I’ve been musing some more on the CBI’s ministrations on tax. I have a database on UK company performance. I prepared it when researching ‘Mind
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1,400 miles for a tax dodge
As the Daily Telegraph has reported: Tesco is shipping CDs and DVDs to Switzerland and back in order to save customers as little as £1.56
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Holy alliance embarks on tax crusade
The above title comes from the Observer. As they say in today’s paper: A holy alliance of church groups and bishops is demanding that Gordon
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The Tories don’t change
When it comes to tax Tories are predictable. They don’t like them. That’s why they appoint Lords who don’t pay them. Yet paying tax is
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EU Savings Directive – moves in the right direction
The FT confirms the story I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago – that the EU is looking hard at how to close loopholes
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Reform of the EU Savings Directive?
I hear rumour that the EU is looking seriously at revisions to the Savings Directive. These are the changes that they would like to to
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Grant Thornton – failing to join up their thinking
Grant Thornton, the UK’s fifth biggest firm of accountants have told UK Chancellor Gordon Brown that it wants these things in the Budget: A cut
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Canadians want to close the Tax Gap
Opinion polls are fickle things and majorities are not always right, I know, but an opinion poll published in Canada yesterday does certainly give reason
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Money laundering
For those with an interest in money laundering, the US Government has recently published its 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Volume 2 is on
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