There are times when I feel I am hitting my head against a brick wall when I am trying to persuade people that it is
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We want a General Anti Avoidance Rule!
I’m always pleased to find common ground with people. On page 16 of this weeks Accountancy Age Richard Mannion, national tax director of Smith and
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Why country-by-country reporting is essential
Dennis Howlett has posted an interesting piece on IFRS8 and the campaign, of which I am a part, to require that companies disclose trading information
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IFRS 8 – Segment reporting and the ongoing need for country-by-country reporting
The International Accounting Standards Board has issued IFRS 8 today on segment reporting. In their press release they did however add the following comment: The
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Tax minimisation is not ethical
It’s been put to me that tax minimisation is required by professional ethics. I don’t agree. There are two reasons: 1. Firstly, reasonable code of
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Tax compliance
Several people have challenged me about what tax compliance might be in comments in other postings on this blog. So I thought I’d better tackle
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Revealing tax researh from KPMG
Dennis Howlett gets it spot on with this one. Go to his place to read it. If evidence is needed that advisers are out of
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Tax and society
It’s OK to quote Polly Toynbee now. David Cameron does. I’m on side, apparently. So take this from her column in the Guardian today: Yesterday,
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It is high time that the CBI raised its game.
As anyone who has read the UK press in the last couple of days knows, they’ve been issuing their usual bleat in advance of their
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