The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that: Publicly traded companies reduced their U.S. taxable income by at least $34.8 billion in 2004 through potentially abusive
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Accountants DO encourage tax abuse
Stuart Jones posted a comment on my piece called ‘Do small businesses evade tax?’. He said: I’m sorry Richard but there are limits: ” ‚Ķ‚Ķthe
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Murphy v Walker – coming to a venue in Jersey
On yesterday’s Sunday Talkback show on BBC Radio Jersey Senator Frank Walker, the First Minister of the island (equivalent to prime minister was asked if
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Do small businesses evade tax?
Dennis Howlett has written some very confused articles on tax evasion over the last few days: so confused that I am not sure where Dennis
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Why was General Reinsurance fined?
There has been much comment on the size of the fines given by the Financial Services Authority to Warren Buffet’s company General Reinsurance. Most only
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A genuine tax simplification for micro-businesses
The cash accounting debate appears to have developed a life of its own. I admit I was surprised when Mike Truman of Taxation magazine joined
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The ECJ rules in favour of tax compliance
Friday’s news that the European Court of Justice has ruled that alcohol and cigarettes bought from other EU countries can only be exempt from domestic
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There is another Jersey
No, we’re not talking New Jersey here. We’re talking Jersey, Channel Islands. That place of which its First Minister, Frank Walker is prone to say
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PWC – your tax strategy is a matter of choice
PWC were kind enough to send me (and no doubt thousands of others) a mail yesterday on tax strategy. Since it was clearly marketing blurb
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