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Deloittes, making themselves look stupid

13-Mar-08

Accountancy Age has reported that the Budget should raise £1.7 billion form anti avoidance measures, most aimed at companies. This, of course, is welcome, but we’ve a long way to go in thta case.
One of the really welcome changes has been the attack on partnerships and trust avoidance in controlled foreign companies. as the Age […]

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Liechtenstein: The Big 4 are there and are ashamed to admit it

18-Feb-08

Liechtenstein is tiny: it is 15 miles long, has a population of under 35,000 and one main town. It’s existence is effectively the consequence of a bad real estate deal by the Holy Roman Empire in the 18th century; it became a sovereign state in the 19th century. But that’s a joke. Even its so-called […]

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Deloittes are repugnant

07-Feb-08

I’ve been sent a report from the Irish Examiner from December 2007. It says:

THE Revenue Commissioners have discovered a €200 million tax avoidance scheme involving a leading accountancy firm and motor dealers selling 4×4s.
The scheme, criticised by the country’s top revenue official as “repugnant”, relies on a purported ambiguity in the 1992 Finance Act that […]

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