Reuters has reported that: A former Arthur Andersen partner responsible for the Enron Corp account has settled allegations that he violated securities laws when he
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The wealth gap is not good for democracy
The Telegraph has a long feature by Robert Preston which is an extract from his new book, Who Runs Britain? in which he looks at
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Offshore trusts: Non-doms games are over
The Sunday Times reports of the new rules for non-domiciled people in the UK that: It was initially thought that offshore trusts would be exempt
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James Purnell: an ideology free zone
Who is this? ————————— NOTE: AN IMAGE OF JAMES PURNELL MP WAS SHOWN HERE ON 12-1-09 THE FOLLOWING NOTE WAS RECEIVED FROM HIS OFFICE: Dear
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US banks restructure at the taxpayer’s expense
US banks have, appropriately, taken the brunt of the sub-prime crisis. They did, after all, pretty much create it. To survive they’ve been issuing massive
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Paying for discipline
Accountancy Age reports: The Financial Reporting Council’s plans to ensure it will never pay costs on disciplinary cases offend ‘natural justice’, senior sources in the
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The Isle of Man: relocating profits
Mondaq.com has an article by Katherine Shea of Cains, Solicitors of the Isle of Man, which says: Latest figures released by research agency Hemscott show
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France and Africa: a relationship still in need of reform
The TJN blog has a great article by Nick Shaxson on the need for France to transform its relationship with Africa. As he says: Once
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Taxes are moral when it suits the Right to say so
I was reading a dire article in the Wall Street Journal which had almost nothing to commend it, bar being about the 1930s in the
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