Paul Sagar tackles the issue here and says, quoting the Treasury just four years ago: [Section 765] was introduced to counter tax avoidance…it has done
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The IASB is in the dock
Another story mentioned here recently has moved on to the national press. The Observer has noted that: Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting
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Jersey and Guernsey: the VAT abuse continues
The Jersey VAT issue I noted here very recently appeared in the Observer today: The billionaire Barclay brothers are poised to join a fast-growing band
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The Blairite-Brownite vendetta is destroying Labour
Michael Meacher – Labour’s Future: The Blairite-Brownite vendetta is destroying Labour. The tragedy for the country is that half or more of the electorate is
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S.E.C. Accuses Countrywide’s Ex-Chief of Fraud
S.E.C. Accuses Countrywide’s Ex-Chief of Fraud – NYTimes.com. Angelo R. Mozilo, the self-made man from the Bronx who built Countrywide Financial into the nation’s largest
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When will we stop this abuse?
I reproduce the following from the Amazon UK web site, which you can access if you try to by a CD: Buying from Amazon’s Preferred
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Louder than words – and seriously missing the point
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council issued a report today called Louder than Words. I suggest that the title that the title I have given to
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If you’re serious about anti-avoidance keep Section 765
As the Guardian notes this morning: The government’s much-vaunted crackdown on corporate tax avoidance risks being seriously undermined by the repeal of a measure that
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Former FD attacks ‘silly’ audit reform
Former FD attacks ‘silly’ audit reform – Accountancy Age. Eric Tracey, a former partner at Deloitte & Touche and now senior non-executive director at Chloride
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