I wrote recently about how IFRS pension accounting would compound the current financial problems created by the irrational behaviour of the world’s so called financial
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A Norwegian reader asked recently on this site: Why would a state actively strive to become a tax heaven (as you mean UK is/is becoming)
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A former neighbour of mine sent me the follwoing comment after hearing Hecklers last night: Enjoyed the programme this evening. However, depressed by attitude of
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The FT has reported: Hutchison Telecommunications International, the Hong Kong-based company, has booked a tax-free windfall of HK$69.3bn (US$8.9bn) from the sale of its Indian
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The Guardian obituary for Leona Helmsley described her as in the title for this piece. I rather liked that. As important, it added a quotation
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So Leonora Helmsley is reputed to have said. I suspect she did. She served time in jail for believing it to be true. She died
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John Redwood wrote a fevered article in the Telegraph today complaining no one has taken his message on the economy seriously, for which he blames
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I guess I should blog about the Tory’s tax plans. But I can’t raise enough enthusiasm to comment on such obviously mad strategies as those
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The Guardian is doing well with its blogs today. Seamus Milne has a great one on the growing poverty gap in the UK. As he
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