The Guardian has reported tonight that: The whistleblower who exposed wrongdoing at HSBC’s Swiss private bank has been sentenced to five years in prison by
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The autumn statement, and HMRC’s own vision for itself, suggests that the future of tax in this country belongs in a digital era. The result
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Over the summer the idea of Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing morphed into People’s Quantitative Easing and was adopted by Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour leadership bid. Much
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Barclays have been fined £72 million for their failure to apply proper money laundering standards to a single deal, suggested to be worth £52 million
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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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