Alistair Darling has given his first major interview to an accountancy paper, and has used it to tell Accountancy Age that: claims that the UK
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Blog traffic has been light, I know. There are two reasons. Even I get distracted from tax by holidays, sometimes. And the network I was
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The FT has published a survey that show most people in the UK think: 1) Globalisation is having a negative effect; 2) Most people cannot
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Accountancy Age has noted that: Private equity’s ‘failure to play the PR game’ has forced it on the defensive, the vice-chairman of the ICAEW corporate
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I happened to have received the Chancellor’s briefing for Labour MPs on today’s Lib Dem debate on tax and the rich. On domicile and residence
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Sometimes one has to look at things from the other side of the debate. Inverstoroffshore.com recently published this guide to “International Privacy and Security for
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Nick Shaxson has written a good blog under the above title on the TJN blog site. I recommend it.

The Tax Justice Network UK has submitted evidence to the House of Common’s Treasury Select Committee examining private equity. I was author of the submission.
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Good. Any other result would have been a disaster for corporate governance. Now, were were the auditors in all this? They were, inevitably, KPMG.