Accountants crave certainty. PKF are just the latest to show a desire for this wholly unattainable and illusory panacea. We delude ourselves if we think
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We want justice
Accountancy Age has reported that: The former KPMG partners accused of setting up illegal tax shelters have filed court documents requesting that the case against
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I can change my mind
A week or so ago I recommended an article on the web site of SB Consulting. Well I’ll tell you I regret doing so. This
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Tax planning will not pay
Accountancy Age reports: The taxman will no longer negotiate settlements with taxpayers who use tax planning that is challenged in court. HM Revenue & Customs
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Private equity under scrutiny
I wrote yesterday about what is, in common parlance, greed. It’s good to see that on the same day the FSA announced that banks will
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The rich are revolting
Which is an apt summary of an article in the Guardian today, which goes under the title “Wealth gap grows and solidarity fades as rebellion
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Tax havens stink
When the Economist ran a special feature on tax havens earlier this year they said: Today’s successful tax havens thrive not because of crockery, but
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Do tax incentives work?
The pressure to abolish tax reliefs expolited by private equity are rising. Rightly so. But as Vanessa Houlder points out in the FT today, the
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Frazzled
I noted this in the British Medical Journal last week, written by Dr Des Spence when discussing the way in which medicine is sold to
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