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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 11.12.2009 | World

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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 07.06.2009 | Business

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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 06.26.2009 | World

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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 06.05.2009 | Business

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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 06.04.2009 | Business

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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 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Art Levine

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 05.03.2009 | Business

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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 04.13.2009 | Business

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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 04.12.2009 | Business

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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 07.26.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

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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