The committee set up by Alastair Darling to consider the future of corporation tax, and in particular the taxation of foreign profits, meets for the
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Raising VAT is not the answer to the corporation tax problem
I admit that there are moments when I quietly despair of the harm that is likely to result from so called tax reforms. This morning
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Time to debate the issues
Accountancy Age has a good article called ‘Guarding reputations: tax profession needs to clean up its act’. By seasoned journalist Sarah Perrin, it seeks to
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The US gets tough on tax exiles
The US is getting tougher on tax exiles. As the Wall Street Journal reports: Hundreds of Americans formally renounce their U. S. citizenship every year,
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Tescos: the Zug deal is tax avoidance
I am almost amused by a comment made this morning concerning my analysis of Tesco’s financing operation in Zug in Switzerland by Tim Worstall who
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Tescos, supplliers of bunkum
Tesco’s claim that it doesn’t avoid tax has been blown clean out of the water by Private Eye. In this week’s edition the Eye notes
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Accountants do not have to tell their clients about tax planning schemes
AccountingWeb has an article in which it is claimed that 95% of accountants may be negligent with regard to tax planning because they do not
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Why isn’t BAT paying tax?
I note BAT now has a new reason for not paying UK tax. Previously it was that it’s UK head office made a loss. That’s
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Britain’s big companies aren’t paying tax
The Times has reported this morning that: Some of Britain’s biggest listed companies, including several that have threatened to redomicile abroad, paid little or no
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