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  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    McDonald's Corp
    McDonald’s agrees to pay €1.25bn to settle French tax dispute

    Settlement follows probe by prosecutors into claims US fast-food chain diverted income abroad

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    British Virgin Islands
    UK decides against imposing direct rule on British Virgin Islands

    London says territory should be given time to improve its governance following change of premier

  • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
    International tax
    UK admits it has no idea how much tax is being evaded through offshore assets

    HM Revenue & Customs says residents had £850bn in accounts overseas but it does not estimate if tax paid on this

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    Amazon’s tax tussle raises broader questions for investors

    The upcoming vote could be a litmus test for those who profess to be champions of ESG

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    LexMoney laundering
    Offshore centres: trade in secrecy is big business for small islands Premium content

    Critical scrutiny is now focused on hubs such as Dubai

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Personal Finance
    Thousands admit not paying UK tax on overseas assets

    Number of warning letters sent by HMRC up by a third

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Mauritius aims to shed ‘tax haven’ image

    International pressure prompts overhaul of laws, with nation’s attractions for business expected to remain

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Special ReportInvesting in Mauritius
    Mauritius: offshore finance watchdogs sniff close to home

    Few in the industry are under any illusions about the need to keep abreast of the regulatory frontier

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    The world needs to come clean about dirty money

    Abramovich’s $50mn Aspen villa is apparently listed in his own name. That makes it a rarity among oligarchs’ assets

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Tax
    Increased scrutiny threatens British Virgin Islands and wealthy clients

    Growing international pressure on tax havens and local corruption probe put the territory’s business model at risk

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    UK tax
    Contractors in UK can escape tax if new hiring rules are misapplied

    HMRC admits that freelancers are eligible to reclaim all tax paid under IR35 regime if hirers misclassify them

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    News in-depthEuropean banks
    Swiss banks’ struggles to move on from murky past hit by documents leak

    Fallout from release of details of Credit Suisse accounts threatens to spread through country’s finance sector

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    Non-fungible tokens
    HMRC’s NFT seizure ‘a warning’ to investors and tax cheats

    Move linked to an investigation into VAT fraud

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    ArcelorMittal SA
    ArcelorMittal bank accounts in Ukraine frozen over tax evasion claims

    Attack on steel group by country’s authorities is latest in number of probes over past few years

  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
    UBS Group AG
    French court slashes UBS tax penalty to €1.8bn

    Ruling follows bank’s appeal against decision that left it facing €4.5bn penalty for helping clients evade tax

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Tax
    ‘Freelancers forced into tax avoidance by umbrella companies’

    Unscrupulous operators take advantage of contractors after controversial tax changes

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Andrew Mitchell
    Dirty money in the UK is harming more than our reputation

    We can’t create sustainable economic growth while being the jurisdiction of choice for kleptocrats and crooks

  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
    PwC
    PwC’s German offices searched in tax fraud investigation

    Eight current and former partners accused of evading €11m in VAT as revenue was routed through Switzerland

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    HMRC builds war chest in battle against tax avoidance

    Experts say the Budget could have done more to ensure individuals and companies pay their bills

  • Monday, 25 October, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Pandora leaks are damning for Latin America

    Region’s public officials are over-represented in files from offshore havens

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    UK tax
    Tax ‘nudge’ letters to be sent to crypto investors

    HMRC plans to probe digital currency holders over possible gains

  • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
    Twitter Spaces on the Pandora Papers

    This week we will be joined by Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, to discuss the recent leak of some 12m documents.

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    International tax
    From Panama to the Pandora papers: what’s changed in offshore tax

    The rich and powerful continue to evade and avoid tax despite progress in recent years

  • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
    Massive data leak exposes hidden wealth of world leaders

    Report by media consortium outlines how the wealthy use tax havens to move and store money

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
    US charges six Swiss bankers over tax fraud

    Executives at IHAG and consultancy for super-rich accused of helping to hide $60m through offshore scheme

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