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Tax Avoidance

Lawmaker accuses Google of dodging taxes

14 Jun 2013

An influential committee of British lawmakers accused search company Google of dodging its taxes on Thursday in a scathing report that said the US Internet company took on highly contrived...

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Ernst & Young to pay US$123m fine for tax avoidance

5 Mar 2013

Ernst & Young has agreed to pay US$123 million in a settlement with criminal prosecutors in the US, admitting that some of its most senior tax partners had been involved in developing,...

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Gerard Depardieu meets Vladimir Putin after receiving Russian passport

7 Jan 2013

Hollywood actor Gerard Depardieu, who has threatened to quit France to avoid higher taxes, received a Russian passport yesterday and an offer of residence in a central Russia region known for...

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Revealed: The worldwide network of sham directors

27 Nov 2012

The existence of a global network of sham company directors, most of them British, was revealed yesterday by an investigation into an obscure practice that helps keep secret countless financial...

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Starbucks roasted by British lawmakers over tax stance

13 Nov 2012

British lawmakers grilled global coffee giant Starbucks over its tax policies on Monday, arguing that claims that its British division was unprofitable “just doesn’t ring true”.

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British tax authorities investigate list of HSBC accounts in Jersey

10 Nov 2012

British tax authorities are investigating a list of more than 4,000 British residents who have bank accounts with HSBC Holdings, the country's biggest lender, in the offshore tax haven of Jersey...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

2 comments

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Howard Winn

Way to go

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The Week Explained: Tax Avoidance

Those of us who assumed that there was something dubious about the world's most famous purveyor of milky hot drinks (it calls itself a coffee specialist) have discovered that there is also...

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Appointments

Bernard Poon
President - Greater China
CPA Australia

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We must not tolerate these rich tax cheats

Renewed diplomatic spats over Switzerland's banking secrecy are a clear sign that the days of the alpine nation's highly lucrative, if shadowy, practice are numbered. Swiss officials and bankers...

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New rules put intercompany arrangements in the spotlight

Mainland tax authorities recently launched a series of initiatives to address tax avoidance concerns, driven mainly by the question as to whether corporate taxpayers are shifting profits offshore...

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Hong Kong saved from tax-haven tag in final communique

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen yesterday leapt to the defence of Hong Kong's tax standards, after a row over the city's compliance with global rules threatened to derail the G20 summit....

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Profit warning over tax payment hits Giordano

Shares of casual wear retailer Giordano International fell as much as 4 per cent yesterday following a profit warning after the mainland authorities demanded the company pay more tax.

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