It’s forecast we’ll get a 7% stamp duty on properties costing more than £2 million today. The problem with that is it perpetuates a bad
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It’s going to be a busy day. I was to be on Sky at 10.20 – that’s now uncertain due to the situation in France.
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As the Guardian notes in its budget speculation this morning: Soaking the rich? Osborne’s expected to announce a new tax raid on the wealthy, perhaps by limiting how
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As announced earlier, the 2012 research workshop co-organised by the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs and theTax Justice Network, will explore connections between tax avoidance, corruption and
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I note that big business is already seeking to water down Graham Aaranson’s already wholly ineffective proposal for a general anti-avoidance rule. Finance Director reports: Chris Sanger, global
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George Osborne has said he’s going to stop stamp duty avoidance though the use of offshore limited companies tomorrow. And so he should. According to some reports The
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This is just too good not to quote, by Aditya Chakrabortty in the Guardian: Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again
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I’ve just been sent a note on how easy it would be to avoid the new UK – Swiss tax deal and declare nothing to the UK
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Just a note to say I’ll be on…. Discussing the morality of tax.