The Jersey Evening Post published an article on Monday quoting me that was riddled with errors. It said: A CRITIC of the Island’s finance industry
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MG Rover debacle can’t hide accounting regulation failures
I mentioned my concern about the fine imposed by accountancy regulators on Deloitte yesterday. My friend and colleague Prof Prem Sikka has addressed the issue
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In this parliament HMRC will lose 26% of its staff and £5.5 billion of its budget
The above numbers were quoted by Catherine McKinnell MP, shadow treasury secretary, at the ARC tax gap conference I attended this morning. The data is
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David Cameron takes leave of his senses as he declares the UK has no tax havens left
Hansard reported the following exchange in the Commons yesterday: Fiona O’Donnell (East Lothian) (Lab): All 10 tax havens among the UK’s overseas territories and Crown dependencies committed
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Why the tax gap is important – even if the Tories seem intent on ignoring it
I was at a debate in parliament this morning organised by the ARC union – which represents senior staff at HM Revenue & Customs. The
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Is £14 million enough to tell the accountancy profession to behave?
Big 4 accountants Deloitte have been fined £14 million for breaches of professional rules relating to conflicts of interest during their involvement with MG Rover.
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What is the Green New Deal?
People have been asking me what the Green New Deal is. ANdrew Simms wrote the following summary. The Green New Deal is: 1. A massive
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Dear George, You’re not delivering a recovery but something more like a bung
According to the Guardian: A bullish chancellor will claim [today] that critics of his deficit reduction plans are at a loss to explain why the
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If the solution is not a Green New Deal then what is it? Who else has a coherent alternative narrative?
Larry Elliott asks a a key question in the Guardian this morning: Are we content with recovery requiring households to get deeper into debt? As
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