News is out that PWC’s own tax affairs are subject to IRS audit in the USA. To some extent I’m not surprised; any large organisation
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Death of the Honest Corporate Tax Reporting Act
OK, it’s probably only California that could have thought of an Honest Corporate Tax Reporting Act. But it’s a great idea because it required companies
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Stephen Byers does it again
Stephen Byers has responded to Polly Toynbee’s article in the Guardian newspaper in which she attacked his plan to abolish inheritance tax, on which I
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You couldn’t make it up……
Days after John Christensen raised searching questions of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) because it fails to deal with the high level supply of
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Taking Cameron seriously
I’d like to take David Cameron, leader of the UK’s Conservative party seriously. I believer, very strongly, in parliamentary democracy. As such is depressed me
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Lib Dems go for GAAR
I shared a platform with Vincent Cable, the UK Liberal Democrats shadow chancellor earlier this year. Richard Teather, the Adam Smith Institutes’ main proponent of
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Bob McIntyre on PWC’s Total Tax Contribution
I commented recently on PWC’s Total Tax Contribution. A couple of days after doing so PWC asked me if I’d comment on behalf of civil
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Inheritance Tax – pleased to stick out from the crowd
Accountancy Age covered the Inheritance Tax issue whilst I was offline. I note they say that there is an increasing body of opinion mounting against
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The Revenue’s reaction to TJN position on corruption
The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs reacted to criticisms from the Tax Justice Network made by John Christensen when he spoke to the Royal Geographic
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