Tax havens

European Union finance ministers have removed eight countries, including much-criticized Panama, from a tax haven blacklist. Ministers say the jurisdictions have committed to making reforms that meet EU standards of tax transparency.

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Sun sea and tax avoidance might sound like paradise but the European Union doesn't agree. It's issued a blacklist of 17 countries it says are tax havens.

Oxfam says Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands should be on the EU’s forthcoming tax haven blacklist. The NGO has published its own

‘There is no secrecy’ Malta's prime minister tells euronews as he talks about business and theories surrounding the recent murder of a local journalist.

The British royal is shown to have connections with offshore investments and is criticised for a "conflict of interest".

Apple denies avoiding tax after the latest documents in the Paradise Papers are released

The New York Times has accused US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross of having ties to Putin-linked firm

In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: the fallout of the Catalonia crisis strains relations between Belgium and Spain; and EU finance ministers

'Paradise Papers' leaks believed to have brought forward discussions

Paradise Papers: UK's opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn has implied that Queen Elizabeth II should apologise after investing millions offshore.

A huge leak of financial documents reveal how the world's super-rich protect their wealth

Oxfam concluded that 20 major European banks make a quarter of their profits, or 25 billion euros in low tax jurisdictions.

This is the Brief from Brussels, a daily roundup from Europe’s de facto political capital.

Just two months after its former president joined Goldman Sachs, the European Commission has been caught up in another corporate scandal.

The inquiry committee will have 65 members and will report back in one year

A world away from Panama, the sleepy eastern Hungarian village of Komlóska has become a kind of tax haven to survive, eliminating local taxes to bring in more than 100 companies.

UK Prime Minister admits he did not handle the Panama Papers revelation well

Police in El Salvador have raided the local offices of Mossack Fonseca, the company exposed in the Panama Papers leaks. Officials said they were

Protesters in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires have been calling for the country’s president Mauricio Macrito step down after the so-called Panama

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he and his wife did own shares in an offshore trust run by his late father. Blairmore Holdings was

The documents leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca name Putin's friend Sergei Roldugin as the owner of two offshore companies involved in some suspicious transactions.