The Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Enterprises (the FRSSE) has been a part of small corporate life for almost a decade. Despite this it remains
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The next couple of weeks
The blog is going to be a bit light over the next couple of weeks. And my reactions may also be delayed on occasion. But
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Fair value tax accounting
Accountancy has moved to ‘fair value accounting’ since the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards. Let’s put what this means in a nutshell. It used
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More on the Stones
I couldn’t resist adding the following comment to AccountingWEB’s story on the Stones using the Netherland Antilles and the Netherlands as a way of avoiding
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KPMG, reputation and tax avoidance
Accountancy Age’s lead story this morning says that the symposium they held, to which I have referred several times on this blog, concluded that "tax
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In a nutshell
Sen Carl Levin seems to have summarised offshore staggeringly well in his opening comments to the Senate sub-committee on Tuesday: The key features of offshore
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TaxationWeb on US Senate
TaxationWeb gets insufficient attention in the UK tax world, but knocks spots off its rivals. Edited by Andrew Goodall, who is a serious thinker and
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Rolling Stones and the Netherlands
Most people think that tax havens are small islands with palm trees, remote from anywhere. But that just isn’t true. For example, Accountancy Age has
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The Senate hearing on tax havens
I like the report on the Senate Hearings on tax havens yesterday from Reuters. Take this for example: Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, senior Democrat on
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