Dennis Howlett has written some very confused articles on tax evasion over the last few days: so confused that I am not sure where Dennis
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There has been much comment on the size of the fines given by the Financial Services Authority to Warren Buffet’s company General Reinsurance. Most only
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Friday’s news that the European Court of Justice has ruled that alcohol and cigarettes bought from other EU countries can only be exempt from domestic
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PWC were kind enough to send me (and no doubt thousands of others) a mail yesterday on tax strategy. Since it was clearly marketing blurb
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Nichola Ross-Martin, editor of AccountingWEB has written a tetchy response to an observation I made on that web site in which I criticised her call
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Rumour reached me that Ernst & Young are making 15 VAT staff, including two partners, redundant. Word on the street is that clients do not
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My Dutch colleagues have given me feedback on the reception of the report we co-authored for SOMO to which I referred yesterday. The report, entitled
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Dennis Hewlett at AccManPro has been seeking to engage me on the issue of government spending. I have been reluctant to respond as he would
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John Christensen reports on the TJN blog on yesterday’s launch of the new Foreign Office film on corruption. As he says: The film is a
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