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Trouble in Paradise – Corporate Vehicles and Contemporary Tax Avoidance

By Nicholas Lord, Karin van Wingerde and Liz Campbell Filed Under: All posts, British Politics Posted: November 6, 2017

Yesterday news broke on the so-called ‘Paradise Papers’, a leak of 13.4 million files detailing the financial behaviours of individual and corporate elites, including questionable financial arrangements facilitating the avoidance of tax liabilities – Dr Nicholas Lord (The University of Manchester), Dr Karin van Wingerde (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Prof Liz Campbell (Durham University) outline […]

Tagged With: hmrc, Paradise Papers, tax, Tax havens

HSBC – A criminological perspective on ‘the bank of tax cheats’

By Nicholas Lord Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: February 14, 2015

Last week BBC Panorama and the Guardian newspaper, following international collaboration with various other media organisations, broke news of how Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, aided some of its wealthiest clients in evading tax.  Here, Dr Nicholas Lord analyses why it is that otherwise ‘good people’, in the context of business organisations, indulge in such ‘white-collar’ […]

Tagged With: hmrc, hsbc, tax evasion

miscarrages of justice

Will new enforcement tool help the Serious Fraud Office secure its reputation and ‘justice’?

By Nicholas Lord Filed Under: All posts Posted: February 25, 2014

It’s been a difficult few years for the UK’s beleaguered Serious Fraud Office (SFO), writes Dr Nicholas Lord. As the authority responsible for the investigation and prosecution of corporate corruption in international business, it’s been blighted by a lack of prosecutions, collapsed cases, failed investigations and data loss. But while the introduction of Deferred Prosecution […]

Tagged With: DPAs, evidence, fraud, prosecution, serious fraud office, SFO

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