June 24, 2013 - IRS Sent $46 Million In Refunds To 'Unauthorized' Workers A
the Internal Revenue Service sent a total of $46,378,040 in refunds to "unauthorized" workers at one address in Atlanta, Ga., according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
June 24, 2013 - SHIELDS: Obama vs. the Caymen Islands
Barack Obama spoke bluntly: "You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
June 24, 2013 - American powerhouse goes full throttle vs. IRS
Patriots arriving from around the nation will be able to attend two tea parties at the Capitol on Wednesday.
June 24, 2013 - Off Shore Leaks Stir Hornet’s Nest
Revelations of full details of various ‘off shore’ companies held for the benefit of Sri Lankans and Sri Lankan companies has caused great consternation amongst sections of the business community whose involvement has been revealed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
June 21, 2013 - World leaders tackle tax havens with ICIJ help
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) can take partial credit for the results of this week’s G-8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland.
June 17, 2013 - ICIJ Releases Offshore Leaks Database to Public
The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database cracks open the impenetrable world of offshore tax havens. Users can through more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore locales such as the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands and Singapore.
June 17, 2013 - Offshore Leaks app puts secret users of tax havens in the p
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.
June 6, 2013 - Transparency changes for Cayman
Yet those who in the past have continuously banged the drum in favour of a Conservative British government in the hope that the pressure on offshore financial centres would abate, have to be disappointed.
June 4, 2013 - Canadian bank commits to complying with IRS Caribbean reques
the IRS filed a “John Doe” summons requesting information on an unknown number of unnamed people against US taxpayers with offshore accounts at the Barbados-based FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB),
May 20, 2013 - India, other FTA members to share offshore leaks tax info
Stepping up efforts to tackle tax evasion, the 45—nation grouping on tax administration, which includes India, has agreed to share among themselves information received by member countries from “offshore leaks”.
May 10, 2013 - IRS Opens Tax Cases Based on Trove of Offshore Account Data
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has opened cases and begun investigations based on what it calls a “substantial amount” of information it has received on offshore companies and trusts.
May 10, 2013 - Offshore tax-evasion probe to give feds access to Canadian i
three countries announced an investigation... in tax havens such as Singapore, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Cook Islands
May 10, 2013 - Canada left out of tax probe into leaked offshore data
The U.S., Britain and Australia announced Thursday they've launched what could be the biggest ever international investigation into tax cheats, using what is believed to be largely the same massive leak of offshore
May 10, 2013 - Jamaica, US to sign agreement on FATCA
The Jamaican Government and the United States (US) are expected to sign an agreement by July aimed at endorsing a new hegemony tax act called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA),
May 6, 2013 - U.K. under pressure to clean up tax havens
British Overseas Territories in the Western Hemisphere will abandon their "tax haven" status as London struggles to raise cash and counter European charges its Caribbean and other overseas territories encourage tax evasion.