Early Day Motion on Tax Avoidance
Friday, October 13th, 2006The UK’s Parliament has an odd mechanism called an ‘Early Day Motion’ (EDM). These are explained in detail here. What they really do is give
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An accountant at the UN
Friday, October 13th, 2006The UN is not the place at which you expect to go as an accountant. But I assure you, it is interested in the subject
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The IMF and Flat Tax
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Thee IMF has issued a new report on flat tax. Entitled ‘The “Flat Tax(es)”: Principles and Evidence’ he report has been written by Mick Keen,
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Tax competition
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Earlier this week the CBI said that UK companies are planning to flee the UK because of our increasing tax burdens. John Christensen and I
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The UN
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006The UN is a strange organisation. The US by and large hates it. But if you say in conversation to anyone that you’re going there,
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Jersey gets it wrong, again
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Jersey is publishing another new tax law proposal today (follow the links from here). This is its third in a couple of years, and the
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BBC Panorama - David Mills
Monday, October 9th, 2006I was pleased to take part in BBC’s Panorama programme last night. The programme discussed David Mills, the former husband of UK cabinet minister Tessa
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Does HSBC know what it is doing?
Friday, October 6th, 2006It’s been reported that HSBC are thinking of leaving the UK because of our tax system. It is said that the group’s head of financial
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Ukraine - shattering those flat tax myths
Friday, October 6th, 2006There was a fascinating story in the Kyiv Post yesterday (and yes, it always surprise me quite what it’s possible to find on the Internet).
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