More on the Stones
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006I couldn’t resist adding the following comment to AccountingWEB’s story on the Stones using the Netherland Antilles and the Netherlands as a way of avoiding
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KPMG, reputation and tax avoidance
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Accountancy Age’s lead story this morning says that the symposium they held, to which I have referred several times on this blog, concluded that "tax
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In a nutshell
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Sen Carl Levin seems to have summarised offshore staggeringly well in his opening comments to the Senate sub-committee on Tuesday: The key features of offshore
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TaxationWeb on US Senate
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006TaxationWeb gets insufficient attention in the UK tax world, but knocks spots off its rivals. Edited by Andrew Goodall, who is a serious thinker and
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Rolling Stones and the Netherlands
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Most people think that tax havens are small islands with palm trees, remote from anywhere. But that just isn’t true. For example, Accountancy Age has
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The Senate hearing on tax havens
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006I like the report on the Senate Hearings on tax havens yesterday from Reuters. Take this for example: Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, senior Democrat on
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Values
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006I commented in somewhat similar fashion to the item noted below on ethics on AccountingWEB yesterday, and the following comment came back: Values? What values?
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The US Senate Report on Tax Havens
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006The United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs published its report entitled Tax Haven Abuses: The Enablers, The
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Barclay's CSR
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006The Ethical Corporation has done an interesting review of Barclay’s 2005 CSR Report. In it they note that: In the foreword to Barclays’ most recent
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