The subject of charities and ethics is being openly debated following the revelation that millions of pounds of Comic Relief funds have been invested in
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David Cay Johnston has a fascinating article on Tax Analysts, now released from behind a firewall. As he notes: The fast-increasing use of tax incentives
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I’ve just realised HMRC issued a new VAT gap estimate late last week. This is it: To put the data in context the time series
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There are occasions when the sheer crass stupidity of ministers driven by ‘free market’ dogma brings out the Victor Meldrew in me. This was one,
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I got the following press release this morning and thought it useful enough to share in full: The Christian political think-tank Ekklesia has endorsed a
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The issue of domicile he re-surfaced in the comments on this blog. I wrote the blog reproduced below in March 2007, but nothing of real substance
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This is in an FT email this morning: Now the article is by Janan Ganesh, for whom I have little time, so I’m not suggesting
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There are occasions when I find my own professional institute – the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – intensely annoying. I can even
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Will Hutton said this yesterday in the Observer: It is an incidental sentence, but it brought me up short. By 2018, general government consumption will
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