Will Hutton wrote a good piece in the Guardian on Monday on the obvious need for the use of bond finance to pay for the
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Private equity will survive paying tax
The FT reports this morning that: Buy-out groups could find ways to get round a proposed US tax rise by developing new financing structures or
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Should accounts be about stewardship?
I always believed the whole purpose of financial reporting was stewardship: the directors reporting to the shareholders how they had used the assets entrusted to
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Why the Bulgarian flat tax won’t work
There’s an interesting comment on the new Bulgarian flat tax at Novinite, which is a Sofia based news agency. It says: Certainly, [flt tax] has
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Bulgaria to have a flat tax
Bulgaria has announced it is to have a flat tax in 2008. Alvin Rabushka will be cock-a-hoop. But he shouldn’t be. As I’ve shown for
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The National Audit Office uses TJN language
The National Audit Office released a report on HMRC and the management of large business corporation tax. I was asked to contribute to this process.
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Patented tax avoidance
The NJ Biz reported yesterday that: Growing concern over a federal agency’s four-year-old decision to grant patents on tax strategies has some CPAs in New
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Ten years on – and domicile is still on the agenda
It was interesting find an article on on our domicile rule in the International Herald & Tribune of 5 July 1997. It said: A standard
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The IMF says aid needs rethinking
Nick Shaxson has written a first rate price on the TJN blog. He refers to IMF thinking on aid, just published, that says: We find
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