IFAC issues irreconcilable nonsense
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Accountancy Age has reported that The Translational Auditors Committee (TAC) of the Forum of Firms, a unit of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), has
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All's not well offshore
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I seem to have touched a raw nerve in Jersey and Guernsey with a recent blog (There are lies, d***ed lies and some in the
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Conrad Black gets 6 years
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Quite right to. And this is worth remembering: At Chicago’s federal court, Judge Amy St Eve told the former owner of the Daily Telegraph: “No
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FT rejects the domicle exodus
Monday, December 10th, 2007The FT’s editorial today rubbishes the claims of those who say that non-doms are queueing up to leave the UK. It says Tax advisers are
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You can't ask the tax avoiders to end poverty
Monday, December 10th, 2007The Guardian reports that: Gordon Brown plans to harness at least 20 of the world’s biggest multinational companies, including Google and Vodafone, to tackle a
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Stonehage taxation
Monday, December 10th, 2007A strange press release arrived in my in-box last night from one of the national papers (and not the usual suspects). The sender thought I
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There are lies, d***ed lies and some in the offshore financial services industry
Sunday, December 9th, 2007My blog entitled The Crown Protectorates – Open for Money Laundering was reposted on the Is This Jersey? web site. They often are. And, as
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No representation without tax
Friday, December 7th, 2007A Bill for a new Act of Parliament was tabled in the UK this week. It’s called the ‘Disqualification from Parliament (Taxation Status) Bill’ and
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Income shifting - the Treasury misses the point, again
Friday, December 7th, 2007The Treasury has published its proposals for tackling income shifting following HM Revenue & Customs’ loss in the House of Lords in the Arctic Systems
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