In the 1980s I was a volunteer for Oxfam. At the time I remember discussing the role an accountant could play in campaigning on development
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Barclays ‘Head of Wealth Operations’ has been writing to his customers…. To tell them that running an offshore bank account may not always have been
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The UK’s ‘tax amnesty’ is a big issue for a lot of people. I know because the blogs I’ve written on the issue continue to
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Bloomberg has a story about Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee in the US. All three are, of course,
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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a great idea, in theory. But as I’ve also said for some time there are flaws in it.I highlighted
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The reason why I have opposed IFRS 8 can be simply stated. Failure to recognise the duty a company owes to the places in which
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For reasons best known to its owner I feature on the TaxGirl site this week. The least I can do is confess it!

As the Daily Telegraph has reported: Tesco is shipping CDs and DVDs to Switzerland and back in order to save customers as little as £1.56
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The CBI has submitted its ideas to the government’s comprehensive spending review. Amongst their whizzo ideas are offshoring UK civil servant’s jobs. And cutting growth
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