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Tax avoidance clampdown: Barclays statement in full

Barclays said it was the bank at the centre of a clampdown by Britain on two tax avoidance schemes that the government said would close loopholes and raise more than £500m in tax. Here is the bank's statement:

Offshore tax move for British engineering champion, Sir James Dyson

Financial Mail has established that in 2009 the vacuum cleaner entrepreneur sold his business to Clear Cover Limited, a company that he owns, which is incorporated in Malta.

How to have a 'nice' divorce

Debrett’s Guide to Civilised Separation is not all social niceties, however.

Bank tax dodges halted by retrospective law

A bank in the UK has been forced to pay more than half a billion pounds in tax which it had dodged by using "highly abusive" tax avoidance schemes.

HMRC launches tax evasion task force

In what has been described as a "gloves off" approach, HMRC will be launching the new task forces in the 2012/13 tax year, which begins April 6.

Metals trader fraudster given extra seven years

The banks – including West LB, JP Morgan Chase and Dresdner Bank – lost more than £400m after they were duped into backing a series of bogus metal shipment trades by Rastogi's firm RBG Resources and related companies.

Weil Gotshal lands first BC Partners fundraising since hiring CC team

BCEC IX is reported to be the biggest European buy-out fund to have a final close since the height of the financial crisis.

Mishcon harnesses private client nous with advisory launch

It will also offer concierge services - an extension of the 24–hour, 365 days a year global concierge service the firm launched in conjunction with leading luxury lifestyle group, Quintessentially, in 2010.

Citi, UBS provide keys to widening interest rate-rigging probe

Citigroup and UBS, in a series of disclosures to law-enforcement officials, have provided crucial information to investigators in multiple countries as part of inquiries into whether the world's biggest banks manipulated a global benchmark interest r

Greece signs international tax agreement to tackle tax evasion

The Convention promotes international co-operation in the assessment and collection of taxes.

U2 bassist suing Bank of Ireland Private Banking

U2′s bass player Adam Clayton is suing Bank of Ireland Private Banking and chartered accounting firm Gaby Smyth & Co over claims that his former personal assistant took over €4.8 million from his bank accounts.

Keydata founder seeks probe ban on FSA staff who saw e-mails

Keydata administered 2.8 billion pounds ($4.42 billion) of assets when the FSA asked a court to place it into administration in 2009.

Scottish firm Biggart Baillie advises Rangers FC administration

The news comes as the English football club Portsmouth FC have also applied to enter administration for the second time in recent years, amid growing concerns that football's financial bubble is about to burst.

FSA obtains interim injunction to halt unauthorised deposit-taker

Assets belonging to both Mudge and Lewis have also been frozen.

FSA bans Ayrshire-based IFA over non-payment of £8K fees

Dominique Strauss-Kahn questioned as 'pimp' suspect

The 62-year-old ex-Socialist minister was seen as the frontrunner to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France until his arrest last May on rape charges on a New York maid – later dropped.

U.K. Lawmaker Targets Bank Executives

The Conservative Member of Parliament for Wycombe is hoping to attract cross-party support for a new bill that will force bank directors, already under pressure over the size of their bonuses, to take personal liability for any losses suffered under their

Garnier calls for IMA to reverse stance on fees

HSBC Global Asset Management, Legal & General Investments and BlackRock have now joined Fidelity in calling for a new industry standard of fund fee disclosure which takes into account trading costs.

Iceland FSA head derides investigation into his fitness for job

The regulator’s board will review Andersen’s letter today, said Chairman Adalsteinn Leifsson, in a Feb. 17 interview.

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