400 member Igor Olenicoff, who pleaded guilty in 2007 to the felony of lying on his federal tax return about $200 million he kept hidden offshore for years.
04/11/2016
Samoa govt defends oversight of offshore trusts
The Samoa government issued a statement on Monday night saying ten licensed trustee companies, including Mossack Foseca, currently operate under its international financial centre.
04/11/2016
ABN Amro helps clients hide assets in tax havens, Dutch media claim
The Panama Papers show ABN Amro has at least six subsidiaries which operate as nominal shareholders.
04/11/2016
Swiss banks face scrutiny over Panama Papers
Switzerland is the world's largest center for offshore wealth, with Boston Consulting Group estimating that around $2.5 trillion in foreign assets was kept with the country's banks in 2014.
04/08/2016
Hong Kong's Bermuda Bent
That attitude isn't unique among the city's businesses.
04/08/2016
Call for direct rule of British overseas territories 'absurd', says Cayman Islands minister
Corbyn was reacting to a massive leak from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which had registered more than 100,000 secret firms in the British Virgin Islands.