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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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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A cap on interest rates
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Three years ago I did some work for Debt on Your Doorstep – who fight against the UK business in extortionate rate loans for people
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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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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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Czech's offshore
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006As the US seeks to close offshore abuse, another market opens. Czech Business Weekly reports that as the number of wealthy in the Czech Republic
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The cost of tax havens
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006MSNBC has reported on findings to be discussed before a Senate Committee in the USA today. Key amongst the claims are that: Offshore tax havens
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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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The frustrations of IFRS
Monday, July 31st, 2006I’m working on this year’s Mind the Tax Gap at the moment. That’s an analysis of the tax paid by the top 50 companies in
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