Accountancy Age has reported that Dave Hartnett, HM Revenue & Customs’ acting chairman has said that HMRC is encountering new and aggressive avoidance techniques. He
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Hartnett on the offensive
Dave Hartnett, HM Revenue & Customs’ acting Chairman has told the Public Accounts Committee that: has told the When I meet the chairman of a
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Audit committees don’t understand off balance sheet finance
Accountancy Age reports that: Audit committees don’t understand the off-balance sheet structures that are blowing holes in company balance sheets, investors have insisted. The comments,
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Jamaica: Not likely to make it as a tax haven
I was amused to note that tax haven lobby group The Sovereign Society had a feature on whether Jamaica might be the next tax haven
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Country-bycountry reporting in the FT
Prem Sikka had this letter in the FT yesterday, follwoing on from a blog here: PM’s proposed cure for markets is problematic From Prof Prem
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 29th
These are my links for January 29th: International Security – Emerging Threats – Dirty Money – UPI.com – TJN in the limelight on illict funds
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The Star Initiative: Tackling Corruption
The World Bank has a copy of the speech of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank Group at the Fight against Corruption
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Guernsey: pretending to stand on its own
I was amused to read a story in the Guernsey Press and Star which had the headline: GUERNSEY’S independence is seriously under threat from the
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If you don’t get flack for the Enron audit what do you get it for?
Reuters has reported that: A former Arthur Andersen partner responsible for the Enron Corp account has settled allegations that he violated securities laws when he
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