The Guardian has noted: Angelina Jolie could be deterred from UK move by mansion tax and: Celebrity said it ‘would be really nice to have
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Time is something accountants should respect: we don’t at our peril
I found an article I wrote for Accountancy Age in 1997 yesterday. I was a columnist for them at the time (this writing lark goes
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The poverty of Osborne’s economic thinking
The FT has reported that: George Osborne will next week announce plans to put into law a promise to balance Britain’s underlying budget deficit by
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Tackling day-to-day tax avoidance
Rebecca Bennyworth has asked the elephant in the room question on tax avoidance in a guest post on Jolyn Maugham’s blog. That question is a
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Which one would you focus on? The tax gap or benefit fraud?
Why is the government wanting you to focus on the yellow spot and not the red circle? You decide which is more important. And then
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You can’t have an effective income tax without having a corporation tax too
I posted Alex Cobham’s review of Gabriel Zucamn’s paper on corporate tax reform last week. I re-read that paper this weekend and noticed this comment:
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Another HMRC failing is their lack of willing to enforce the minimum wage
One of the tasks entrusted to HM Revenue & Customs is enforcement of the minimum wage. Unfortunately they don’t do it well. As the Guardian reports:
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There is no way on earth we can tax profits
It is an odd, and sometimes welcome part of my work that people send me papers they have written on various aspects of accounting, tax
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The November Taxcast
The November 2014 Tax Justice Network Podcast is out: ‘You can lie and you can steal from us again but this time we’ll know who
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