Accountancy Age has reported: Non-domiciled steel billionaire Swaraj Paul has pledged to finance the election campaign of Gordon Brown if the prime minister calls a
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Tax haven UK – 4 – Never file a set of accounts
One of the chief characteristics of a tax haven is that it provides a secrecy space – an opportunity for something to happen about which
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Risk is unevenly distributed ignorance
I wrote about the problems created by excess liquidity and the diversification of risk yesterday. So too did John Kay in the FT. He said:
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Would a little less liquidity and a bit more responsibility help?
The Guardian and many others report on Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund losses this morning: The viability of elaborate computer-driven hedge funds came under the microscope
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Fraud needs tax havens to survive
According to Channel Register yesterday: research figures published by accounting firm BDO Stoy Hayward, [show] there were 141 business frauds (reflecting a 42 per cent
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Tax Haven UK – 3 – Nominees
I’m running an occasional series on why the UK is a tax haven. I’ve already dealt with the domicile rule and the fact UK companies
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Arctic Systems: LLP’s can solve the problem
Dennis Howlett has written a thoughtful review of my paper on small business taxation. Unfortunately, I think he misses quite a number of the points
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The FT on domicile
The FT has a first rate article on domicile this morning by Vanessa Houlder, recently voted tax journalist of the year. She rehearses a lot
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Pope to condemn tax avoidance and evasion
The Times has reported that: Pope Benedict XVI is working on a doctrinal pronouncement that will condemn tax evasion as “socially unjust”, according to Vatican
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