In the 1930’s Al Capone was targeted for tax fraud, not his other crimes. The reason was simple. That charge could be made to stick.
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I’ve spent a lot of time working on what is now called International Financial Reporting Standard 8. This is the new standard on ‘segment reporting’
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The FT confirms the story I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago – that the EU is looking hard at how to close loopholes
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I’ve reported here, and worked with papers like the Wall Street Journal to expose the behaviour of companies like Barclays Capital that exploit complex tax
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For those with the courage to watch, this YouTube link is to the a Labour party political broadcast from 1993. The promises are unambiguous. Tax
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A long standing and senior Jersey politician who I have advised on many occasions made a very odd complaint to me recently. He rather angrily
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I thought a meeting to be held on Tuesday 24 April 2007 in the Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Westminster SW1A 2LW might appeal to some
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In view of the previous story I was amused to note that the Hoover press re-issued Hall and Rabushka’s ‘Flat Tax’ book yesterday. Apparently it’s
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Flat taxes get more absurd by the day, and the injustice they create increases. Take the new Czech proposal as an example. The claim is
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