Tax Research UK

These are my links for August 12th:

• Nowhere to hide as taxman steps up tax probe - Accountancy Age - Every cloud has a silver lining for Grant Thornton
• Creative Capitalism: What makes profit-maximization possible - Well worth the read, from Martin Wolf
• People: BBC man Sir Bill Cotton dies aged 80 | News | The First Post - "The great thing about being mediocre is that I am always at my best"

  You have to be bright to think up something like that

• FT.com / World / Middle East - Obituary: Mahmoud Darwish - "The concept of a national poet with the power to shape a national movement and define a country’s collective spirit seems to belong to a different century."

  Really? That's like saying hope has died.

• Olympics: Empty seats a concern for Games | Sport | guardian.co.uk - Can we cancel London 2012 now?
• FT.com / Companies / Financial services - Morgan Stanley ARS buyback offer rejected - At last someone is holding the banks to account.