This looked worth sharing: An international network of leading investigative journalists is today contacting 7,000 politicians in 20 countries to request they publish details of
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The Tax Justice Network podcast: taxing finance sectors into good behaviour, dark money, Trump’s valentine to big oil, the Swiss say ‘no’
In the February 2017 Taxcast: how financial transaction taxes can protect us from finance sectors dragging our economies down. Plus: the Swiss referendum — taxpayers
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The European Parliament demands public disclosure for all companies and trusts
In the last hour the European Parliament has agreed with the European Commission’s proposal calling for public disclosure of information about who really owns and
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Simple errors
PWC made a simple error at the Oscars and are, rightly, being criticised for it. But as I have pointed out, they have committed many
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PWC has some apologising to do, and not just for the Oscars
Sometime during the 1990s, when my main activity was to be senior partner of a firm of chartered accountants, I realised that what my firm
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Who messed up at the Oscars? PWC did
Does Theresa May have no respect for the rule of law?
According to Politics Home: Theresa May is to announce an end to freedom of movement in to the UK at the same as triggering the
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Solving the repayment of quantitative easing problem for good
I had one of the boring ‘but QE will have to be repaid one day’ conversations that have been a part of my life for
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The challenge facing KPMG and other global tax practices
I have a new blog post out on KPMG’s web site: The challenge I note was made in response to KPMG publishing its new tax strategy.
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