I note this in the Irish Times this afternoon: Disputes between the big accountancy companies and and tax authorities are common enough. But the decision
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This is an absolute gem from Iris Dement I was wholly unaware of before it was recommended by Robin Stafford: The lyrics are here. This
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Most people who have to do them find doing one tax return a year quite onerous. I know. I have helped many hundreds (maybe more)
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Democracy is entirely dependent upon the existence of effective opposition to the government of the day. I am aware that some are discussing whether we
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As the FT has noted: Although George Osborne, the chancellor, revealed plans to increase transport capital spending by 50 per cent to a total of
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I have no idea whether someone in the Department of Health was trying to send out some subliminal messaging this morning or not but I
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Yesterday was the third best readership day in the history of this blog. There were more than 21,000 reads. This seemed to go down well:
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I have explained the concept of sectoral balancing before. At the risk of repeating myself, what it suggests is that if the government is to run
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Tax credits were a cut too far. The Lords, the Sun, Labour and his own backbenchers had told George Osborne that was the case. He
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