I’m being called by a lot of people about the Pre-Budget Report (PBR) and Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), so here are my top 5 tips
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Northern Rock – rotten abuse of charity
The FT blog has a post on it that reproduces a statement from Down’s Syndrome North East, which says: In connection with the current problems
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The Isle of Man – a few players short of a team
I was amused to look at the web site of the Department of the Treasury in the Isle of Man this morning. This lists all
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Unitary tax is the answer
The FT reported last week that: Proposals for a radical overhaul of the taxation of foreign profits could damage inward investment, US multinationals have warned
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Non-doms buying political influence
The Observer reported this weekend that: Of the £188m raised by political parties from donations since 2001, some £17.5m, or 9.3 per cent, comes from
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Inheritance Tax – the Observer gets it horribly wrong
I am bemused by the Observer’s Cash section. This week they launched their campaign against Inheritance Tax with the headline: ‘Wicked tax’ that hits the
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Domicile – the Observer picks up the argument
The Guardian and Observer picked up the argument, first mooted on this site, that the Conservative’s domicile proposals are illegal, in two separate articles on
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Domicile – the Wall Street Journal wades in
The Americans can’t get their heads round domicile. Quite right too. It shows in this new Wall Street Journal article, to which I contributed. For
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Osborne’s Domicile plan will fall foul of Europe
I wrote earlier this week that George Osborne’s domicile plan could be illegal. I happen to think that right, but some have objected that Parliament
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