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Uruguay Prodded by G-20 to End Bank Secrecy

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 02.13.2012

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As the rich flock to Punta del Este to visit their money over the long Christmas season known as la temporada, Uruguay faces diplomatic pressure from ...

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Switzerland Adds Client Safety Net To U.S. Tax Evasion Agreement

Posted 11.16.2011

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The Swiss cabinet approved on Wednesday an amendment to a tax agreement with the United States to ensure that bank clients are properly informed a...

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House Approves Controversial Trade Deal

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congress voted to approve a free trade agreement with Panama, a country of less than 4 million that still carries economic weight becaus...

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Switzerland Remains Top Tax Haven In The World: Report

Posted 12.03.2011

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Switzerland, despite bank settlements with the United States to disclose tax evaders, remains a top refuge for financial secrecy, according to a n...

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Has Tackling Tax Evasion Reached a Turning Point?

Fiona Fernie | Posted 10.15.2011

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The deal marks an important point in the UK fight against offshore tax evasion and comes at a time when both the U.S. and Germany are also focusing heavily on the issue.

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WATCH: How The Panama Trade Deal Could Undercut Efforts To Repeal Bush Tax Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- During a Monday press conference addressing Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his commitment t...

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Fifa's Gordion Knot

Khadija Sharife | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sepp Blatter, Tax Haven, Switzerland, World Cup, Soccer, Africa, Greenpoint, Moses Mahbida, Fifa, Sports News

South Africa's 2010 World Cup 'feel good' factor is addictive. At taxi ranks, street bazaars and tea-rooms, South African citizens everywhere are fill...

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Hong Kong Is New Target of U.S. Crackdown On Global Tax Evasion

bloomberg.com | David Voreacos, Carlyn Kolker and Alan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hong Kong is a new target of U.S. prosecutors pursuing a global campaign against evaders of federal taxes, spurred by data acquired in their crackdown...

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Tax Haven Scam: Quellos Group Charged With $1.3B Fraud

Los Angeles Times | Kim Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reporting from Seattle -- Two principals of defunct Seattle investment management firm Quellos Group and a Los Angeles lawyer were indicted in a tax s...

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Switzerland Enlists Half-Naked Farmers To Fight Back Tax Haven Slurs

Times Online | Roger Boyes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Switzerland, fed up with being portrayed as a tax-dodgers' paradise, is rebranding itself as a land of hunky half-naked peasants with waxed chests and...

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How Tax Havens Helped Create The Financial Crisis

Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Banks employ large teams of highly paid people to devise transactions mainly for the purpose of avoiding tax. These activities seem to be far more pro...

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Tax Havens: Obama To Outlaw Tax Rules That Save Companies $190 Billion

bloomberg.com | Ryan J. Donmoyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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May 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will propose today to outlaw three offshore tax-avoidance techniques U.S. companies such as Caterpillar In...

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Faux-Populist "Tea Parties" Ignore Tax Breaks for Overpaid CEOs

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Financial Crisis, Tax Haven, Afl-Cio, CEO Pay, Tea Party, Paywatch, Tea Bagging, Tampa-Florida, Cayman Islands, Bank of America, Politics News

There's a useful way to channel anger over corporate pay abuses and tax ripoffs that does far more than venting mindless anti-Obama, anti-tax rage at "tea party" rallies.

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UBS Tax Probe: US Citizen Charged, First One

Associated Press | Tamara Lush | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI (AP) -- A yacht company accountant became the first U.S. citizen Thursday to be charged in the government's investigation into wealthy citizens ...

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Switzerland Tax Evasion Cooperation: To Breaks With Tradition, Embrace Openness

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER and ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — Switzerland's days as a safe haven for the world's tax evaders are numbered. Under pressure from the United States and other troubled ...

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Liechtenstein: Tax Haven Over, Will Adopt Transparency

New York Times | MATTHEW SALTMARSH | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS -- Liechtenstein bowed to international pressure Thursday, saying it would adopt global standards on transparency and information exchange in ta...

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Friday Talking Points [39] -- Republican Elitism Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...

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