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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Another welcome move from the European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled on the UK’s ‘thin capitalisation’ tax rules. These attempt to restrict the amount of interest deducted on
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Closing down the opportunites for abuse
I was delighted to see that the Revenue acted on Friday to close a loophole in the UK’s law that was allowing esoteric forms of
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Development Today
Development Today is a Nordic Journal dealing with the subject its title addresses. It does, unfortunately run a web site for subscribes and so I
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