Wednesday sees Gordon Brown’s final pre-budget report. He’s been in the job for almost ten years now and yet one of his explicit 1997 pre-election
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Managament sense, by the column
There are times when I feel I am hitting my head against a brick wall when I am trying to persuade people that it is
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We want a General Anti Avoidance Rule!
I’m always pleased to find common ground with people. On page 16 of this weeks Accountancy Age Richard Mannion, national tax director of Smith and
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IFRS 8 – Segment reporting and the ongoing need for country-by-country reporting
The International Accounting Standards Board has issued IFRS 8 today on segment reporting. In their press release they did however add the following comment: The
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Revealing tax researh from KPMG
Dennis Howlett gets it spot on with this one. Go to his place to read it. If evidence is needed that advisers are out of
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Tax and society
It’s OK to quote Polly Toynbee now. David Cameron does. I’m on side, apparently. So take this from her column in the Guardian today: Yesterday,
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It is high time that the CBI raised its game.
As anyone who has read the UK press in the last couple of days knows, they’ve been issuing their usual bleat in advance of their
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The Tax Gap hurts shareholders
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that: Publicly traded companies reduced their U.S. taxable income by at least $34.8 billion in 2004 through potentially abusive
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Do small businesses evade tax?
Dennis Howlett has written some very confused articles on tax evasion over the last few days: so confused that I am not sure where Dennis
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