My wife and I were discussing education at the weekend. This is part of the commonplace parental obsession with the subject, but also focused on
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IFRS 8 is the IASB standard on segment reporting on which I have been campaigning for longer than I now care to remember. IFRS 8
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I’ve said before. I won’t gloat. Wolfowitz has gone from the World Bank. That had to be. Now it’s time for a proper process of
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The US is focusing heavily on its ‘tax gap’ – the sum of at least $345 billion it does not collect in tax a year,
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The Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange, Clara Furse, has had a rant about taxation. According to Accountancy Age she said: We (public companies)
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There’s a blog with this title at TJN. Well worth reading.

The Jersey Evening Post has reported that two hospitals on Jersey are to be sold for development. The States is facing a deficit of around
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Dennis Howlett has followed up my blog on tax investigations with some more sound advice. I have to reiterate his first point. Avoiding investigation altogether
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AccountingWEB has been a having a discussion of tax investigations. This is topical. The UK’s ‘tax amnesty’ will give rise to a fair number, either
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