As the FT notes: The UK chancellor aims to launch an “Osborne bond” — a 100-year debt issue or even a perpetual gilt that never
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From Martin Wolf in the FT this morning, and important pre-the budget: One cannot get out of debt by taking on more debt. How often have you
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The Tax Justice Network has today published a report on the OECD’s Global Forum peer review process, the main mechanism for assessing the effectiveness of Tax Information
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H M Revenue & Customs will issue 850,000 penalty notices for late income tax returns this year. It sounds an astonishing number but actually about
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As Philip Stephens says in the FT this morning: Those demanding the chancellor should “cut and be damned” present a confused case. On the one hand
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Talking of the International Tax Review, as I did in the previous blog, it’s worth mentioning that they’ve launched the programme for what will undoubtedly be one of the major
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The International Tax Review has reported on a conference at Oxford last week, saying: Of course, Oxford could also have heard from me on the
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As the BBC reports this morning: Almost 100 permanent posts at local councils are being filled by people paid through limited companies, the BBC has
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So much is going on I am having problems covering it all. So let me just point at this important Guardian story on the ongoing saga of the Channel Islands, vat
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