Richard Lambert, the head of the Confederation of British Industry spoke to the TUC today. This spirit of cooperation is the first bit of good
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£757,000
Question: What’s £757,000? Answer: The average earnings of a partner in PWC in the UK last year. Justification: There isn’t one. Why?: They take no
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Ten key inequality facts
These were published by the TUC yesterday. I thought them worth repeating as they’re sobering: The top 1 per cent own 21 per cent of
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Ignoring corruption is an act of corruption
Legalbrief in South Africa has a report on reaction to the leaking of the Kroll report into corruption by the Moi government in Kenya, covered
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Virtual tax
AccountingWEB had a recent article on how the ‘virtual world’, such as Second Life, is taxed. I believe that the answer is simple: virtual worlds
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Celebrating Diversity
Not strictly on topic, but I want to give a plug to a new book by a friend of mine, and fellow accountant, Atul Shah.
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The TUC and the domicile rule
There’s good coverage for the TUC’s backing of the campaign to abolish the domicile rule, launched yesterday. The Independent heads their report: Close tax loophole
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TUC supports abolition of the domicile rule
The Observer has this morning covered the calculations undertaken by Tax Research LLP into the cost of the UK’s domicile rule; work that was sponsored
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The domicile rule costs £4.3 billion
I was challenged when recording Hecklers for Radio 4 recently to estimate the tax lost as a result of the UK’s domicile rule. And I
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