I’ve been doing a lot of work with the printed media of late on both sides of the Atlantic. A couple published last week. This
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The more you have the easier it is to avoid tax
Take this story from Forbes, for example. As they put it: Why pay tax if you don’t have to? Thomas Siebel used a corporate beast
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What the OECD had to say in Seoul
I was reminded by an email from Jeffrey Owens (head of tax at the OECD) that I have not given sufficient (in fact, any) coverage
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Plugging loopholes in the EU Savings Tax Directive
As ever, accountants are seeking to exploit any loophole they can find in taxation law and regulations. One of the more recent wheezes is to
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The FT on the IASB decision to engage with Publish What You Pay
The FT has covered the decision of the International Accounting Standards Board to engage with Publish What You Pay. Barney Jopson at the FT has
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Jersey – putting tax before regulation
The correspondence between Jersey’s tax officials, civil servants and politicians draw attention to some pretty unsavoury consequences of that island’s new trust laws. It would
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Jersey – callously indifferent to tax evasion
The difficulty of dealing with the mails that have come out of Jersey in the last few days is knowing where to start. There is
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Polly Toynbee gets it right again
Just read it. It’s hard to say anything else about an article entitled ‘Taxes are a moral good, and avoiding your fair share is a
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GSK pay up
Earlier this year I upset Roger Emerson, head of tax at GlaxoSmithKline by the comments I made on page 19 of the report Sustainability published
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