Tax and society
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006It’s OK to quote Polly Toynbee now. David Cameron does. I’m on side, apparently. So take this from her column in the Guardian today: Yesterday,
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It is high time that the CBI raised its game.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006As anyone who has read the UK press in the last couple of days knows, they’ve been issuing their usual bleat in advance of their
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Accountants DO encourage tax abuse
Monday, November 27th, 2006Stuart Jones posted a comment on my piece called ‘Do small businesses evade tax?’. He said: I’m sorry Richard but there are limits: ” ‚Ķ‚Ķthe
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Do small businesses evade tax?
Monday, November 27th, 2006Dennis Howlett has written some very confused articles on tax evasion over the last few days: so confused that I am not sure where Dennis
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Why was General Reinsurance fined?
Monday, November 27th, 2006There has been much comment on the size of the fines given by the Financial Services Authority to Warren Buffet’s company General Reinsurance. Most only
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A genuine tax simplification for micro-businesses
Monday, November 27th, 2006The cash accounting debate appears to have developed a life of its own. I admit I was surprised when Mike Truman of Taxation magazine joined
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The ECJ rules in favour of tax compliance
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Friday’s news that the European Court of Justice has ruled that alcohol and cigarettes bought from other EU countries can only be exempt from domestic
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There is another Jersey
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006No, we’re not talking New Jersey here. We’re talking Jersey, Channel Islands. That place of which its First Minister, Frank Walker is prone to say
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PWC - your tax strategy is a matter of choice
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006PWC were kind enough to send me (and no doubt thousands of others) a mail yesterday on tax strategy. Since it was clearly marketing blurb
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