Apple is issuing explanations for its tax jaunt to Jersey that are leaving people scratching their heads. There’s good reason for that: the explanations make
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A challenge to the ICAEW: come out in favour of full tax transparency and do so now
The Paradise Papers pose a whole range of questions, many of which I have raised over the last day or so. But underpinning everything is
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Oxfam: the heist no one is talking about
Oxfam launched this hard hitting campaign video this morning. Some may find it distressing. But the reality is that in developing countries lost tax revenues
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Tax strategy reporting amongst the FTSE 50 – Slow to emerge, poorly executed, but a few examples of excellence
The Fair Tax Mark has issued a new report on the tax strategy reporting of the largest 50 companies in the FTSE 100. As it
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Holding the Big Four accountants to account: progress in the European Parliament
I have just been advised of this, having not previously caught up with this news: Last Wednesday the European Parliament voted in Committee the Draft
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Public country-by-country reporting is going to happen
I am greatly amused by an article in the latest Cayman Financial Review with the title: Compulsory public country-by-country reporting and CCCTB — harbingers of
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Aggregation v Consolidation in the CCCTB
For those with access to International Tax Review, this article was out yesterday: It builds on themes in this previously unpublished paper written a month
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The Financial Reporting Council has been nationalised
Tim Bush of Pensions and Investments Research Consultants (who I advise) drew my attention to an article in the Institute of Chartered Accountant’s magazine, Economia,
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A new appointment with the Global Reporting Initiative
City, University of London, posted this late last week: A tax expert from City, University of London is providing expertise to a project that aims to develop
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