I have been subject to some fairly predictable verbal assaults from some in the financial services industry over the last few days, especially but not
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Northern Rock: just admit it, the market has failed
I find it disturbing to read that the Guardian can report that: The Treasury has stepped up efforts to avoid having to nationalise Northern Rock
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AccountingWEB: profoundly unethical conduct
On Friday I posted a link on the AccountingWEB site to my entry on this blog on income shifting. Given that I was writing about
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Multi-million bonuses shame City
War on Want issued the follwoing press release today: Tax haven poverty alert The City of London today came under fire for paying out million
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Income shifting: why accountants are protesting too much
I have been reading the reaction on AccountingWEB to the HM Revenue & Customs’ paper on income shifting. As far as I can tell I
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Defining corruption
I was in Oslo this week for a conference on Illicit Financial Flows. There is little I can report – the event took place under
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286 in the USA – and a tax fraudster
Accountancy Age reports: A billionaire – ranked 286th in Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans – accused of hiding millions in foreign bank accounts,
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Everything has changed
Martin Wolf is one of the biggest hitters in the world on economic thinking. He said in this FT column this week that: These are
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Flat taxes do not stack
I was quite pleased to find one of my old articles on flat tax reappear on the web of late. It originally appeared on Society
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