A strange press release arrived in my in-box last night from one of the national papers (and not the usual suspects). The sender thought I
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No regulation with self interest
Accountancy Age report that: The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has released a policy position on professional regulation of the accountancy profession, stating professional accountancy
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No representation without tax
A Bill for a new Act of Parliament was tabled in the UK this week. It’s called the ‘Disqualification from Parliament (Taxation Status) Bill’ and
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Banking in the name of charity
Worth reading the Guardian’s letters on bank’s abuse of charity. PS I gather I’m in the Guardian’s letters of the year compendium. Better get a
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The most important tax haven report in years
I’ve written quite a bit about the NAO report on the Crown Protectorates over the last few days. And having read the detail I’ve now
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One World Trust – open for talks
Accountancy Age has reported that: The One World Trust received a formal complaint about the IASB report into NGOs and its accountability this week. And
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Domicile: where are the Treasury now?
The Treasury and HMRC have published their review of the domicile rule and laws on residence. The review starts with all the usual platitudes about
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Securitisation
The Guardian did another first rate article on securitisation yesterday. As they showed, at least £234 billion of mortgage assets are held by twelve UK
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One World Trust – Accountability and how to get it so wrong on the IASB
As part of its report on Global Accountability the One World Trust published a case study on the International Accounting Standards Board under the title
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