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whitewave Tue 05-Apr-16 08:38:06

We can't possibly let this slip by!

Tory on Radio 4 this morning arguing that we can't tackle the "treasure islands" that we have sovereignty over as it will lose people jobs!
I was astounded. So it is fine for the Steel workers to face penury but not those who help the wealthy to hide their money.

DC implicated - won't be long before GO is mentioned.

durhamjen Thu 22-Sept-16 17:40:57

I think the problem is that she set up the companies. She defended Cameron and never said anything at the time about her involvement in tax havens.

MaizieD Thu 22-Sept-16 17:23:24

I don't think she has any money in tax havens now, dj

MaizieD Thu 22-Sept-16 17:21:44

The Guardian has investigated her career in business. Her 'family history' is interesting...Also seems to have been associated with some not very successful ventures. But perhaps that can happen to anyone.

www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/amber-rudd-monticello-ill-fated-step-complicated-career-bahamas-leaks

I thought this paragraph was amusing:

She was also the “aristocracy coordinator” for the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, which led to an unlikely business of hiring out “posh” friends to raise the social tone at events.

Rudd told Harpers & Queen that her contacts “might well be more than happy to attend genuine weddings” for £100 a day. The advantage was that they owned “their own morning dress”.

durhamjen Thu 22-Sept-16 17:06:43

Yes, that's the one.
It surely should be impossible for her to stay as home secretary while not disclosing her connections to tax havens.

whitewave Thu 22-Sept-16 16:39:36

Isn't Rudd implicated? Her fellow director has been done for fraud.

durhamjen Thu 22-Sept-16 16:32:11

Another tax haven scandal, this time the Bahamas. Quite close to Panama.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/09/22/why-the-bahamas-leaks-are-important/

durhamjen Mon 27-Jun-16 18:06:23

While we have been watching all the EU stuff, this is going to go through the house tomorrow.

www.one.org/international/blog/could-you-help-us-change-the-law/

It's about tax transparency, and explains it quite well on the link.
Anyone on twitter, could you tweet your MP if you agree with it.

durhamjen Fri 24-Jun-16 22:53:30

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649301/Offices-Conservative-Party-s-biggest-donor-Lycamobile-raided-French-police-nine-people-charged-suspicion-money-laundering-tax-fraud.html

durhamjen Wed 22-Jun-16 23:24:31

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/06/22/why-has-it-taken-the-work-of-one-tax-campaigner-to-stop-on-line-vat-abuse/

This would be funny if it wasn't so serious. Companies avoiding tax, and Amazon telling them to pay up.

durhamjen Mon 13-Jun-16 16:59:49

It's still going on. I hope the taxman gets his share of this.

www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/13/nick-christian-candy-accused-tax-evasion-high-court

durhamjen Sun 05-Jun-16 23:22:47

www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/05/american-economy-brexit-seems-biggest-problem-west

This could be why Osborne hasn't been seen around much lately.
Sorting his paperwork out.

durhamjen Wed 01-Jun-16 20:37:15

At least the EU hasn't forgotten about this, even if the UK appears to have done so.

www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/01/panama-papers-inquiry-expected-call-george-osborne-witness

durhamjen Wed 25-May-16 20:23:11

It looks like Trump has been caught in tax fraud.

www.dailysquib.co.uk/business/19046-can-teflon-don-bypass-serious-allegations-multimillion-dollar-tax-fraud.html

durhamjen Sun 22-May-16 00:02:36

publicintegrity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8dc6eceed67f7f012462d0b12&id=7db41a51b6&e=98045e9077

publicintegrity.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8dc6eceed67f7f012462d0b12&id=98f93f0589&e=98045e9077

durhamjen Sat 21-May-16 23:29:13

publicintegrity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8dc6eceed67f7f012462d0b12&id=cf2759793f&e=98045e9077

More about the Panama papers.

durhamjen Fri 20-May-16 17:22:25

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Taxresearch's Richard Murphy and what he says on the EU.

obieone Sun 15-May-16 16:29:10

Good last post.

durhamjen Sun 15-May-16 14:02:01

www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampaigns/taxjusticecampaign/richardmurphycolumn/theukisnowataxhaven.aspx

This is why they tried to deflect from tax havens to corruption.
A bit 'You're more corrupt than we are, so what are you going to do about it?'
What, the UK corrupt? How dare you suggest it.

durhamjen Sun 15-May-16 11:00:39

Can you imagine a western world led by Trump and Boris.
We will be laughing stocks. Nobody will take us seriously any more.

Anniebach Sun 15-May-16 09:32:29

He will do little if anything, all hot air as usual, the most shallow PM I can recall, suppose Boris Johnson will match him if he gets to be the next one

durhamjen Sat 14-May-16 23:51:31

tompride.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/transparency-international-slams-cameron-on-corruption-uk-must-get-its-own-house-in-order/

durhamjen Sat 14-May-16 22:22:30

panamapapers.icij.org/stairway_tax_heaven_game

An interesting game to play.

durhamjen Fri 13-May-16 23:57:20

www.gov.uk/government/publications/against-corruption-a-collection-of-essays/against-corruption-a-collection-of-essays

These are the ones he thought it expedient to print.

durhamjen Fri 13-May-16 23:55:59

"Corruption is the cancer at the heart of so many of our problems in the world today. It destroys jobs and holds back growth, costing the world economy billions of pounds every year. It traps the poorest in the most desperate poverty as corrupt governments around the world syphon off funds and prevent hard-working people from getting the revenues and benefits of growth that are rightfully theirs. It steals vital resources from our schools and hospitals as corrupt individuals and companies evade the taxes they owe. It can even undermine our security, as Sarah Chayes argues in her essay, if the perceived corruption of local governments makes people more susceptible to the poisonous ideology of extremists."

The first paragraph in Cameron's foreword.
You've got to admire his brazenness.

Anniebach Fri 13-May-16 23:17:37

Why would he turn it down , big mystery - not