Deloittes in Kenya - bang on the nail of tax justice
Thursday, July 5th, 2007The Big 4 accountants do know the difference between tax avoidance and tax planning. Take this by Kairo Thuo in the Kenyan Standard. Kairo is
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Digby Jones - heading for an early rap on the knuckles
Thursday, July 5th, 2007Accountancy Age reports that: New trade and investment minister Sir Digby Jones has called for a more competitive corporation tax rate. Just a few days
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Darling, it's market failure that's the problem
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007I’ve known Alastair Darling’s style on Treasury issues for a long time – since before Labour came to power in 1997. So I’m not surprised
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Black quilty
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007Good. Any other result would have been a disaster for corporate governance. Now, were were the auditors in all this? They were, inevitably, KPMG.
Jersey's Teather
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007I have been pondering why Jersey has opted for the route of legitimising what is generally seen as tax evasion within its territory, so providing
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Tax evasion taskforce to probe tax haven UK
Sunday, July 1st, 2007There’s excellent news in the Observer today: Plans have been drawn up for an international taskforce to crack down on tax haven abuses orchestrated in
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I agree with Mike Devereux
Friday, June 29th, 2007I’m always willing to give credit where it is due. The Oxford tax conference has moved to international tax issues today, and the first session
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Anti-avoidance at Oxford
Friday, June 29th, 2007The theme of the first day here at Oxford was tax avoidance. Although an international conference the focus was on the UK. The new relationship
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Andrew Dilnot thinks small businesses are bad businesses
Friday, June 29th, 2007Andrew Dilnot was director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies for many years. Now he’s Principal of St Hugh’s College Oxford and the university’s pro-Vice
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