UK government offers amnesty to tax evaders named in Pandora Papers
Tony McClements
July 17, 2023
The UK tax authority HMRC is offering a tax amnesty to UK residents featured in 2021’s Pandora Papers disclosures, the revelations produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
At the time, the huge leak of 11.9 million documents revealed the offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, heads of state, and more than 100 billionaires, celebrities, and business leaders.… Continue Reading
The Law Commission published the long-awaited Corporate Liability Options Paper on June 10, 2022. This followed a request by the British Government in November 2022 to consider “the challenges faced by the criminal justice system under the current law relating to corporate criminal liability .”
Problems with integrity often start from behaviors. Poor culture may drive misconduct and poor outcomes. The behavioral risk needs to be managed. Do we all agree on this? I think so.
As many businesses worldwide have shifted towards a hybrid working model, authorities have been adapting traditional dawn raids in the last decade as server and device data have become more important than hard copy files in most investigations.… 
When passed in 2010, the UK Bribery Act was dubbed the “most stringent anti-corruption legislation in the world.” This was due in part to Section 7, which created an unprecedented form of vicarious liability at the time, with a potentially strong extraterritorial reach.…