I recently applauded Mark Lee’s “cards on the table” test for acceptable tax planning. In this Mark says, when talking about the new requirement to
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Let’s be clear – Inheritance Tax is not double taxation
Jason Holden is proving to be a regular, and welcome reader of this blog. But I want to pick up on something he said in
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Ethical practice
There’s a good discussion at AccManPro on ethical consulting practice, so I won’t reproduce it here. Suffice to say, this gives a flavour: Which leaves
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Out of the mouths of journalists
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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Quaker principles? Well, maybe not if you’re Cadbury’s
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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Why haven’t we got someone like Senator Carl Levin?
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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What do small practitioners think?
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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Why don’t businesses profit maximise?
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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Tax and Codes of Conduct
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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