Changes at HMRC
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Dave Hartnett, Acting Chairman of HMRC, has announced: ‘We have created four, clearly defined operational director general roles of Business Tax (Melanie Dawes); Personal Tax
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Sinful taxation
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008According to the New York Times a US to professor, Susan Hamill, has suggested that 18 US states seriously violate biblical principles in the way
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Selfish capitalism is bad for our mental health
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Oliver James has a fascinating piece in the Guardian today to coincide with the publication of his book “Selfish Capitalism”. I’ve not read that yet,
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What can an accountant do?
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Stuart Jones, a practicing chartered accountant posed an excellent question on my blog entitled “Corruption – alive and well”. He said: I’m with you 100%
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The IMF are coming - let's get the prosecutions rolling
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008The IMF is undertaking reviews of many offshore territories in 2008 with regard to their money laundering compliance. Jersey is rolling out new legislation every
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2008 - a year in prospect
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008I’ve suggested 2007 was a good year for those working on tax justice issues. What does 2008 hold? Given that the role of taxation in
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2007 - a year in retrospect
Monday, December 31st, 20072007 was a good year for tax justice. Most important of all was a serous change in the development community. There is now significant support
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Free markets require fair taxation
Monday, December 31st, 2007It’s a fact that we cannot do without taxes. That’s because we cannot do without government. And we cannot do without markets either, at least
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The Tote's move to Alderney: the worst signal to tax avoiders that the government could give?
Friday, December 28th, 2007The Guardian has reported that: Totesport Casino, an internet arm of government-owned bookmaker the Tote, is switching its operations to the offshore tax haven of
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