The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued the following press release this morning: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to Hold Hearing June 17: Tax Haven
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Are accounts worthless?
Emily Coltman, one of the regular readers of this blog, commented on a recent posting of mine to say: “Financial statements‚Ķ are a throwaway”. I’m
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Debt, debt, glorious debt
I liked this: Debt, debt, glorious debt,Nothing quite like it for making you sweat,so borrow and borrow, like there’s no tomorrowand there we will wallow
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Investing for real: how to use tax releif to best effect
There was an extraordinary piece of information in the Observer newspaper on Sunday. It was noted with regard to equity investors that: Retail investors have
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Jersey: costing £500 million in tax evasion to the UK a year, at least
Jersey has published its figures for tax retained under the EU Savings Tax Directive in 2007. The press release they put out is misleading. I
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Auditors: do they really make any difference any more?
Accountancy Age reported last week that: The push for auditor liability limitation in the US received a boost today when an influential audit group threw
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CORRUPTION: Norway Turns the Spotlight on Tax Havens
A new commission appointed by Norway will investigate ways of putting a stop to the huge flows of money into tax havens. Tax evasion and
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Osborne: still playing politics with tax
The Guardian has reported that: The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, yesterday promised a radical reform of fuel duty that would have given motorists an immediate
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Why ask the accountants? They’re the problem, not the solution
On Thursday (when I was at a conference and out of blogging action) the FT reported that: The US Internal Revenue Service is to solicit
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