KPMG has published another report on tax and CSR. I’m not pretending that this is a full review of that paper, which I received yesterday,
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Would you want your pension managed from Guernsey?
There’s wide coverage this morning of the purchase of Telent (the last rump of the old GE / Marconi empire) to the Guernsey based Pension
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HBOS – where are the Chinese Walls in its Treasury?
There’s a simple rule in finance. It says don’t mix your money with the customers. So I was surprised to read the HBOS 2006 result
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What’s happening in the financial centres?
Monitoring what is happening in Europe’s finance centres is a near full time occupation. I’ve found a blog that helps. It’s by a Frenchman called
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Charity and Taxation
Mark Vyner is a man who has followed his convictions. He was a partner in Grant Thornton until he got pretty uncomfortable with that required
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Inheritance Tax – and why it’s got nothing to do with the family home
I continue to be bemused by some arguments put forward by those who argue against Inheritance Tax. In particular I am completely baffled by the
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Fair value falls apart
The International Accounting Standards Board IFRS project seems to be falling apart at the seems. Like so much of the current financial architecture, International Financial
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Eliminating child poverty is possible
Another thing Alistair Darling said to the Labour Party conference was: Our priority is always to look forward and to see what more can be
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Just waiting for your call
I’ve read Alistair Darling’s speech to the Labour party conference yesterday. He said: We need to be able to separate out ordinary savers money. Paying
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