According to the FT this morning: Specialist teams are to be sent in to scrutinise law firms amid mounting concerns they are failing to fulfil
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I spoke at a fringe meeting at the Green Party last night. This is roughly what I said (as I never stick to my script):
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New corporation tax statistics are out from HMRC this morning. They can be looked at from all sorts of directions of course, but one of
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I have already mentioned the political furore slowly developing over HMRC’s bogus claims of compliance tax yield this morning, but I also think it important
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When writing about the reasons why offshore tax abuse should be made a strict liability offence in UK law last week I what is, perhaps,
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There has been much debate in the tax profession about the government’s proposal, included in a policy consultation published this week,  that failure to declare
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I note that the UK’s Chartered Institute of Taxation have issued a press release  that says in response to yesterday’s publication by the government of
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As Reuters have noted this morning: State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland  is preparing to offload the international arm of its Coutts private bank, separating it
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The FT has noted this morning that: A tax avoidance crackdown is set to turn the spotlight on previously undetected inheritance tax planning schemes, where
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