Ethic's test for tax planning
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006I recently applauded Mark Lee’s “cards on the table” test for acceptable tax planning. In this Mark says, when talking about the new requirement to
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Innocent until proven guilty
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006I am all in favour of people paying the right amount of tax. I have little tolerance for anything else. But I’m going to add
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How to cut taxes when you're already tried everything else - the Bush way
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006The New York Times reports on the best known way to cut tax revenues and increase the Tax Gap anyone knows of: The federal government
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Why don't businesses profit maximise?
Monday, July 24th, 2006I’ve been asked why businesses do not profit maximise (see my earlier post in which I said this). There are several reasons, but I’ll try
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Tax and Codes of Conduct
Monday, July 24th, 2006Dennis Howlett has been musing on tax over at Accmanpro. It’s worth having a look at what he’s thinking. I can see where he’s coming
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Does business have to make a profit?
Monday, July 24th, 2006The Tax Justice Network email forum has been seeing an interesting debate on tax, ethics and all such issues during which criticism arose of the
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There is always more than one way to finance a project
Monday, July 24th, 2006One of the regular readers of this blog is Chris Steel. I admire Chris a lot, for a great many reasons. One of them is
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ICAEW Practice assurance
Friday, July 21st, 2006There are those who I know who forget that despite all the work I do on tax, corporate accountability and development I am also a
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KPMG and CSR – or why we’ve moved on to corporate accountability
Thursday, July 20th, 2006Sorry to bang on about KPMG, but there really is quite a lot in their report on the future of the taxation which is worthy
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