There’s a first rate article on flat tax in a Czech publication called TOL today. Adam Cardais says: Karl Marx might be shocked to see
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Tax Haven UK – 2 – Bearer Shares
Alistair Darling has said the UK is not a tax haven. That is not true. It is, using any reasonable definition, including that which I
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Accounting for PFI
Bonds are on my agenda right now. In fact, approximately half my professional work is currently dedicated to their use in the public sector. So
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Will Hutton on the need for bond finance
Will Hutton wrote a good piece in the Guardian on Monday on the obvious need for the use of bond finance to pay for the
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Private equity will survive paying tax
The FT reports this morning that: Buy-out groups could find ways to get round a proposed US tax rise by developing new financing structures or
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Should accounts be about stewardship?
I always believed the whole purpose of financial reporting was stewardship: the directors reporting to the shareholders how they had used the assets entrusted to
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Why the Bulgarian flat tax won’t work
There’s an interesting comment on the new Bulgarian flat tax at Novinite, which is a Sofia based news agency. It says: Certainly, [flt tax] has
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Bulgaria to have a flat tax
Bulgaria has announced it is to have a flat tax in 2008. Alvin Rabushka will be cock-a-hoop. But he shouldn’t be. As I’ve shown for
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The National Audit Office uses TJN language
The National Audit Office released a report on HMRC and the management of large business corporation tax. I was asked to contribute to this process.
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