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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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 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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I was, if I’m honest a little surprised to find a Tory newspaper asking me about the tax affairs of a former leader of the
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My friend Prem Sikka has an article on this theme in this week’s Tribune. It’s worth a read.

I’m not opposed to private equity. I can’t be, or at least I’d be a hypocrite if I were. I have run companies funded by
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The Observer ran a story under the above title yesterday. I had the following to say in it: Even if the super-rich deserve every penny
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Extraordinary headlines have been used to report the UK Institute of Directors’ (IoD) new report on capital gains tax and inheritance tax. For example, Accountancy
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You’d have thought KPMG could present an argument. That’s not true. There’s whole rafts of their paper on tax and corporate governance that are argument
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