India tries to tame tax havens – upiasia.com. Undoubtedly black money is a global problem, but while it forms just about 4 to 10 percent
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PWC claims it did not audit Satyam
The Economic Times of India has reported: The questioning of Ramesh Rajan, chairman and CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, India (PwC) by CBI last week, has revealed
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US is going to pursue UBS
Reuters reports: The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it was pressing ahead with its five-month-old lawsuit against UBS AG to force the Swiss bank
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It’s not fair, blah, blah, blah
The predictable response to the new Banking Code has arrived. Accountancy Age has reported: Michael Wistow, head of tax at City law firm Berwin Leighton
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Labour hasn’t understood privatisation
From the FT: The UK government is to take over the East Coast rail route between London and Edinburgh from National Express, the struggling bus
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So where are the green shoots? And why the buoyancy amongst banks?
From the Guardian, this morning: The current recession is even deeper than had been thought – and started more than a year ago – as
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Greening RBS
FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – Green groups to sue over RBS investments. Environmental groups on Monday night launched what could be a
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MPs to file tax returns on public record?
David Drew, MP for Stroud in Gloucestershire has tabled amendments to the Parliamentary Standards Bill which should put the cat amongst the pigeons. The first
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Brown utterly misses the point
From the Guardian (edited): Gordon Brown unveiled a manifesto entitled Building Britain’s Future and a draft Queen’s speech containing 12 bills. The overall aim was
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