Shadow UK Chancellor George Osborne has sent me (and I suspect thousands of others) a link to his new idea – a Bill requiring publication
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PWC, a threat to the world’s poor
Sorry to bang on about the big firms of accountants this week – but their PR departments seem to be in tax overdrive mode at
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PWC, spinning for all they’re worth
PWC have published the results of a poll they took at their annual Global Tax Symposium. If you just read the press release you’d think
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The threat of the ‘Big 6’
On Friday I wrote about the ‘vision document’ produced by the six biggest firms of accountants in the world about where they see financial reporting
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Tax evasion – Turkish style
Reports suggest over 70% of income is not being declared for tax in Turkey. That might suggest the following to be the understatement of the
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The World Bank did not say the UK suffers a high rate of tax admin
Bloomberg has reported that ‘U.K. Company Tax a Bigger Burden Under Brown, World Bank Says’ That’s not true. The World Bank had PWC prepare a
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Corporations do pay tax
Neil McIntyre, a Canadian accountant quotes the following on his blog, with favour: No corporation ever paid a dime of tax. All taxes are paid
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Cash accounting – a non-starter
As some who read this may be aware, some of my work is undertaken on an academic basis. This gave me an opportunity late last
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KPMG on corporate tax
Just read KPMG’s Corporate Tax Rate Survey. How does Loughlin Hickey equate: “it appears to be economically and socially desirable for countries to strive for
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