Search Results for: tax evasion
Methods of Tax Avoidance: Doubts Grow Over Fight Against Big Business Tax Evasion
September 24th, 2015
Lawmakers in the European Union say they have doubts that the fight against “aggressive” tax saving plans by the likes of Amazon, Barclays, Coca Cola, Facebook and Google can be sustained because of a lack of political agreement. The ...
OECD updates anti-tax evasion list
August 4th, 2015
Europe’s attempts to clean up tax evasion and money laundering took a step forward yesterday when an international task group said that Austria — a eurozone nation that was until recently falling short —was almost fully compliant with new ...
Strengthening the international community’s fight against offshore tax evasion
June 8th, 2015
Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and New Zealand join multilateral agreement to automatically exchange information In a boost for international efforts to strengthen co-operation against offshore tax evasion, seven new countries have joined the agreement to exchange ...
Tougher rules on money laundering to fight tax evasion and terrorist financing
May 25th, 2015
The ultimate owners of companies will have to be listed in central registers in EU countries, open both to the authorities and to people with a “legitimate interest”, such as investigative journalists, under new rules already agreed with the ...
Switzerland, EU to tackle tax evasion
March 20th, 2015
Bern and Brussels have clinched a deal to exchange bank account data in an effort to tackle tax fraud. The agreement comes after a recent report exposed the global economic damage caused by offshore accounts. Switzerland and the European ...
Accountants could face tax evasion charges
February 25th, 2015
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has called for organisations including accountants, to be prosecuted if they facilitate tax evasion by their clients. The Lib-Dem minister wants to push through new legislation before the general election on 7 ...
Denials continue despite MPs hearing of HSBC tax evasion claims in 2011 (Video)
February 11th, 2015
Downing Street insists it had no warning of HSBC wrongdoing, despite revelation MPs had known about ‘disc from the Swiss’ with names of potential tax dodgers Downing Street and the Financial Conduct Authority insisted on Tuesday they had been ...
Bank Pays $400m Fine For Aiding US Tax Evasion
January 5th, 2015
A leading Israeli bank has agreed to pay the US government $400 million compensation for helping US customers evade tax. Bank Leumi confessed to advising 1,500 wealthy Americans how to evade taxes over several years. The bank ran secret ...
Governments sign deal against tax evasion
October 30th, 2014
Fifty-one countries have pledged to pass on financial data after signing an agreement in Berlin to crack down on tax evasion. The transparency drive, which will launch the automatic exchange of tax information between countries, was hailed by finance ...
Accountants warn against eBay tax evasion
September 8th, 2014
Accountancy firm Baker Tilly has warned people trading on eBay about tax evasion after a man was jailed for two years for failing to declare income from online sales. John Woolfenden was convicted at Bolton Crown Court after he ...
