The situation in the Middle East looks to be very volatile. Israel’s attack on an Iranian embassy has given rise to an almost inevitable counter
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Poor, petrified, non-doms are terrified that they might have to pay some tax
The Guardian is reporting this morning that: “People are jumping on planes right now and leaving,” said Nimesh Shah, the chief executive of Blick Rothenberg,
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Ben Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England was doomed from the outset because he didn’t ask the right questions
There has been lots of comment in the media on the criticisms that former chair of the US Federal Reserve and economics Nobel prize winner,
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Starmer’s commitment to nuclear power is all about electioneering
The front page of the Mail today apparently looks like this: I am not too concerned about OJ Simpson, and I will let the Grand
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The Guardian agrees: Labour’s tax problems can’t be solved by a cosy coterie of old insiders
This comment was posted on the blog overnight by long term occasional commentator Jonathan: Interestingly, now the Guardian have discovered your Taxing Wealth Report it
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Labour is outsourcing policy to The City establishment
An old friend, Ian Fraser, who wrote a great book on the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, reminded me of one of my
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Why has Rachel Reeves appointed as her tax adviser a person who has said that tax is extortion and told parliament that he was not too worried about small businesses not paying their taxes?
Rachel Reeves has appointed Sir Edward Troup to be one of her four new tax advisers. He might be a former boss of HM Revenue
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Rachael Reeves will not close the tax gap by looking overseas. Pretending that the problem is elsewhere is no longer realistic. It’s in her own backyard.
Rachel Reeves is making an announcement today on how she will plug the gap that she thinks exists in her financial plans as a consequence
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Farewell to the ICAEW
Amongst the things that I did not predict would happen during the course of 2024 was that I would leave the Institute of Chartered Accountants
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