There was an extraordinary piece of information in the Observer newspaper on Sunday. It was noted with regard to equity investors that: Retail investors have
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Jersey: costing £500 million in tax evasion to the UK a year, at least
Jersey has published its figures for tax retained under the EU Savings Tax Directive in 2007. The press release they put out is misleading. I
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Auditors: do they really make any difference any more?
Accountancy Age reported last week that: The push for auditor liability limitation in the US received a boost today when an influential audit group threw
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CORRUPTION: Norway Turns the Spotlight on Tax Havens
A new commission appointed by Norway will investigate ways of putting a stop to the huge flows of money into tax havens. Tax evasion and
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Osborne: still playing politics with tax
The Guardian has reported that: The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, yesterday promised a radical reform of fuel duty that would have given motorists an immediate
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Why ask the accountants? They’re the problem, not the solution
On Thursday (when I was at a conference and out of blogging action) the FT reported that: The US Internal Revenue Service is to solicit
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A G8 removed from the real world
Larry Elliott wrote about the G8 summit in the Guardian this morning: If the G8 was doing its job properly, this week’s communique would be
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Time to say goodbye to equities
In 2003 I co-authored a paper with Colin Hines and Alan Simpson MP called People’s Pensions: New Thinking for the 21st Century. It was published
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Father Ted’s tax haven
The Irish have a Tax Commission in progress at present. It’s latest mad idea in a country that already seems to believe that tax abuse
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