Border Bigwig Peter Docwra gives up his job
For Whitehall, NAO is using strong language. Serious alarm bells. Even for those not already alarmed by the words "large Govt IT project". https://t.co/73NPtydL59
The UK’s spending watchdog has warned the Government’s post-Brexit IT system for customs is heading for a “horror show” that could risk £34bn of public income [ National Audit Office Warns of Brexit Customs IT Train Wreck….Nine Months After Naked Capitalism]
Post-Panama Papers sunlight on New Zealand Trusts
If you ever wondered what kind of response to a financial transparency law might indicate a corrupted financial secrecy industry, look no further. We reported recently on what’s been happening to trusts in New Zealand in our Offshore Wrapper (our weekly take on tax justice news – for which you can sign up here, don’t miss out). First, here’s what our very own George Turner reported on about a month ago, followed by interesting updates:
Recent figures released by the New Zealand government show users and abusers of trusts abandoning the country after it implemented transparency laws to regulate the trust industry.New Zealand trusts have built up a particularly good reputation amongst offshore service providers for their ability to hide assets. They’ve been called the “Fort Knox of asset protection”.
Anonymous Companies
Oxfam has just published this briefing paper on the tax avoidance practices of multinational consumer goods giant RB. As they rightly point out, the paper demonstrates the deep flaws in the global system of rules on taxing MNCsThe Continuum: Corruption Did Not Start With The Guptas And Zuma
British PR firm Bell Pottinger apologizes for South Africa campaign
Mobile hacking
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Sydney man charged over alleged $1.8 million fraud
Beware! You're being spied on. By your phone
Google is funding a new software project that will automate writing local news Recode. That really is evil.
Celeste Headlee 10 ways to have a better conversation
Why did Chris Uhlmann's report on Donald Trump go viral?
As a crowdsourced information platform, Wikipedia has had to "work to earn the trust of the public every day," says Wikimedia Foundation leader Katherine Maher. Sound familiar? Maher, who spoke at Global Fact 4 today in Madrid, has some advice for fact-checkers on creating a transparent, useful and sustainable process. Read the story on Poynter.
This free tool will tell you what the internet thinks of your work
What can fact-checkers learn from Wikipedia? We asked the boss of its nonprofit owner
You think Chris Christie’s beach photos were great? Just wait until drone journalism really takes off
- Google Faces $1.3 Billion French Ruling Amid `Tax Populism'
- The ripple effects of Trump's alternative minimum tax repeal
- Singapore Banker Admits Money Laundering in 1MDB-Linked Case
- Panama Papers: Germany 'pays millions' for leaked data
- Panama Papers: Pakistan Supreme Court takes action after probe panel's report
- 'Crooks' using Aust stocks to launder cash
- EU court decision opens path to taxation of Catholic schools in Spain
- How big tobacco has survived death and taxes
- Police hunt wine boss over £45m tax dodge
- Poland Plans to Increase Tax on Fuels Amid Social-Spending Drive
- FCA publishes interim findings of study into retirement income market
- FCA Interim Report - Retirement Outcomes Review: Interim Repor
- UK Savers could have lost £230bn in Brown’s pensions raid
- Some UK offshore entities' beneficial ownership registries start date pushed back
- National Insurance tax hit for UK gig economy firms
Abolishing cash-in-hand jobs 'would raise £6bn in tax and benefit workers' - Thousands of UK pensioners pay too much tax
- Seattle introduces new tax targeting city's wealthiest residents
UK Chancellor urged to recover money lost from recruitment sector tax avoidance - McKinsey drawn into South Africa's Gupta business scandal
- Billionaire F1 racing boss dubbed the 'King of Good Times' faces money laundering charges
- France to push ahead with tax cuts in 2018 after Macron overrules PM
- Foreign governments increasingly rely on HMRC
- Del Monte denies tax evasion raps
- OECD publishes updated transfer pricing guidelines
- OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations 2017
- Taylor Review: UK should end cash-in-hand economy
- Taylor Review: All work in UK economy should be fair
- Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices
- National Insurance tax hit for UK gig economy firms
- G20: Pressure rising on tax haven USA
- Recruitment advisers' tax scheme liquidated after HMRC asks questions
- A crackdown on financial crime means global banks are derisking
- Danish Government publishes report on considering company's tax position in public tende
- Europe must claim tax due from US giants: France
- Pink Tablets Take Their Toll: The UK has led the charge for a fairer worldwide tax landscape
- HMRC Punblishes list of Current list of deliberate tax defaulters
- HMRC: Property business tops tax defaulter list owing £4.5m
- Ending austerity means increasing taxes or deficit, warns thinktank
- Tax is 'too hot to tackle' in the gig economy probe, top accountants fear
- Latvian Bank Fined €80 million for Money Laundering, Will Appeal
- HMRC: Yet another case concerning Accelerated Payment Notices (‘APNs‘)
- Rise in number of foreign government requests for HMRC tax evasion assistance
- Ecuador Approves Tax Haven Law As Opposition Breaks Alliance
- SEC Files Fraud Charges in Bitcoin and Office Space Investment Schemes
- Corporation tax plan to make life easier for small companies
President Trump peddled ‘fake news’ at Warsaw press conference, says CNN’s Jim Acosta
This century-old law could let President Trump go after reporters
Welsh
government asks public for tax ideas
CCH, 4/7/17. The Welsh government is
canvassing the public’s opinions for ideas for potential new Welsh taxes, and
says it will publish a list of possible options which have been put forward in
the autumn.
The
next NSW Treasury secretary is... Mike Pratt. The coveted role with
the nation's most envied surplus will go to the state's Customer Service
Commissioner, and continues the emerging trend that top-level private sector
experience is a must-have for key public sector jobs
Exceptionally rare ‘pale tiger’ photographed in the wild Guardian. Very handsome
Tampa Bay Times’ CEO on refinancing debt and accepting money from anonymous lenders
Now CBD would not want anyone to think that our attendance record at university was spotless. This is no doubt ... pretty obvious to our regular readers. However as an arts student the whole wide world is one's classroom, including the pub. We did think though that the kids heading single file in matching jumpers to the business school were much better at the nuts and bolts elements of university like turning up to class Empty lecture classes