Here’s another classic from the Institute for Fiscal Studies: To discourage investors from hiding their wealth in foreign tax havens, the authors recommend exempting interest
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Why make a fuss about the IFS? Simple: it’s dangerous. Take this form this week’s KPMG tax newsletter: UK News Institute for Fiscal Studies study
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Over at TaxationWeb: Richard Murphy looks at a consultation document by HM Revenue & Customs and asks why the tax penalty regime seems to be
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I have a lot of time for Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) in the USA: most people have a lot of time for CTJ: few
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Accountancy Age has reported that: Multi-national companies would be prepared to open their books, on an anonymised basis, to convince the Treasury to introduce a
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This comes from Dell’s quarterly filing to May 2 2008: Income Taxes We reported an effective income tax rate of approximately 23.5% for the first
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California is one almighty mess: About one in every five dollars spent by the state is now money it doesn’t have. Given California is already
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I thought I should give the above conference a plug. As the organisers say: This conference on Political Philosophy and Taxation will address the issue
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Senator Carl Levin and the US Senate Permanent Sub Committee on Investigations have been back in action, looking at non-payment of payroll taxes in the
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