Dennis Howlett has written some very confused articles on tax evasion over the last few days: so confused that I am not sure where Dennis
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Why was General Reinsurance fined?
There has been much comment on the size of the fines given by the Financial Services Authority to Warren Buffet’s company General Reinsurance. Most only
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A genuine tax simplification for micro-businesses
The cash accounting debate appears to have developed a life of its own. I admit I was surprised when Mike Truman of Taxation magazine joined
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The ECJ rules in favour of tax compliance
Friday’s news that the European Court of Justice has ruled that alcohol and cigarettes bought from other EU countries can only be exempt from domestic
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There is another Jersey
No, we’re not talking New Jersey here. We’re talking Jersey, Channel Islands. That place of which its First Minister, Frank Walker is prone to say
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PWC – your tax strategy is a matter of choice
PWC were kind enough to send me (and no doubt thousands of others) a mail yesterday on tax strategy. Since it was clearly marketing blurb
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Let’s get real about cash accounting – it would be a nightmare
Nichola Ross-Martin, editor of AccountingWEB has written a tetchy response to an observation I made on that web site in which I criticised her call
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Small company accounts – on the record
In my last blog on this issue I asked for readily available and therefore non-burdensome data on ownership and management to be included in small
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Is the Revenue’s anti-avoidance policy working?
Rumour reached me that Ernst & Young are making 15 VAT staff, including two partners, redundant. Word on the street is that clients do not
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