All blog owners like to look at their visitor statistics every now and again. the one who denies this is a liar. I noticed something curious when I did so recently. It seems that the four most popular articles on this blog are (in order): Yet more misinformation from PWC PWC’s Total Tax Oversight PWC’s
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These are my links for March 28th: Offshore Financial Centers: Myth And Reality – Forbes.com – This lot is a work of fiction FT.com / In depth – Four-year low for M & A – Excellent news for real business. These things have not been proven to add value to anyone bar the advisers Seumas
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I’m sometimes amazed at some of the accusations that have been levelled against me for for simply asking that people pay the right amount of tax, at the right time in the right place. The accusation by Nichola Ross Martin of AccountingWEB that I was an extremist was one of the more absurd, and does
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Cayman NetNews has reported that: The Governor of the Cayman Islands, His Excellency Stuart Jack, CVO, today (Thursday, 27 March) announced that he has put three senior police officers on required leave to facilitate enquiries into allegations against officers of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS). Police Commissioner Stuart Kernohan, Deputy Commissioner Rudolph Dixon
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These are my links for March 27th: FT.com / In depth – Report links KPMG to fraud at New Century – Another hole for KPMG to dig themselves out of

These are my links for March 26th: FT.com / Columnists / John Kay – More regulation will not prevent next crisis – Amazing – the banker’s apologists are still arguing that there’s no place for regulation in the face of their abuse FT.com | Willem BuiterâÄôs Maverecon | Moral hazard, here we come! – Bera
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Der Spiegel has reported that: The head of Germany’s leading Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, said the world financial crisis currently unfolding would need strong and organized government intervention to stop further bleeding in financial institutions. Simple market corrections, he said, won’t do the trick. “I no longer believe in the market’s self-healing power,” he told
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Martin Wolf said this in the FT today: Remember Friday March 14 2008: it was the day the dream of global free- market capitalism died. For three decades we have moved towards market-driven financial systems. By its decision to rescue Bear Stearns, the Federal Reserve, the institution responsible for monetary policy in the US, chief
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The Chartered Institute of Tax issued the following press release today: The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) welcomes the second Early Day Motion (EDM) on income shifting that has been tabled in the House of Commons. When the first EDM was tabled the CIOT said that it had long been of the view that fundamental
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