There is a fascinating article on country-by-country reporting and the Base Erosion and Profits Shifting process in this morning’s Tax Analysts (behind a paywall). There is much
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I realise I have not offered praise for HMRC where it is due: that is remiss of me. Let me make amends. I refer to
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I have to admit to being amused this morning that the FT has been daft enough to run a story that begins: Labour is in
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Labour has issued some new policy documents today. I, inevitably, followed up that on the economy and tax. In it Labour says: The next Labour
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Where did US quantitative easing funding end up? Andrew Smithers thinks he has the answer on the FT blog: I am sure he is right. That
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The FT has said this morning that the Office for Budget Responsibility has told George Osborne that there is a new £20 billion hole in
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The Guardian has an editorial today that marks the fact that we have had a o.5% bank base rate in the UK for five years
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The FT has a headline this morning that says: Japan considers tax on Bitcoin transactions as part of crackdown There is one good reason for
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HMRC have this week given publicity to their initial estimate of the VAT tax gap for 2012 – 13.  This is their estimate of the
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