UK House of Commons Debate: Tax Avoidance and Evasion

The Oldest Company in Almost Every Country (That is Still in Business) Business Financing. Fittingly, Australian Post is the oldest company in Australia ... note that the oldest company in the United States is a plantation

Sadly, my great grandfather's pub and mill business did not survive the communist confiscations in Europe back in 1948 (The year Orwell penned and punned his 1984) ... However, even the communist could not touch his land which contains rich and healing hot springs ...


AI as ‘ultimate auditor?’ Congress praises IRS’ adoption of emerging tech

Contractors handling Australia's sensitive diplomatic mail dismissed for alleged misconduct

Federal bodies struggle to exit Chinese-owned data centre

U.S. charges two Chinese nationals in North Korea cryptocurrency scheme

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton will meet security ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance in Wash­ington on Thursday, in a bid to finalise a global agreement that would force Facebook and Google to help shut down live streaming and sharing of child sex abuse.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton will meet security ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance in Wash­ington 



EXCLUSIVE: FRC outlines plans for radical Big Four separation

The regulator is aiming for an operational split of audit practices by 2022 in major carve-up of firms. Sara White reports 

• Longtime “Inside the Actors Studio” host James Lipton died Monday at the age of 93. Jo Craven McGinty has a superb obit (and perfect ending) in The New York Times.
• An oldie but a goodie: From February 2013, David Owen’s story from The New Yorker about “The Rise of Purell” — especially interesting these days as people are loading up on hand sanitizer.
• Sunday’s “60 Minutes” featured an interview with Trump-pardoned Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher. The New Republic’s Adam Weinstein had a big problem with that.
• “Amy Klobuchar looked great on paper. What went wrong?” FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon Jr. with the breakdown. Klobuchar will be interviewed by Savannah Guthrie on this morning’s “Today” show on NBC.

Strange and foreign' coronavirus powers activated to forcibly detain Australians

Australians will be able to dob on sick neighbours and large crowds at sport matches could be banned as the Morrison government activates sweeping powers.

 

How governments can enable the anti-money laundering system to have a real impact on serious, profit-motivated crime

CONQUERING DEFEATISM: Tired of following tedious processes and the staggering cost of obeying rules of almost zero impact? There are options.


What if the Government is Just Another Firm? (Part 1) Economics from the Top Down. Part 2.

Company 'never existed': Former ad agency contractor charged over $1 million fraud

The woman was arrested on Australia Day over allegedly committing the fraud as a financial director of the agency.

Five people charged in Sydney's second largest MDMA drug seizure

Five people have been arrested over a tonne of MDMA which was seized after police and Border Force officials realised all was not as it seemed with a consignment of tiling grout.

• US nets second guilty plea in Panama Papers case  
• HMRC investigations into footballer tax affairs reaches record numbers  
• UN forms panel to help battle tax evasion, money laundering  
• EU court backs Google in Hungary tax challenge  
• Hungary Flounders at EU Court in Google Tax Spat  
• Amazon's fight against $277 million EU tax order kicks off  
• Is there more to the EU's tax haven blacklist than meets eye  
• The world is losing $200 billion a year because of tax havens  
• Ireland faces losing €2bn in corporate tax under OECD reform  
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UK House of Commons Debate: Tax Avoidance and Evasion

Politicians are mulling a global tax rate to tame the tech giants  

Tax havens cost governments $200 billion a year. It's time to change the way global tax works  

Belgian companies sent €172.3 billion to tax havens in 2018

Will the UK backtrack on offshore public registers?  

HMRC defeats promoter Root2 Tax Ltd, who used their own avoidance scheme 

Money Laundering: FCA reports a drop in suspicious transactions  

DAC 6: tax evasion and avoidance across borders   

The winner of the International Fiscal Association's 2019 International Tax Student Writing Competition is David Rubin (Virginia), EB OR NOT EB? That is the Question Treasury Must Answer After Brexit, 49 BNA Tax Mgmt. Int’l J. 1 (2020).
Faculty Sponsor: Ruth Mason

A nation’s response to disaster speaks to its strength and to its dysfunctions

The Atlantic – Epidemics Reveal the Truth About the Societies They Hit– “..Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact. The Chinese have already paid a high price for the secretiveness of their system, and for the top-down bureaucratic culture that led many, initially, to conceal the disease. By contrast, one of the reasons Italians aren’t panicking more is that they have confidence in the public-health system, and indeed the system in the broader sense of the word, despite Salvini and his disinformation campaigns. Italy has already tested many thousands of people for the virus—testing is free, of course—which is one of the reasons the numbers are so much higher there than elsewhere. People know this, and repeat it to one another, sometimes joking about it (“We Italians are too honest”) but it is a source of pride. Few others in Europe, so far, are testing that widely. And, of course, the U.S. is not doing anything of the sort…”
See also The New Yorker – Evan Osnos: How Political Spin Has Worsened Epidemics – “…This year, in the first months of the coronavirus epidemic, governments in multiple countries have tried to shape the truth in order to maintain control and deflect criticism…”
And Foreign Policy – Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response – As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.
and How to prepare for the coronavirus like a pro – Some of the smartest people I know are getting ready for a crisis—including me.

COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: Leaked documents suggest Huawei violated Iran sanctions. “Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show that Huawei shipped computer equipment made by Hewlett-Packard to Iran’s largest mobile operator in 2010. The documents provide strong evidence that Huawei was involved in alleged trade sanction violations. They could potentially be used to strengthen the United States’ multifaceted case against Huawei.”

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato (Duke) presents Unintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens​ at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law today as part of its Tax Law and Policy Workshop Speaker Series hosted by Wei Cui:

Eliminating firms’ access to tax havens can have unintended consequences for their domestic economic activity. We study a policy that limited profit shifting by US multinationals and show it raised the tax cost of domestic investment. Firms affected by the policy responded by reducing investment and domestic employment. Firm-level responses were amplified to local labor markets through the establishment networks of profit-shifting firms. More exposed local labor markets experienced declines in employment, income, and home values and saw increases in government transfers. Policy proposals that limit profit shifting should therefore consider effects on economic activity in addition to tax revenue.