ICYMI The Corruption Diaries podcast: "for the longest time bribing to get a business deal was the way business was done & the attitude in the business community was are you kidding? This is how we operate!" All episodes here or wherever you get your podcasts podcasts.taxjustice.net/production/t...

A post-google world: seems unthinkable? Fascinating from @matthewstoller.bsky.socialwww.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-post-goo...

A Post-Google World

Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.

2) It says "When you invest you get up to 50% income tax relief & 50% capital gains tax relief which could mean a £100,000 investment could cost you as little as £48,000. Any gains are also tax free." So, eyes on that Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme then... investors are 'twitchy' apparently

1) Interesting. In an email I got from a wealth advisor org it says £££ into UK's Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme ('the most tax efficient vehicle available') have surged because of fear of capital gains tax rises in the new government's October budget. Surged = 188% since the election result

NHS England must cancel its contract with Palantir www.bmj.com/content/386/...

NHS England must cancel its contract with Palantir

In November 2023, NHS England awarded Palantir a £330m contract to create a new data management system called the Federated Data Platform (FDP) that aims to provide “joined up” NHS services.1 Palantir...

Have you heard of greenlaundering? @taxjusticenet.bsky.socialtaxjustice.net/events/clima...

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“The hung loans also have cut into some investment bankers’ annual pay. Barclays’s top bankers on M&A team were told at a dinner last year that compensation for everyone in room would be cut by at least 40%. The bank had several hung deals but X was by far the largest.” www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

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Contrary to popular perception, much hyped by interested parties like Henley & Partners, "a study by the London School of Economics finds that the rich are, in fact, v unlikely to relocate because of tax rises alone" Tax makes a place worth living for wealthy people too www.ft.com/content/4232...

Do the very wealthy relocate because of tax rises alone?

Access to the arts is more likely to govern a billionaire’s choice to stay in a cultural capital such as London — along with the political and economic security

European banking giant Nordea has agreed to pay $35 million to New York’s financial services watchdog after an investigation into the bank’s alleged failure to prevent money laundering and other criminal activities, including some from the #PanamaPapers.

Nordea to pay $35 million to end Panama Papers-linked money laundering probe - ICIJ

A top New York regulator said the Finland-listed bank had been implicated in several global scandals including ICIJ’s 2016 exposé, which showed Nordea helped hundreds of customers create offshore…