Prem Sikka has a blog column on the Guardian site. Today he argues: International accounting standards are colonialism in another guise, allowing tax avoidance while
Read the full article…
When the world lives in fear of progressive taxes
The was an article in the Polish press yesterday with the title: Poland’s progressive tax system could alienate investors As the story said: Finance experts
Read the full article…
Tax havens
Just how to define a tax haven has been a problem for some of the best tax minds. The OECD and IMF have tried, and
Read the full article…
One third of large companies don’t pay tax – Radio 4 pick up the theme
The theme of this morning’s article in the FT on large companies not paying tax has been picked up on Radio 4’s World at One
Read the full article…
Never in the field of human saving has so much been taken from so many by so few
Another front page story of significance this morning. Ashely Seagar in the Guardian reports that City bonuses have reached £14 billion this year. He suggests
Read the full article…
One third of the UK’s largest companies pay not tax
Vanessa Houlder has a tax article on the front page of the FT today. In it she reports that one third of the UK’s 700
Read the full article…
Revamped Tax Research web site
I’ve been putting off revamping the Tax Research web site (as opposed to this blog) for some time. But I’ve finally got round to it.
Read the full article…
IFRS – compounding the problem, and auditors are neglecting their duty to say so
I wrote recently about how IFRS pension accounting would compound the current financial problems created by the irrational behaviour of the world’s so called financial
Read the full article…
How much do people really care about Inheritance Tax?
I spent some time discussing Inheritance Tax here last week. Now there’s the resounding evidence that most people neither care about it, or think it
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
