The future of pensions
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006Most people worry about their pensions. But the issues that worry them are usually whether they have paid in enough, or whether they have chosen
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Is a flat tax the best way forward for Europe?
Friday, August 11th, 2006Many accountants are attracted to the idea of a flat tax. The most common form of that tax, and the one most often referred to
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Accounting for smaller businesses
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006The Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Enterprises (the FRSSE) has been a part of small corporate life for almost a decade. Despite this it remains
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Fair value tax accounting
Friday, August 4th, 2006Accountancy has moved to ‘fair value accounting’ since the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards. Let’s put what this means in a nutshell. It used
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More on the Stones
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006I couldn’t resist adding the following comment to AccountingWEB’s story on the Stones using the Netherland Antilles and the Netherlands as a way of avoiding
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KPMG, reputation and tax avoidance
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Accountancy Age’s lead story this morning says that the symposium they held, to which I have referred several times on this blog, concluded that "tax
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In a nutshell
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Sen Carl Levin seems to have summarised offshore staggeringly well in his opening comments to the Senate sub-committee on Tuesday: The key features of offshore
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TaxationWeb on US Senate
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006TaxationWeb gets insufficient attention in the UK tax world, but knocks spots off its rivals. Edited by Andrew Goodall, who is a serious thinker and
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Rolling Stones and the Netherlands
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Most people think that tax havens are small islands with palm trees, remote from anywhere. But that just isn’t true. For example, Accountancy Age has
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