The Wall Street Journal published an editorial on 30 January (hidden behind their subscription wall) in which they challenged the assumption, inherent in recent Senate
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Bono – back in the news – and way off track
Bono is back in the news. He’s been at Davos telling the great and good what to do, but Bloomberg’s have decided to draw attention
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KPMG call for tax transparency
Loughlin Hickey at KPMG has been out on the stump in Sweden and has called for greater transparency in taxation: I want to highlight signs
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Paranoid, or what?
I found the following on the web pages of Mutual Trust: The tax authorities of the major industrial nations have become more sophisticated and their
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Tescos to Switzerland?
I’ve heard rumour that Tescos.com is going to Switzerland. The reason is simple. It’s being thrown out of Jersey who are trying to clean up
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Accounting for tax
In the USA the Federal Accounting Standards Board has ruled that its publication FIN48 will apply to all accounts beginning after 15 December 2006. That’s
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Barclays plundering Africa
It’s fertile territory for tax in Kenya right now. As my previous entry showed, the Kenyan tax system is assisting some Kenyans to get very
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How much tax does it cost for Google to create a job?
I always get a little annoyed when those who suggest that commerce is the only way to create wealth ignore the fact that those companies
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Who are the supplies of corruption services?
(Written 9-1-07) Having mentioned ‘suppliers of corruption services’ in my blog ‘Pause for thought: Santiago’ I guess I should be explicit as to what I
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