The FT warns this morning that there are widespread fears the the government will have to bail out RBS, again. RBS passed the so-called European stress test in
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We’re going to have more quantitative easing. £75 billion of it. Let’s be clear what that really means. In effect it means that the Bank
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The Cayman Islands official news service hasn’t taken kindly to Cayman being ranked at number 2 in the new Tax Justice Network Financial Secrecy Index.
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London features heavily in the Tax Justice Network’s new Financial Secrecy Index. Whilst the UK comes in at number 13 places for which the UK is wholly responsible
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I have now published (at the request of those who supplied them to me) the drafts of the EU Accounting and Transparency directives as they apply to country-by-country
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My wife was preparing a tutorial / seminar on anxiety yesterday (she’s a GP) and drew my attention to the Guidelines in Practice from NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence)
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Accountancy Age reported this today: The UK has the second lowest corporate tax burdens in the G8, research has shown. A study by UHY Hacker Young,
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Phillip Blond is one of those annoying people (like Maurice Glasman really, and I know them both). He can say some really interesting things sometimes
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I wrote the following for CIPFA’s Public Finance blog last week and now share it here: “A decade ago almost no one had ever heard of Tobin
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