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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KPMG’s new report isn’t all bad (form my point of view). Take this for example on general anti-avoidance provisions, of which I am firmly in
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On 9 November last year I did a long blog on the Jyske Bank, based in Denmark. To cut to the quick, that blog suggested:
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I’ve been called by quite a lot of news agencies about the Bono story, which has not hit the New York Times. This is what
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