Banks which help their customers to avoid paying tax will be targeted by intensive surveillance from HM Revenue & Customs under a new “name and shame” regime to be announced by Alistair Darling next week. Larry Elliott and Jill Treanor, The Guardian.

I’m not quite sure how this would work, as I’m sure the banks will be all too keen to go to court to prevent themselves from being “named and shamed” as The Guardian itself found out when it tried to publish details of Barclays tax dodging schemes – still I hope the scheme works as I’d like to know which banks are ripping us off – now why stop at banks?