The FT has reported that Gerrit Zalm, who will on Thursday be announced as the new chairman of the trustees of the International Accounting Standards
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I noted the following comment in the FT in a discussion on tax havens: The EU staged a crackdown on “harmful tax practices”, including un-equal
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I couldn’t have put this better, so I won’t try. It’s by Jenni Russell in the Guardian: Within hours of last week’s announcement of audacious
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The Observer reported this weekend that: Of the £188m raised by political parties from donations since 2001, some £17.5m, or 9.3 per cent, comes from
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Nicholas Veron of the Bruegel Group was asked to advise the European Parliament on IFRS 8 and the EC’s report on its adoption. This is
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The EU Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee is to consider IFRS 8 on October 3. The resolution they will consider is here. Three things
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Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for the Internal Market announced the outcome of the IFRS 8 review by the European Commission yesterday when making a speech
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Prem Sikka has a blog column on the Guardian site. Today he argues: International accounting standards are colonialism in another guise, allowing tax avoidance while
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Someone at investorsoffshore.com has a done a lot of work on the EU Savings Directive. I don’t like their stance, but it would churlish of
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