The following comes from para 5.136 of the Pre_Budget Report: The Government continues to monitor the £18 VAT-free threshold for imports of small consignments from
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The most common complaint heard from tax practitioners is about the volume of legislation that they face. New research by the Tax Justice Network, UK
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The BBC has reported on a new report from the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the UN University. If you do nothing else
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Reports of a tax amnesty for those who have been hiding cash in off-shore accounts are sweeping the UK’s accounting press. Reports suggest that the
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Wednesday sees Gordon Brown’s final pre-budget report. He’s been in the job for almost ten years now and yet one of his explicit 1997 pre-election
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I’m always pleased to find common ground with people. On page 16 of this weeks Accountancy Age Richard Mannion, national tax director of Smith and
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It’s OK to quote Polly Toynbee now. David Cameron does. I’m on side, apparently. So take this from her column in the Guardian today: Yesterday,
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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that: Publicly traded companies reduced their U.S. taxable income by at least $34.8 billion in 2004 through potentially abusive
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Stuart Jones posted a comment on my piece called ‘Do small businesses evade tax?’. He said: I’m sorry Richard but there are limits: ” ‚Ķ‚Ķthe
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