I’ve been giving the recent KPMG paper on tax and CSR a more thorough read. It’s made me think a lot, but as usual with
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I like this sticker designed to be attached to standard issue economics text books: I also believe this is true: I don’t care who writes
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Running a well read blog is a privilege. Sometimes it is also hard work. And occasionally it’s difficult. This week I am travelling with relatively
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Alastair Darling announced in the Pre-Budget Report: a major reform of capital gains tax, introducing a single rate of 18 per cent from April 2008,
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Comments made following the launch of the TJN / AABA Code of Conduct for Taxation yesterday questioned the links between democracy and taxation. For example,
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I have tried to get a straight answer from the Isle of Man on whether their 0 / 10 tax legislations has been approved by
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Accountancy Age featured the following article by me this morning on its editorial pages (link to follow): Tax has always been close to the accountant’s
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The FT has reported that Gerrit Zalm, who will on Thursday be announced as the new chairman of the trustees of the International Accounting Standards
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The Tax Justice Network and Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs have today published a Code of Conduct for Taxation that I have written on
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