The FT has reported that: Britain’s accounting watchdog will be dismantled and replaced by a new stronger regulator that can issue harsher penalties and directly
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Audit and accountancy are in need of real reform, not an odd change in semantics
The FT has noted this morning that: After a string of embarrassing failures, the Big Four accounting firms are turning to the thesaurus for help.
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A step towards a universal basic income
The Guardian has noted this morning that: The tax-free personal allowance, which rises to £12,500 in April, should be scrapped and replaced with a flat
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The accounts don’t work anymore
The FT has an article by Jonathan Ford this morning headlined: Accounting has become the opposite of useful for users That is a big claim
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The IMF says that the time for major corporation tax reform has arrived
The IMF has issued a new report this morning that says that the time for major corporation tax reform has arrived. The summary appears lacklustre:
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Corporation tax reform cannot be its replacement with a VAT
I (with others) have a letter in the FT this morning: Reform would be little more than additional VAT From Professor Richard Murphy and others
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Tax evasion is not the exclusive preserve of large companies and the wealthy
According to the Guardian Jeremy Corbyn said this on Friday: We believe that the real divide in our society is not between people who voted
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91% of US Democrats wholly or partially back the Green New Deal
As the Guardian has noted, the De Moines Register (a newspaper in Iowa, USA, with a good track record on polling) has done a poll
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Labour’s proposed reform of tenancies will create a bad law to replace a bad law – UPDATED
I wish I knew who was doing the thinking in Labour right now. If I did I might ask them to do better. The latest
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