Accountancy Age report this morning that: HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS has begun its search for a permanent General Anti-Abuse Rule advisory panel, following the recent
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Is the OECD puffing bluff so we don’t notice there will be no real progress on tax at the G8?
Much is being made of nine new countries signing the OECD’s multilateral convention on mutual administrative assistance on tax matters. Of course I welcome Luxembourg, Austria
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Google doesn’t care
The one thing that can be said about 2013 so far is that attitudes on tax have changed. This is Philip Stephens in the FT
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Courageous States would stop top civil servants selling their secrets to the private sector
As John Gapper in the FT has noted: The news that Dave Hartnett, the UK’s chief tax collector, has become a consultant to Deloitte, is hardly
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Why is Switzerland giving up banking secrecy? Could it be it’s all about bankers avoiding justice?
The FT notes that: Switzerland has taken a decisive step to resolve its dispute with the US over tax evasion unveiling plans to relax its
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Deloitte at the heart of energy companies’ claims for tax allowances they aren’t due
There is much to note in yesterday’s announcement from the Treasury that it was blocking abusive claims by the energy companies for tax relief on spending that they had not, in
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The OECD admit tax abuse is creating austerity – and seems to accept it as a fait accompli
Here's an interesting paradox. Angel Gurria, OECD boss said today when talking about corporation tax that taxing the “man on the street” wasn't economically desirable
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The OECD: an exercise in idealism over indifference
One day someone should set these two paragraphs from the Guardian today as an exam question and ask how they explain the indifferennce to human
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Why is anyone surprised that doctors are human?
I should declare an interest. As many people know I am married to a doctor. Like every other doctor she is human and suffers from
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