This is in an FT email this morning: Now the article is by Janan Ganesh, for whom I have little time, so I’m not suggesting
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The ICAEW – arch defender of vested interests and the status quo against democratic accountability
There are occasions when I find my own professional institute – the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – intensely annoying. I can even
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You ain’t seen nothing yet: we’ve only had 40% of the cuts so far
Will Hutton said this yesterday in the Observer: It is an incidental sentence, but it brought me up short. By 2018, general government consumption will
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Tackling false self employments in one easy step
The government announced in the Autumn Statement last week that: As the next step [in tackling abuse of employment taxation], Autumn Statement 2013 announces action
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Is HSBC fleeing to a tax haven?
According to the FT: HSBC has sounded out investors about a flotation of its UK arm, in a move that would realise value from its high
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Making Pensions Work – my 2010 epistle on the issue deserves another outing
There are a lot of people asking me what I would do about pensions today. So here form 2010 is my answer: Finance for the
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HMRC staff are not being protected by the autumn statement – they’re being invited to leave, right now
It was said in the autumn statement that the HMRC budget was being protected from cuts. That must come as news to many in HMRC
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The Swiss tax agreement – £3.2 billion in a year has suddenly become £1.4 billion, at best
Famously the UK Swiss tax agreement was supposed to generate £3 billion of tax receipts this year. Even in June 2013 the OBR was saying
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The almost impossible assumptions under pinning the autumn statement
The autumn statement matters. It matters because millions of people’s wellbeing in this country depends on whether or not our economy recovers. It matters to
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