The Moral Maze is broadcast on BBC Radio 4. For those who might be interested, I am on tonight’s programme discussing inheritance, and Inheritance Tax.
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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is an important, if flawed, attempt to create accountability within the extractive industries. It has within it one of the
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I spent some time last night wondering why it had taken me time to comprehend what George Osborne was really trying to say about domicile
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Daylight is beginning to break on what George Osborne’s plans for the non-domiciled are. I gather that there will be no change in the non-dom
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George Osborne proposes to raise the Inheritance Tax limit to £1 million so, as he puts it, the family home is not subject to this
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The FT reports that: AngloGold Ashanti is to waive tax breaks and pay levies on its huge gold mine in Tanzania amid a fierce political
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“The race to the bottom” is a well known phrase in offshore tax. It is the seemingly inevitable way in which tax havens are used
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The Observer has noted today that: Northern Rock’s accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing accusations of a damaging conflict of interest after it emerged that it earned
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I asked recently why no one was talking about the risks to ordinary people in the UK from the use of ‘special purpose vehicles’ (SPVs)
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