As Simon Sweetman notes at AccountingWEB, the Revenue have published a report on charitable giving. As he concludes: it seems that tax reliefs make little
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At its Board Meeting last week FASB was presented with a staff Memorandum which included a discussion (starting on page 5) on the future of
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The Church of Scientology has, according to the Express, filed accounts claiming it does not owe tax as it has charitable status. It has not
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My wife and I were discussing education at the weekend. This is part of the commonplace parental obsession with the subject, but also focused on
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IFRS 8 is the IASB standard on segment reporting on which I have been campaigning for longer than I now care to remember. IFRS 8
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I’ve said before. I won’t gloat. Wolfowitz has gone from the World Bank. That had to be. Now it’s time for a proper process of
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The US is focusing heavily on its ‘tax gap’ – the sum of at least $345 billion it does not collect in tax a year,
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The Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange, Clara Furse, has had a rant about taxation. According to Accountancy Age she said: We (public companies)
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There’s a blog with this title at TJN. Well worth reading.