Take this story from Forbes, for example. As they put it: Why pay tax if you don’t have to? Thomas Siebel used a corporate beast
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What were Ernst & Young thinking of when they created this? What are we meant to think of Ernst & Young? Thanks to Dennis Howlett
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I’ve written a bit about sham trusts on here of late. It’s good to have the evidence therefore that they really do impose a cost
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The EU held a seminar entitled ‘Corporate tax competition and coordination in the European Union’ on 25 September and it was my misfortune to attend.
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I was reminded by an email from Jeffrey Owens (head of tax at the OECD) that I have not given sufficient (in fact, any) coverage
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As ever, accountants are seeking to exploit any loophole they can find in taxation law and regulations. One of the more recent wheezes is to
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The Tax Justice Network in Jersey visited France at the weekend. One of the people they met was a bank manager with a large French
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The Independent on Sunday covered the Carl Levin US Senate report today. The comment given to them by the UK Treasury is the most telling
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Dennis Howlett has been musing on developments in the market for the Big 4 as pressure is brought to bear upon them. What he says
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