I couldn’t resist adding the following comment to AccountingWEB’s story on the Stones using the Netherland Antilles and the Netherlands as a way of avoiding
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KPMG, reputation and tax avoidance
Accountancy Age’s lead story this morning says that the symposium they held, to which I have referred several times on this blog, concluded that "tax
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In a nutshell
Sen Carl Levin seems to have summarised offshore staggeringly well in his opening comments to the Senate sub-committee on Tuesday: The key features of offshore
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TaxationWeb on US Senate
TaxationWeb gets insufficient attention in the UK tax world, but knocks spots off its rivals. Edited by Andrew Goodall, who is a serious thinker and
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Rolling Stones and the Netherlands
Most people think that tax havens are small islands with palm trees, remote from anywhere. But that just isn’t true. For example, Accountancy Age has
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The Senate hearing on tax havens
I like the report on the Senate Hearings on tax havens yesterday from Reuters. Take this for example: Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, senior Democrat on
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A cap on interest rates
Three years ago I did some work for Debt on Your Doorstep – who fight against the UK business in extortionate rate loans for people
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Values
I commented in somewhat similar fashion to the item noted below on ethics on AccountingWEB yesterday, and the following comment came back: Values? What values?
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The US Senate Report on Tax Havens
The United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs published its report entitled Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers, The
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