Finance Minister Paula Cox signed tax information-sharing agreements with eight countries yesterday — and then said Bermuda’s inclusion on the OECD’s tax transparency “grey list” was “misleading”.
“The complaint of money being transferred to foreign banks in Switzerland has been subject to investigations by top-notch agencies including the Directorate Revenue Intelligence (DRI),” said Congress candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal, while reacting to the allegations made by Bharatiya Janata Party that an amount of ‘Rs 70,000 lakh crore’ has been stacked away in Swiss banks.
The Legislative Yuan yesterday approved amendments allowing the government to freeze accounts suspected by the United Nations of usage for terrorism or money laundering.
IT HAS been called the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery. And, as with slavery before abolition, it is so widely accepted that for years it has excited little or no comment.
Corruption isn’t an issue that Jacob Zuma, the current president of the African National Congress — South Africa’s liberation party — is particularly enthusiastic about.
A new report detailing how mining companies hide behind the secrecy of their contracts to evade tax, denying Tanzania and other mineral-rich African countries millions of dollars in revenue was unveiled yesterday.
The UK has failed to join a new international crackdown on financial secrecy and tax havens by more than 50 countries, including Germany, France and Spain – part of a package of measures to restore the world’s economy to health.
President-elect Barack Obama plans to crack down on international tax havens, including Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, within weeks of taking power in January, putting him on a collision course with Gordon Brown.
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