Taking Stock: You can prove anything with statistics
People In Practice

Taking Stock: You can prove anything with statistics

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: You can prove anything with statisti...

Sometimes TS doesn't believe what it reads Read More...

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Taking Stock: Breaking the ice with Icebreaker
Personal Tax

Taking Stock: Breaking the ice with Icebreaker

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Breaking the ice with Icebreaker

TS likes a drink, particularly if it relates to a tax avoidance scheme Read More...

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Taking Stock: Spotting a cloud bluffer
People Business

Taking Stock: Spotting a cloud bluffer

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Spotting a cloud bluffer

A cloud buffer sounds like a really nice, extraordinarily fluffy, thing. And it is...but not in a nice way, says Dr Peter Chadha Read More...

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Colin: Do the authorities have any Patience for tax avoidance?
Personal Tax

Colin: Do the authorities have any Patience for tax avoidance?

10y Taking Stock

Colin: Do the authorities have any Patience for ta...

Colin wonders if the OBE will be rebranded following news of Gary Barlow's controversial tax affairs Read More...

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Colin: Will new head of financial control at GCHQ be called M
People Business

Colin: Will new head of financial control at GCHQ be called M

10y Richard Crump , Writer

Colin: Will new head of financial control at GCHQ ...

Colin might decide against going for this job advertised Accountancy Age Read More...

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Taking Stock: You don't have to look like Gareth Pearce to work here..
Accounting Firms

Taking Stock: You don't have to look like Gareth Pearce to work here..

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: You don't have to look like Gareth P...

New Smith & Williamson co-chief David Cobb looks a lot like former exec chairman Gareth Pearce. And Taking Stock is scared Read More...

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Taking Stock: Earl to sell plot to pay off tax mountain
Personal Tax

Taking Stock: Earl to sell plot to pay off tax mountain

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Earl to sell plot to pay off tax mou...

TS hasn't come across many who use mountains to settle tax bills Read More...

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Colin: Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting...
Business Regulation

Colin: Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting...

10y Richard Crump , Writer

Colin: Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting...

Vince Cable goes hunting for opaque business structures Read More...

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Colin: The Gherkin's wilting
Company News

Colin: The Gherkin's wilting

10y Taking Stock

Colin: The Gherkin's wilting

Colin was surprised to hear the Gherkin is in trouble Read More...

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Colin: There's nothing like a well-thought-out plan
Company News

Colin: There's nothing like a well-thought-out plan

10y Taking Stock

Colin: There's nothing like a well-thought-out pla...

Colin wonders whether some SMEs are keeping it too simple Read More...

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Taking Stock: When tax is stranger than fiction
Personal Tax

Taking Stock: When tax is stranger than fiction

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: When tax is stranger than fiction

Sometimes you just can't make it up, TS finds Read More...

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Colin: Of LLPs and fish stocks
Accounting Firms

Colin: Of LLPs and fish stocks

10y Taking Stock

Colin: Of LLPs and fish stocks

Colin finds an interesting parallel to government's LLPs policy Read More...

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Taking Stock: Osborne becomes bantsellor of the Exchequer
Corporate Tax

Taking Stock: Osborne becomes bantsellor of the Exchequer

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Osborne becomes bantsellor of the Ex...

Who knew Gideon was one of the lads? Read More...

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Taking Stock: Picking up the pieces ahead of the Budget
Corporate Tax

Taking Stock: Picking up the pieces ahead of the Budget

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Picking up the pieces ahead of the B...

TS has been recipient of some novel Budget-related materials recently Read More...

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Colin: Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Personal Tax

Colin: Lifestyles of the rich and famous

10y Taking Stock

Colin: Lifestyles of the rich and famous

Colin speculates on the impact of HMRC's 'pay up first' tax avoidance policy on celebrities Read More...

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Taking Stock: Taxing times for Clapham Omnibus
Corporate Tax

Taking Stock: Taxing times for Clapham Omnibus

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Taxing times for Clapham Omnibus

Where has the man from the Clapham Omnibus got off? TS muses... Read More...

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Taking Stock: Fairytale stuff from Disney accountants
Accounting Firms

Taking Stock: Fairytale stuff from Disney accountants

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Fairytale stuff from Disney accounta...

Disney & Wood's website is kid's stuff, TS finds Read More...

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Colin: A world beyond reporting standards
Corporate Governance

Colin: A world beyond reporting standards

10y Taking Stock

Colin: A world beyond reporting standards

Colin wonders how accountants would feel without the issue of reporting standards Read More...

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Colin: By the seat of their pants
Business Recovery

Colin: By the seat of their pants

10y Taking Stock

Colin: By the seat of their pants

Colin distils the latest insolvency news Read More...

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Taking Stock: Taxing me, taxing you
Personal Tax

Taking Stock: Taxing me, taxing you

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Taxing me, taxing you

ABBA wearing crazy outfits for tax reasons? Taking Stock's interest was piqued Read More...

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Taking Stock: Partridge-esque Valentine’s message from taxman
Personal Tax

Taking Stock: Partridge-esque Valentine’s message from taxman

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Partridge-esque Valentine’s message ...

HMRC throws its hat in the ring for the most romantic Valentine's Day message yet Read More...

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Colin: French speechless at Google tax shocker
Corporate Tax

Colin: French speechless at Google tax shocker

10y Taking Stock

Colin: French speechless at Google tax shocker

Colin thought the people of Paris could no longer be surprised... Read More...

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Taking Stock: 'Groundhog Day' nightmare of audit reports
Audit

Taking Stock: 'Groundhog Day' nightmare of audit reports

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: 'Groundhog Day' nightmare of audit r...

There need to be fewer reports about audit, report about audit finds Read More...

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Taking Stock: Sobell Rhodes rains supreme
People In Practice

Taking Stock: Sobell Rhodes rains supreme

10y Taking Stock

Taking Stock: Sobell Rhodes rains supreme

The inclement weather isn't a problem for Sobell Rhodes' numbercrunchers - it's having the strength to lift their brollies Read More...

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Colin: Short-sighted view could be fatal
Corporate Tax

Colin: Short-sighted view could be fatal

10y Taking Stock

Colin: Short-sighted view could be fatal

Colin wades into the tax avoidance debate Read More...

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Colin: FRC Wins the Hoff
People Business

Colin: FRC Wins the Hoff

10y Taking Stock

Colin: FRC Wins the Hoff

Colin's vision of events often bears little relation to reality Read More...

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Colin: There's no app for Vodafone audit
Audit

Colin: There's no app for Vodafone audit

10y Taking Stock

Colin: There's no app for Vodafone audit

Colin ponders how the Vodafone audit tender process might go down Read More...

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