Ethic's test for tax planning
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006I recently applauded Mark Lee’s “cards on the table” test for acceptable tax planning. In this Mark says, when talking about the new requirement to
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Stealing other people's taxes
Monday, July 31st, 2006Yet more evidence has come to light that the UK’s Crown Dependencies’ main role in life is to steal tax revenue that rightfully belongs to
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The frustrations of IFRS
Monday, July 31st, 2006I’m working on this year’s Mind the Tax Gap at the moment. That’s an analysis of the tax paid by the top 50 companies in
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Let's be clear - Inheritance Tax is not double taxation
Monday, July 31st, 2006Jason Holden is proving to be a regular, and welcome reader of this blog. But I want to pick up on something he said in
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Ethical practice
Monday, July 31st, 2006There’s a good discussion at AccManPro on ethical consulting practice, so I won’t reproduce it here. Suffice to say, this gives a flavour: Which leaves
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Out of the mouths of journalists
Sunday, July 30th, 2006The Australian seems to have summed tax planning up quite nicely: The essence of tax planning is that a lawyer will fly close to the
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Taxilicious web site
Friday, July 28th, 2006Not everything on this site is as funny as those who write it might think, but some is very good. I couldn’t resist this. Those
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Why haven't we got someone like Senator Carl Levin?
Friday, July 28th, 2006The following message has been sent to me from the office of Senator Carl Levin in the USA, via Bill Fant at Citizens for Tax
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Whose tax return is it anyway?
Friday, July 28th, 2006I like a post by Mark Lee on his blog about the questions an accountant should ask their client when preparing their accounts. He’s right
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