A safe bet?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008A C Grayling in the Guardian: Whatever new framework emerges from this mess, [short selling] and other potentially wrecking practices will have to come under
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PWC: friend and supporter of tax fraudsters
Sunday, September 21st, 2008There’s a good article in the Sunday Times today by Rob Watts that notes: Officials at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said they had launched
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Eevryone's at it
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008We heard extraordinary clamour about the inefficiency of HM Revenue & Customs when it lost data about child benefit claimants last year. The data in
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Granite is doing just nicely: shame about Northern Rock
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008As the Guardian has noted: Alistair Darling, criticised for nationalising the bank, insisted yesterday that the government had little option but to agree to swap
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The UK Tax Amnesty - here we go again
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Last year’s ‘tax amnesty’ in the UK worked: about 45,000 people who had hidden cash in tax havens paid up. Almost 20,000 more declared they
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Auditors assist fraud
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008The Scotsman has reported that Paddy Tomkins, Scotland’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, has identified a raft of improvements needed in the way police deal with
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96% think the TUC report on tax should have been on television
Sunday, February 17th, 2008One of the most unexpected spin offs from my work for the TUC has been its use in a study of reactions to the report
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Why is it accountants can only protest about HMRC?
Monday, February 4th, 2008I note that the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland has been yelling like mad about there being less than 90 days consultation period on
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What I'd like for Christmas: that Channel Island's bankers understand their money laundering laws
Friday, December 21st, 2007Two people claiming to be Channel Island’s financial services operators have been making extensive comments on two blogs on this site. Despite the claims of
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