Apr 05, 2016 13:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Panama Papers leak sheds some light on the intricate ways in which the wealthy can exploit secretive offshore tax regimes. As well as charging minimal or no tax to residents and non-residents, the main characteristics...
Panama Papers: information sharing could bust open secretive companies in tax havens
Apr 05, 2016 04:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The essence of the problem highlighted in the major leak from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca is that the governments of tax havens still allow intermediary firms to establish shell companies or trusts and dont...
Airline emissions and the case for a carbon tax on flight tickets
Apr 05, 2016 04:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Nature
After years of delay, the international aviation industry is inching its way towards bringing its greenhouse emissions under some form of regulation. Last month the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organisation...
From Panama papers to Brazilian bribes: why corruption is so bad
Apr 05, 2016 00:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The news is currently filled with stories of corruption. A global group of media outlets just broke the story of secret offshore bank accounts in Panama, which suggests widespread corruption in the Russian government...
CRISPR dispute raises bigger patent issues that we're not talking about
Apr 04, 2016 16:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The worlds of science, technology and patent law eagerly await the U.S. governments decision on who deserves patents on what many have referred to as the biotechnology invention of the century: the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing...
Panama Papers: the nuts and bolts of a massive international investigation
Apr 04, 2016 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
The reporting of the Panama Papers which has been based on a massive global analysis of documents leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca outlining how the worlds elite use tax havens is a remarkable feat of collaboration...
With Pirates on the horizon, Iceland's government may not survive the Panama Papers
Apr 04, 2016 15:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The release of the Panama Papers will have a huge impact around the world. But Iceland deserves some particular attention. According to documents leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, several Icelandic...
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