Dave Hartnett is the charismatic director general of HM Revenue & Customs. At an Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales event last week
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Why are there so many non-doms?
Partly because there’s so much to be made from helping these people abuse the UK tax system. Which is why guides like this on how
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What is a tax haven?
Defining a tax haven is hard. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has sought to deny the UK is a haven, but offered no justification for
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Darling – cheap jibes won’t do
Alistair Darling has given his first major interview to an accountancy paper, and has used it to tell Accountancy Age that: claims that the UK
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An apology
Blog traffic has been light, I know. There are two reasons. Even I get distracted from tax by holidays, sometimes. And the network I was
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Globalisation backlash
The FT has published a survey that show most people in the UK think: 1) Globalisation is having a negative effect; 2) Most people cannot
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ICAEW – all in a spin on private equity
Accountancy Age has noted that: Private equity’s ‘failure to play the PR game’ has forced it on the defensive, the vice-chairman of the ICAEW corporate
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The Chancellor and the riddle of domicile
I happened to have received the Chancellor’s briefing for Labour MPs on today’s Lib Dem debate on tax and the rich. On domicile and residence
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From the other side
Sometimes one has to look at things from the other side of the debate. Inverstoroffshore.com recently published this guide to “International Privacy and Security for
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