I have to admit I found the pre-Budget Report depressing. It’s not, and should not be, a big tax event. That’s the role of the
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The BBC has reported on a new report from the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the UN University. If you do nothing else
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Wednesday sees Gordon Brown’s final pre-budget report. He’s been in the job for almost ten years now and yet one of his explicit 1997 pre-election
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The Sunday Times has published a report which they have apparently prepared with Grant Thornton, chartered accountants, on the abuse of the UK’s tax laws
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It’s been put to me that tax minimisation is required by professional ethics. I don’t agree. There are two reasons: 1. Firstly, reasonable code of
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Dennis Howlett gets it spot on with this one. Go to his place to read it. If evidence is needed that advisers are out of
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As anyone who has read the UK press in the last couple of days knows, they’ve been issuing their usual bleat in advance of their
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There has been much comment on the size of the fines given by the Financial Services Authority to Warren Buffet’s company General Reinsurance. Most only
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Friday’s news that the European Court of Justice has ruled that alcohol and cigarettes bought from other EU countries can only be exempt from domestic
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