MSNBC has reported on findings to be discussed before a Senate Committee in the USA today. Key amongst the claims are that: Offshore tax havens
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Ethic’s test for tax planning
I recently applauded Mark Lee’s “cards on the table” test for acceptable tax planning. In this Mark says, when talking about the new requirement to
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Stealing other people’s taxes
Yet more evidence has come to light that the UK’s Crown Dependencies’ main role in life is to steal tax revenue that rightfully belongs to
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Out of the mouths of journalists
The Australian seems to have summed tax planning up quite nicely: The essence of tax planning is that a lawyer will fly close to the
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Quaker principles? Well, maybe not if you’re Cadbury’s
I recently mentioned Quaker business principles here, which are something I know a bit about. So it was good to note that Accountancy Age have
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Why haven’t we got someone like Senator Carl Levin?
The following message has been sent to me from the office of Senator Carl Levin in the USA, via Bill Fant at Citizens for Tax
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Information exchange
Accountancy Age has reported that HM Revenue & Customs: HM Revenue and Customs hopes to make progress on negotiations with the Cayman Islands, China, Germany,
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The price of VAT fraud
The Federation of Technological Industries has reported an article by Paul Lashmar in the Independent on Sunday. Unfortunately the IoS charges an absurd £1 an
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Innocent until proven guilty
I am all in favour of people paying the right amount of tax. I have little tolerance for anything else. But I’m going to add
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