Davos is over for another year, thank God. For the next 12 months we will be spared business leaders telling us how they intend to make the world a better place... more
Alistair Darling was cheered by Labour MPs when he announced agreements with offshore tax havens, which will now share information with Britain... more
Wealthy Brits are among 24,000 clients of HSBC’s Swiss private bank who had their details stolen by an employee and given to the French authorities, the bank admits... more
In a letter to the Evening Standard, Vince Cable says I was wrong to argue that directors of Royal Bank of Scotland should be free to distribute their £1.5 billion bonus pool... more
A fifth of the UK’s high-rolling entrepreneurs are planning to leave Britain when the 50% tax regime comes into play next April, accountancy firm Tenon warned today ... more
Wales manager John Toshack has been left clutching at the fleeting chance that his side could still snatch third spot in their World Cup qualifying Group Four... more
HOT tip for wannabe frauds? A fine taste for design. Apparently that's the reason the authorities didn’t catch Bernie Madoff sooner than they did
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The Friends Provident/Resolution merger is a great deal. For a very small number of people. Resolution founder Clive Cowdery in particular has done well ... ... more
UBS will hand over details of thousands of tax dodgers with private Swiss bank accounts to the US tax authorities after a deal struck between Switzerland and America... more
UBS will hand over details of thousands of tax dodgers with private Swiss bank accounts to the US tax authorities after a deal struck between Switzerland and America... more
The UK'S top taxman is in Switzerland to broker a historic deal which could see an end to Britain's biggest companies and wealthiest individuals secretly stashing cash in Liechtenstein... more
Football: Roman Pavlyuchenko believes Russia can take a big step towards ensuring Guus Hiddink stays on as full-time coach if they win convincingly in Liechtenstein... more
Is it all over for Liechtenstein? Hit by the sale of stolen bank account details to foreign investigative authorities, the tiny tax haven has revealed the fall-put from this major breach in its traditional wall of secrecy... more
Scandal: A court in Germany has sentenced the former boss of Deutsche Post to 24 months’ probation for his involvement in the country’s biggest post-war tax-evasion scandal... more
Heinrich Kleber, the former LGT Bank employee in Liechtenstein who stole a data disc that triggered a tax hunt in Germany and the UK, is now wanted by Interpol... more
A 21-year-old Scout leader was at his "absolute happiest" when he set off on a walk in Liechtenstein which ended in him falling 1,000 feet to his death down a ravine... more
Just as Britain's tax dodgers are facing possible criminal prosecutions over the estimated £1 billion they have salted away in Liechtenstein, Germans who have already been fined are now suing the bank where they hoarded their undeclared assets... more
US prosecutors are to demand names of wealthy UBS clients suspected of using the Swiss banking giant to help avoid income tax, reports in the US say... more
The secret donor pumping £1 million into the school where Tony Blair refused to send his children is revealed today as a Liechtenstein-based charity... more
Am I the only person in Britain who pays tax? That's certainly what it's felt like these past few weeks. I've lost track of how many people I've come across who are non-doms - yet seem to have lived all their lives here and have the most English of accents... more
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