Bring out your SIVs - before it's too late
Monday, November 5th, 2007The Times has reported that: The Securities and Exchange Commission, the US financial regulator, is understood to be conducting an investigation into Citigroup’s accounting of
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Northern Rock - the real questions it raises
Monday, November 5th, 2007I’ve been asked by a couple of people to do an update on Northern Rock. There are two reasons. The first is that, as the
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Adobe paying tax at 0.5% in Ireland
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Ken Griffin, one of Ireland’s best journalists, had an article in the Sunday Tribune this weekend looking at the tax affairs of two Adobe companies
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Tax, democracy, society and equality
Friday, October 19th, 2007Comments made following the launch of the TJN / AABA Code of Conduct for Taxation yesterday questioned the links between democracy and taxation. For example,
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Adam Applegarth
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007A member of the Treasury select committee this morning asked Adam Applegarth, CEO of Northern Rock: When did you qualify as a banker? The answer?:
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Just imagine - my pre-budget speech
Monday, October 15th, 2007I was at a party yesterday. I was challenged by an intelligent person I’d never met before but with whom I’d spent some time discussing
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Northern Rock - the Granite saga continues in the Commons
Sunday, October 14th, 2007The Evening Standard in London carried this report last week on the questioning of senior executives of the Financial Services Authority by the House of
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The UK Tax Gap exceeds £80 billion
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Slipped into yesterday’s PBR releases were two reports from HMRC – one called Measuring Indirect Tax Losses and the other called Methodologies for Measuring Direct
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Pre Budget Report - Live Blogging
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Starting themes: – No risk – Investment in health and education. Has ‘no risk’ replaced prudence? —————— Forecasts 3% growth – which sounds hard to
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