A new legal opinion, issued to coincide with the report of the Banking Commission, is a damning indictment of International Financial Reporting Standards, and with it
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Cameron & Osborne: international tax avoidance advisers
As the FT notes this morning: Dozens of big and medium-sized UK companies are rushing to set up offices in tax havens such as Jersey, Malta, Ireland,
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Cadbury’s: a corrupted culture
The FT this morning reveals something that has, to a very large degree, been known for a very long time – which is that Cadbury’s in its pre and post
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Farewell QE – now can we have Green quantitative easing now, please?
QE’s potential demise in the US has sent the world’s stock markets into a downward spin, providing the surest indication of where much of the benefit of this money printing exercise went. QE
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The EU tells countries not doing automatic information exchange get on with it, or be fined
Reuters has reported: The European Commission told five European Union countries on Thursday they must enforce new EU laws aimed at tackling tax evasion within
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Union says the government should back the Fair Tax Mark
The PCS union (for whom I have done work on occassion) has issued the following press release: George Osborne must endorse tax transparency scheme If
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The Fair Tax Mark addresses its critics
I wrote a blog for the Fair Tax Mark site this morning, which began saying: Ben Saunders, a Chartered Tax Adviser who works for Tolley, the publishing company
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Vince Cable stokes the debate on a separate tax rate for Northern Ireland
Vince Cable discussed a 12.5% corporation tax rate for Northern ireland on the Stephen Nolan show this morning. Listen here. He made two claims. The first was that the
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How can a company go bust owing £58 million in tax?
The Scotsman has reported: A TEMPORARY employment agency has gone into liquidation owing HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) £58 million in unpaid tax. Edinburgh-based Employ-E,
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