The International Accounting Standards Board has issued IFRS 8 today on segment reporting. In their press release they did however add the following comment: The
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It’s been put to me that tax minimisation is required by professional ethics. I don’t agree. There are two reasons: 1. Firstly, reasonable code of
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Several people have challenged me about what tax compliance might be in comments in other postings on this blog. So I thought I’d better tackle
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Dennis Howlett gets it spot on with this one. Go to his place to read it. If evidence is needed that advisers are out of
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It’s OK to quote Polly Toynbee now. David Cameron does. I’m on side, apparently. So take this from her column in the Guardian today: Yesterday,
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As anyone who has read the UK press in the last couple of days knows, they’ve been issuing their usual bleat in advance of their
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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that: Publicly traded companies reduced their U.S. taxable income by at least $34.8 billion in 2004 through potentially abusive
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Stuart Jones posted a comment on my piece called ‘Do small businesses evade tax?’. He said: I’m sorry Richard but there are limits: ” ‚Ķ‚Ķthe
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On yesterday’s Sunday Talkback show on BBC Radio Jersey Senator Frank Walker, the First Minister of the island (equivalent to prime minister was asked if
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