I was reminded by an email from Jeffrey Owens (head of tax at the OECD) that I have not given sufficient (in fact, any) coverage
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As ever, accountants are seeking to exploit any loophole they can find in taxation law and regulations. One of the more recent wheezes is to
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The Tax Justice Network in Jersey visited France at the weekend. One of the people they met was a bank manager with a large French
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The Independent on Sunday covered the Carl Levin US Senate report today. The comment given to them by the UK Treasury is the most telling
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Dennis Howlett has been musing on developments in the market for the Big 4 as pressure is brought to bear upon them. What he says
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This is not an IT techy site. Nor, come to that, am I much of an IT techy. Well, only a bit. But for the
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The FT has covered the decision of the International Accounting Standards Board to engage with Publish What You Pay. Barney Jopson at the FT has
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I mentioned earlier this week that the International Accounting Standards Board had the chance to do something amazing this week. I’m sorry to say they
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The correspondence between Jersey’s tax officials, civil servants and politicians draw attention to some pretty unsavoury consequences of that island’s new trust laws. It would
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