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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Compass is probably the most active moderate left of centre think tank at the moment. It’s just published a paper on tax competition in Europe.
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I got a remarkably quick response to my recent blog on a conversation I’d had with EC officials suggesting that stakeholders are of no concern
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I was speaking to the EC on IFRS 8 today. They made a number of comments in the light of the letter they had sent
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Finextra has reported that: The European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation on ways of making it easier for customers to switch bank accounts between
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I was sent this: Many companies are organised in group structures. However, intra group transactions and the group’s transactions with related parties often lack transparency
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The EU has, as reported on this blog, been considering plans to amend the EU Savings Directive. These plans are, of course, exploratory at this
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