Try this for a sobering start to the week. Provident Financial will offer you a loan of £500 over 23 weeks repayable at £32 a
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I recently mentioned my occasional involvement in the campaign to impose an interest rate cap on those lenders who charge exorbitant fees in the secondary
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Accountancy Age are asking this question in an on-line poll. I have my own opinion. I thought I’d encourage others to express theirs. Vote here.

Companies the world over seem to call for two things. The first is a simplified tax code. The second are lower tax rates. Nowhere though
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People sometimes ask why the Tax Justice Network links tax and corruption quite so closely. This morning the FT reports: Vetco International, the UK oil
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If you want to see the world in a new way, just go here. It’s sobering.

Alex Hawkes at Accountancy Age has interviewed Helen Weir, FD of Lloyds TSB. Unlike HSBC who recently threatened to quit the UK she denied Lloyds
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I’ve been called by quite a lot of news agencies about the Bono story, which has not hit the New York Times. This is what
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I’ve been putting up some links to offshore suppliers of corruption services of late. This one is sickening. It’s not difficult to see why the
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