To date Jersey has had a quite unusual claim it can make in the financial services world. Unlike the UK, for example, it apparently requires
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Oxford Centre for Business Taxation and the Monaco Boys
The Guardian reported yesterday on the habit of the “Monaco Boys” who live in that principality and work in the UK. Under the UK’s 90
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Microsoft does tax avoidance in secret
In November last year the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft was saving as much as $500 million a year in tax by the use
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An accountants duty is to do the right thing
John Cullinane of Deloittes argued in an Accountancy Age podcast yesterday (link to follow when I can find it) that an accountant can have their
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Ken Lay Dead
Accountancy Age reports that Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron has died. Well, no one takes pleasure in such news, and I offer normal condolences
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Make tax returns public
Alex Hawkes, who is Accountancy Age’s tax hack, talks on his blog about making tax returns public as a way of shaming people into tax
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£3.5 billion – the cost of tax avoidance
The Wall Street Journal article referred to below concerns an obscure Delaware corporation, Augustus Funding LLC. It so happens however that the LLC in question
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Tax incentives produce perverse effects – another nail in the Celtic Tiger’s coffin
The Irish Sunday Times ran an interesting article today. Anyone should read it for the mixed package of messages it offers. First of all ordinary
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Tax professionals whould know better
Peter Penneycard, National Director of Tax at PKF, is quoted as saying “There is a huge gap between fraud and tax planning but the Government’s
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