Intellectually bankrupt and economically incoherent
Thursday, October 19th, 2006The Tories have published the findings of their Tax Reform Commission, which was, by the way wholly staffed by KPMG (I know, they asked to
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Accountants - purveryors of anti-social behaviour
Thursday, October 19th, 2006Accountancy Age published a letter from me today. The letter as submitted said: I note your report (October 12) on the future of tax avoidance.
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UK companies must disclose their tax risk
Thursday, October 19th, 2006Accountancy Age published an article under this title today. As the link is not available as yet, I’ve reproduced it here. This is important. The
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Bono - 'tax efficient manager' maybe
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006The International Herald Tribune published an article on Bono’s tax activities yesterday. A certain Richard Murphy is quoted in the report (although I have no
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Tax evasion - a threat to democratic government
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006Sweden provides yet more evidence of what happens when democratically elected politicians are found to be tax avoiders (and maybe evaders). The new centre-right government
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Tax paid by UK companies
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006The Guardian has given attention to a letter John Christensen and I wrote to that paper last week in which we said the following in
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What do these people want?
Monday, October 16th, 2006Just as Loughlin Hickey at KPMG says that “a purely legalistic approach to tax law design and revenue collection is not enough” then John Cullinane
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The FT misses the target on tax competition
Monday, October 16th, 2006The FT ran a story on tax competition today. Because FT stories are difficult to access, and because this seems important I have prepared my
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Who are KPMG trying to kid?
Monday, October 16th, 2006KPMG have circulated a news release following the successful meeting of the OECD in Seoul where 35 tax administrations agreed to co-operate more closely to
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