So three more companies are planning to leave the UK. Let’s as usual set this in context: Charter has not paid UK tax and has
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Are the CIOT / ICAEW really asking for the UK to copy Ireland?
The ICAEW and CIOT have jointly written to the Treasury asking that the current review on the future of UK corporation tax be expanded. I
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Ireland is at the heart of the credit crunch, and no one is saying so
Jim Stewart from Trinity, Dublin gave a fantastic paper at the TJN conference a week or so back showing that Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre
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Father Ted’s tax haven
The Irish have a Tax Commission in progress at present. It’s latest mad idea in a country that already seems to believe that tax abuse
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Ireland faces EU exit?
I have mentioned, mainly in del.ic.ious comments, the real possibility that in my opinion Ireland might be expelled from the European Union. I was, therefore,
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Bono: helping make poverty reality
I haven’t written about Bono for a while, although what I have written about him remains among the regularly read pages on this blog. It’s
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Tesco: tax avoiding, again (this time it’s Luxembourg)
Private Eye’s dig into Tesco’s tax affairs continues. In the edition published today it has revelation of another tax avoidance scheme, this time based in
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Aberdeen Asset Management: another departee who doesn’t pay enough UK tax for anyone to notice
Aberdeen Asset Management is the latest company to say it might leave the UK, according to the Times. So, I’ve looked at its accounts. This
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BAT: The next to head for Ireland?
Another company that doesn’t pay tax in the UK has announced its results. That’s British American Tobacco. In 2007 is had profit before tax of
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