The Ethical Corporation has done an interesting review of Barclay’s 2005 CSR Report. In it they note that: In the foreword to Barclays’ most recent
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Czech’s offshore
As the US seeks to close offshore abuse, another market opens. Czech Business Weekly reports that as the number of wealthy in the Czech Republic
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The cost of tax havens
MSNBC has reported on findings to be discussed before a Senate Committee in the USA today. Key amongst the claims are that: Offshore tax havens
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Ethic’s test for tax planning
I recently applauded Mark Lee’s “cards on the table” test for acceptable tax planning. In this Mark says, when talking about the new requirement to
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Stealing other people’s taxes
Yet more evidence has come to light that the UK’s Crown Dependencies’ main role in life is to steal tax revenue that rightfully belongs to
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The frustrations of IFRS
I’m working on this year’s Mind the Tax Gap at the moment. That’s an analysis of the tax paid by the top 50 companies in
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Let’s be clear – Inheritance Tax is not double taxation
Jason Holden is proving to be a regular, and welcome reader of this blog. But I want to pick up on something he said in
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Ethical practice
There’s a good discussion at AccManPro on ethical consulting practice, so I won’t reproduce it here. Suffice to say, this gives a flavour: Which leaves
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Out of the mouths of journalists
The Australian seems to have summed tax planning up quite nicely: The essence of tax planning is that a lawyer will fly close to the
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