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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Which side of the fence are you on?
Dennis Howlett posted the following comment yesterday, but since not everyone looks at the comments I thought I’d share it more broadly: You and KPMG
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Mark Lee’s card trick – the real test of acceptability?
The debate about tax and morality continues at AccountingWEB (which is a closed shop to those who do not register). I regret that much of
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An open invitation to KPMG to talk
KPMG have published a report on discussion that took place at a symposium they organised on 25 May. The symposium was entitled ‘From debate to
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