The reason why I have opposed IFRS 8 can be simply stated. Failure to recognise the duty a company owes to the places in which
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Taxgirl
1,400 miles for a tax dodge
As the Daily Telegraph has reported: Tesco is shipping CDs and DVDs to Switzerland and back in order to save customers as little as £1.56
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The CBI – dedicated to offshore, with UK taxes
The CBI has submitted its ideas to the government’s comprehensive spending review. Amongst their whizzo ideas are offshoring UK civil servant’s jobs. And cutting growth
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Hedge fund special purpose vehicles are used to break corporate governnance rules
If you have any doubt just read this about Zurich Financial Services in the FT. As the FT noted: Many mutual funds prohibit rapid turnover
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Progressive taxation makes sense
A question on this blog seems to require more significant treatment than a footnote largely hidden from view. Emily Coltman wrote: If more tax funds
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China
I’m not sure why yet, but this weekend readers in China became the second biggest group of readers of this blog for the first time.
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UK lawyers laundering Zambian money
We have often said that the UK is not just an offshore financial centre (and now an IMF study agrees). We’ve also said it’s a
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Domicile abuse is rising
As the Observer notes this morning: The number of people claiming non-domicile tax status has nearly doubled in three years, fuelling fears that Britain is
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