Senator Carl Levin - in action again
Monday, February 19th, 2007The following press release deserves publicity, so I’m going to give it some because this Bill deserves to become law: Levin, Coleman, Obama Introduce Stop
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KPMG - so very confused
Friday, February 16th, 2007You’d have thought KPMG could present an argument. That’s not true. There’s whole rafts of their paper on tax and corporate governance that are argument
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KPMG - arguing for a general anti-avoidance provision
Thursday, February 15th, 2007KPMG’s new report isn’t all bad (form my point of view). Take this for example on general anti-avoidance provisions, of which I am firmly in
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KPMG - missing the mark by miles
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007KPMG have published a new paper called ‘Developing the Concept of tax Governance’. Published yesterday, I think, I’ve now read all 31 pages of it.
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A legal challenge to VAT abuse - getting closer
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007It’s not my usual policy to reproduce press releases, but on occasion it seems appropriate. The following was issued by the Forum for Private Business
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Cut tax relief
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007There is of course an answer to the problem of private equity. The UK would not be fleeced by this form of asset stripping if
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Private equity - a threat to the well-being of capitalism
Monday, February 12th, 2007Will Hutton was also writing in the Observer this weekend. I’m not a committed fan of Hutton’s. But he’s right about private equity: this is
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Corporate management - in the Soviet tradition
Monday, February 12th, 2007I am not a great fan of Sunday newspapers, by and large (and that’s despite having written for one for a while). The reason is
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Subsidies are negative taxation
Friday, February 9th, 2007Companies the world over seem to call for two things. The first is a simplified tax code. The second are lower tax rates. Nowhere though
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