The following comes from para 5.136 of the Pre_Budget Report: The Government continues to monitor the £18 VAT-free threshold for imports of small consignments from
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The Pre-Budget Report had little to explicitly say on tax. No doubt the press releases to be issued soon will add much more. But it’s
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The most common complaint heard from tax practitioners is about the volume of legislation that they face. New research by the Tax Justice Network, UK
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The BBC has reported on a new report from the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the UN University. If you do nothing else
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As I noted on 27 November, Senator Walker, Chief Minister of Jersey agreed to debate with me ‘any time he likes at any time of
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Reports of a tax amnesty for those who have been hiding cash in off-shore accounts are sweeping the UK’s accounting press. Reports suggest that the
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Wednesday sees Gordon Brown’s final pre-budget report. He’s been in the job for almost ten years now and yet one of his explicit 1997 pre-election
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The Sunday Times has published a report which they have apparently prepared with Grant Thornton, chartered accountants, on the abuse of the UK’s tax laws
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There are times when I feel I am hitting my head against a brick wall when I am trying to persuade people that it is
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