How many audit failures will it take for the FRC to admit that the failures are systemic?
Tuesday, October 17th, 2017Accountancy Age has reported: The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined EY £1.8m over misconduct in relation to the audit of the financial statements of
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There seems to be no link between competitiveness and tax rate
Saturday, October 7th, 2017A long time colleague, and one-time co-author, Francis Weyzig, has published some interesting research on his blog. As he says: The Netherlands just joined the
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Is Facebook still underpaying UK tax?
Thursday, October 5th, 2017A year ago Facebook said it would shift its billing for its UK operations to this country from Ireland so that we could see what
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Don't just make Ireland collect Apple's tax, charge them a penalty for failing to do so
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017The European Commission has taken Ireland to court for failing to collect the €13 billion tax demand on Apple imposed last year. The press release
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Beating Amazon on tax is vital: it's about shaping the society we want to live in
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017The tax affairs of large US companies operating in Europe will attract a lot of attention today. It is expected that the EU will publish
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KPMG decision is making a laughing stock of the Financial Reporting Council
Friday, September 22nd, 2017The best comment I have seen on the Financial Reporting Council’s whitewash of KPMG’s failure to spot that HBOS was bust in 2008 when Northern
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Appealing for aid on the basis that there are no tax havens in the Caribbean is not going to work
Wednesday, September 20th, 2017Guy Hewitt, who is the Barbados High Commissioner to the UK, has an article in the Guardian this morning arguing that it is is grossly
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Next time it will be different. That's because it will be much worse
Friday, September 15th, 2017The Tax Justice UK to mark the tenth anniversary of the Northern Rock crisis at the Royal Society of Arts last night was fascinating. Prof
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We don't need to give money to the BVI: loans would do a better job
Friday, September 15th, 2017Boris Johnson is apparently struggling to find ways to give development aid to the UK Overseas Territories that are too wealthy to benefit from the
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