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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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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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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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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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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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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The Forum of Private Business in the UK, inspired by a remarkable record shop owner turned campaigner Richard Allen, has been campaigning against the VAT
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Nick Cohen wrote eloquently in the Observer yesterday about the knighthood given to Philip Green. He noted that: “in the spring, the BBC’s Money Programme
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I have always had a considerable problem with the concept of trusts, even as a practicing tax accountant. But I have much more of a
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