Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy BBC.....................
'Tax havens' agree to clampdown on tax avoidance and evasion
Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies have agreed to sign up to a new clampdown
on tax evasion following a meeting with David Cameron.
The prime minister said it was a "very positive step forward" ahead of the G8 meeting, which starts on Monday.
Keith Sansum1
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Well I don't usually wish the mouse well
but in this I do
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Paying £ 20 million `could keep Messi out of jail.....
Lionel Messi, the Barcelona footballer accused of tax evasion, could avoid a jail sentence if he admits
wrongdoing and pays a fine of €24 million (£20 million), tax experts said yesterday.
Messi, who has been voted Fifa's World Player of the Year for the past four years running, is jointly
accused with his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, of evading €4.1 million (£3.5 million) in taxes between 2007 and 2009.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the spanish authorities are very hot on tax evasion/avoidance, this issue came up when economic difficulties hit the southern european countries. italy and greece were lax but spain were red hot.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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should he avoid jail
would you or I over if we owed a couple of quid?
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Brian Dixon
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yes kieth.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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As far as openness and transparency goes on the Tax-Haven front, we shall have to wait and see. In the meantime we can rejoice a little that not everybody is waiting...
Offshore Leaks app puts secret users of tax havens in the public eye
Interactive database forming part of a cache of 2.5m leaked files has been launched by Washington-based ICIJ
"An interactive database allowing users to search more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore tax havens including the British Virgin Islands has gone online.
The data, part of a cache of 2.5m leaked files that has already led to a series of exposes of the offshore financial sector by the Guardian and other global media organisations, has been launched by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/15/database-app-icij-tax-havens
P.S.
I have used the online 'app', inputting the names of LLPs from a list in a recent Private Eye, but with no success.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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interesting
will any get caught up in it all
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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nah,it all will be moved to another safe haven.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Thanks Tom keep em` coming............would Flashman attempt to produce a UK ``Madam Lagarde Register ???
and suffer the repercussions of the Elite Greedy Pigs ?????
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Of course a lot will also come down to the mouse, and if he changes legislation, google/starbucks etc are correct, it's the govt that set what they pay,
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Give us access to information on tax havens and tax avoiders, African leaders tell David Cameron
ahead of G8 Summit
African leaders will warn David Cameron on Monday that his plans for a global crackdown on tax
avoidance may be of little value to the world's poorest countries.
A high-level group chaired by Thabo Mbeki, the former South African President, has found that
African countries are losing $50bn a year in illicit financial flows - much of it into tax havens, and
more than the annual aid they receive.
The panel will unveil its findings in Zambia on Monday as Mr Cameron urges G8 leaders to
agree joint action on tax avoidance as they start a two-day summit at Lough Erne near Enniskillen in
Northern Ireland. The African group will
propose three measures on the G8's agenda - a global system of tax information-sharing; identifying
the real "beneficial owners" of bank accounts, often concealed behind phantom "shell companies", and for
multinationals to publicly report their business operations and tax payments in each country where they operate.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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As far as improving Global Taxation goes, there is 'chaste' and there is 'chased'...
http://martinhearson.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/un-transfer-pricing-manual-what-brazil-india-and-china-do-differently/
Especially after about slide #30.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Lets hope they can come to some kind of agreement
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy I ndependent........precise rvh...............
£145 British Grand Prix tickets leave sales in the slow lane as fans rebel against price rises
Interest hit by among the most expensive admission prices of any F1 race
It's the leading motor-racing event of the UK sporting summer, but attendance at this month's
British Grand Prix is expected to be significantly down as Formula One fans rebel against
ever-increasing ticket prices.
The cheapest tickets for next's Sunday's race at Silverstone start at £145 - among the highest
of any Grand Prix.
This appears to have priced out many F1 enthusiasts as the downturn bites, with a course
spokesman admitting to
The Independent yesterday that sales "aren't that strong".
The high-octane ticket prices are down to F1's business model which is unlike other sports.
Circuits generally do not get any revenue from the television broadcasts of the race or the corporate hospitality and
advertising hoardings at the track.
Money from this goes to the sport's rights-holder the F1 Group, which is run by billionaire Bernie Ecclestone.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I went to the British GP at Silverstone in 1971. Never again. Waste of money, couldn't see anything except the back of peoples' heads, then it rained, got soaked to the skin and it took until after midnight to get out of the car park as it was grass and the rain had turned it to a bog. This year it's in front of the telly with beer in hand. You see it all, you get a commentary you can hear and it's free of charge.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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cricket test match prices are outrageous enough but £.145 takes the biscuit.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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cricket test match prices are outrageous enough but £.145 takes the biscuit.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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................and greedy Bernie will not get a penny.............or will he ?