AccountingWeb has an article in which it is claimed that 95% of accountants may be negligent with regard to tax planning because they do not tell all their clients of all the tax planning schemes that might be available to them.
I think that an absurd suggestion and have said so on that site, saying:
This debate […]
The Sunday Express is the latest paper to notice the comments John Christensen, the international director the Tax Justice Network, and I have to make on tax. I apologise for the time taken to get to them on here, but I’ve been travelling.
Several things shocked that paper. The first was that those companies complaining most […]
It was good to be in the Netherlands yesterday at the conference of the Tax Justice Network in that country.
What was so good about the event was that the event did not just attract TJN people, or those from the support organisations with which we are often associated, such as development agencies (although it was […]
The Times has reported this morning that:
Some of Britain’s biggest listed companies, including several that have threatened to redomicile abroad, paid little or no corporation tax in Britain in 2007.
Research by The Times shows that FTSE-100 companies - Cadbury, Standard Chartered and British American Tobacco, which have a combined market capitalisation of £75 billion, employed […]
The Guardian has admitted that it libelled Tescos in its articles (no longer available on the web) published in February in which it alleged that Tesco avoided corporation tax using a complex offshore structure. This follows the apology it published two weeks ago.
I have advised the Guardian, but not on the original stories it published […]
Neasa MacErlean had an interesting review of the next round of tax changes likely in the UK in the Observer today. She was kind enough to quote some of my thoughts, but more interesting was a comment from BDO’s senior tax partner Stephen Herring. He is reported to have said:
that a cut in corporation tax […]
Thanhniennews.com has reported:
At the [Vietnamese] National Assembly session, the government filed a report saying 2006’s tax revenues collected from foreign-invested businesses were around VND1.97 trillion (US$122 million) less than expected. The government attributed the discrepancy to the slow growth of the automobile and tobacco markets.
But the explanation was met by harsh opposition from other deputies. […]
The Scotsman has reported that Paddy Tomkins, Scotland’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, has identified a raft of improvements needed in the way police deal with fraud, which is thought to be costing the UK about £13.9 billion a year - or £330 for every person in the country. His report said:
The range of types and […]
From the Telegraph this morning:
TUC leaders are said to have been surprised but delighted by the decision to give unions representation [on a working group being set up to consider the taxation of overseas earnings and other long-term tax issues]. Criticism from the TUC about the existing rules and the ability of companies to shelter […]
I know it’s the start of Christian Aid week, and I know they’re talking about tax, but it also seems to be tax avoidance day in the Guardian.
They point out that those seeking to get round the government’s proposed new rules for taxing the foreign income of companies by moving to Ireland are tax avoiders, […]
