Jesses Drucker is a good tax journalist, and I’ve had the privilege of working with him. In a new Wall Street Journal article he notes
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Give us better data then
Dow Jones reports via NASDAQ that: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman on Tuesday pressed House lawmakers to enact President Barack Obama’s proposals to fight
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Winners of alternative tax awards
This is tax award season; the time of year when the tax journals give awards to their advertisers and subscribers for things like being transfer
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Isle of Man costs UK at least £1.5 billion a year
IoMtoday, published by the Isle of man press carries the following story: CUSTOMS and Excise bosses have rejected claims that the UK Government is ‘subsidising’
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The Luxembourg Institute for Global Financial Integrity
I blogged on the implausibility of the above new Institute last week. As a consequence I received the following mail from its Chief Executive: Dear
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A sense of proportion
The following blog was not written by me. The person who wrote it is known to me. I have every reason to believe all that
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I was just acting on professional advice
Quote from Tory MP Andrew MacKay who has quit as parliamentary aide to David Cameron over what the party said was an "unacceptable" expenses claim:
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Let’s have some real extremists
Will Self has said: [S]itting MPs have managed to alienate the electorate all by themselves, by using taxpayers’ money to clean their moat/change their light
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Imaginative MP expenses are not that different from tax avoidance |
I see I’m not the only person to have noticed this: Nigel Stanley at the TUC has done so as well. As Nigel says: Almost
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