The 'tax amnesty' - progress to date
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007This report in the Sunday Times seems a good summary of progress to date on the so-called ‘tax amnesty’. I agree with the sentiment in
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Take one pack of self-interest, add a firm of accountants, stir and see what you get
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007This sort of thing, from the FT: Margaret Ewing, the former finance director of UK airports group BAA, has attacked institutional investors for voting down
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What can tax do?
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Tax can pay for universal healthcare. In the UK we have this. We don’t value it enough. In the USA, as Barack Obama has pointed
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How important is IT to accountants?
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007AccountingWEB has run a piece on what is called Web 2.0 for accountants. This is not a techy site so I’m not going into the
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No low tax for Northern Ireland
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Some welcome news from the FT: Plans by Northern Ireland’s new power-sharing executive to stimulate foreign investment by cutting corporation tax have been dashed. In
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Dirty money flows distort our economy and corrupt democracy
Friday, June 1st, 2007My colleague John Christensen had an article in the Guardian under the above title this week. I recommend it.
E & Y partners in the dock
Friday, June 1st, 2007Some may have noticed the blog has been a little quiet this week. Well, even we bloggers have to take holiday’s sometimes. The world has
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The IASB misses the point on small company accounting
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007I’ve been writing about the inappropriateness of accounting standards that have been established for smaller enterprises in the UK and elsewhere for more than a
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KPMG Switzerland - adding up the wrong numbers
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007I’ve just come across a report from KPMG Switzerland: Given the much-debated issue of taxation in Switzerland, KPMG conducted a survey of all cantonal tax
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