I noticed a tweet from PWC an hour or so ago, saying: Such things get my attention so I followed the links to here, and
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Here’s what looks like another lie: tax statements to 24 million people will only cost £5 million
According to the Guardian, and I suspect that they have their source is right, the government is saying that the mailshot of tax statements to
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Why personal tax statements are so wildly inaccurate
The government has announced overnight that the first people in the UK to get what they call Personal Tax Statements will be sent them today.
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Some things you can’t make up, including RBS advising the police on tackling financial crime
This headline from the FT this morning tests credibility, except for the fact that it is true: I suppose there is merit in asking those
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International Financial Reporting Standards are not intended to suit tax authority needs
The EU’s Accounting Regulatory Committee minute, to which I have already referred with regard to the IFRS Foundation, offered another little gem on further reading.
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The EU would like to know why the International Financial Reporting Standard Foundation is registered in Delaware. They’re not alone
I noted a rather obscure EU minute over the weekend, from the little known Accounting Regulatory Committee. It recorded in June this year that: So,
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Advance notice: I am out of action from Friday
This will be an odd working week as on Friday I will (all going well) finally have the operation to remove my gall bladder. After
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The morality of taxation, or David Cameron got this one wrong
David Cameron has said there is a moral duty to cut tax and in the process reveals, yet again his lack of understanding of tax, morality
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Every crisis has given rise to a new economics – where’s ours?
I spoke at a conference in Glasgow in September on Reinventing the Economy. Anatole Kaletsky, author of Capitalism 4.0, chaired the session I spoke in.
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