The Australian seems to have summed tax planning up quite nicely: The essence of tax planning is that a lawyer will fly close to the
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I recently mentioned Quaker business principles here, which are something I know a bit about. So it was good to note that Accountancy Age have
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The following message has been sent to me from the office of Senator Carl Levin in the USA, via Bill Fant at Citizens for Tax
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There’s some fascinating comments on the performance of HM Revenue & Customs over at Accountingweb. Take this one: HMRC’s attitude and approach has been planned
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I’ve been asked why businesses do not profit maximise (see my earlier post in which I said this). There are several reasons, but I’ll try
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Dennis Howlett has been musing on tax over at Accmanpro. It’s worth having a look at what he’s thinking. I can see where he’s coming
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The Tax Justice Network email forum has been seeing an interesting debate on tax, ethics and all such issues during which criticism arose of the
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I was called by an academic at the Judge Institute at Cambridge University late last week. They were looking for a recent theoretical justification for
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I’ve been discussing the question of ethics with Dennis Howlett. He’s a man who has studied the subject, seriously. And he’s come up with a
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