Kofi Annan has a pre-G8 op-ed in the New York Times this morning. In it he says: This is an area in which the G-8
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Ernst & Young: an organisation that sees intellectual credibility, public opinion and economic opportunity slipping away from them
Right at the close of the Ernst & Young report on country-by-country reporting they disclose some very telling detail. They say this: This is their only reference
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Why are Ernst & Young wilfully misrepresenting country-by-country reporting? Could it be they’re frightened of the NGO demands?
I said yesterday that I had not had time to read the full Ernst & Young report on country-by-country reporting. Now I have, and it is, in
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Labour unambiguously supports country-by-country reporting to defeat poverty
I repost the following, with full permission, from the blog of Salman Shaheen, the editor of International Tax Review. I could curt and play with it, but
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The Pin-Stripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Societies
This was recorded late last year – but is well worth sharing. It’s my good friend Prem Sikka in action: Hat tip to another good
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Ernst & Young’s paranoia about country-by-country reporting
The following paragraphs come from Ernst & Young’s new report on tax transparency: In making the decision in terms of what to disclose, the range of information that
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Ernst & Young concede the case for greater tax transparency has been won – but want to put every obstacle they can in its path
Ernst & Young issued a report yesterday called ‘Tax Transparency: Seizing the initiative’. Put bluntly, the report says that there shouldn’t be a legal requirement to deliver country-by-country reporting,
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You don’t beat corporate tax abuse by a little voluntary disclosure in CSR reports David Cameron
In a further sign that all the rhetoric on tax fraud and the need to tackle it is just just rhetoric without a plan for
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Bill Dodwell can’t face both ways at once
The Mail published some interesting, but limited data on Sunday suggesting the lack of information on which companies registered on the FTSE 100 do and do not disclose the
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