A reminder, for those who want to learn more about tax havens, of the following:
6th OffshoreAlertFinancial Due Diligence Conference‘The Unexpurgated Offshore’Sunday - Tuesday, April 13 - 15, 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
I’ll be there but from a look at the speaker list am expecting to be a little outnumbered by those with whom I share [...]
I’ve just been called by OSA Recruitment in the Isle of Man.
The told me they’d read my CV and wanted to know if I would relocate to the Isle of Man if the right package was offered.
They seemed quite shocked when I told them my opinion of the place.
Better luck next time guys.
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For those who follow this blog Channel 4 news at 7pm UK time and BBC 1 news at 10pm may have items of interest tonight, subject of course to no breaking news in the meantime.
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I’ve suggested 2007 was a good year for those working on tax justice issues. What does 2008 hold?
Given that the role of taxation in development is a key feature of our work a great deal of effort will go into the UN’s conference on finance for development planned for Doha in November 2008. I know [...]
2007 was a good year for tax justice.
Most important of all was a serous change in the development community. There is now significant support for the idea that the creation of effective tax systems is vital is developing countries are to end their dependency upon aid. There’s also been widespread agreement that this requires the [...]
I was amused by this on the AccountingWEB home page today (which means it won’t stay there for long):
Editor’s Note
I often marvel at the amount of work Richard Murphy gets through. When he’s not blogging or campaigning as part of his Tax Research work, it seems he’s jetting off to conferences with the UN or [...]
My apologies to all those shocked by the appearance of my image on this page. I was asked to add it. I’m told people find it easier to relate to text if they can picture the person who wrote it. So now you can.
And for the curious, the background is a railway carriage. The picture [...]
I always think it’s a little vain when people self promote themselves for winning awards. But since this is something which I am genuinely unaccustomed at I’m going to do it anyway.
Accountancy Age has an annual award ceremony. I didn’t go this week, I admit, although I have been in the past. But I was [...]
The following exchange took place during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday:
Q3. [156090] Dr. Nick Palmer (Broxtowe) (Lab): In the past two weeks, we have heard alternative approaches to the taxation of foreign non-domiciles. Will the Prime Minister confirm that he is confident that the Government’s approach will target people who can [...]
Time to reflect on the Moral Maze.
For those who have not heard it you can hear it here.
I was happy with my own performance - although I spoke too fast, as I often do.
The producer told me as I left the studio that I had won against Melanie Phillips - which I always presumed would [...]
