Unless you’re thoroughly bored of the non-dom row by now (and I’m getting increasingly convinced that reasers of this blog would rather I ...
View articleThe fallout from George Osborne’s first PBR continues. Oh, sorry, I meant Alistair Darling’s PBR (How could I have made that mistake?)&hel...
View articleOK. This just gets more and more bizarre. Brown said in his press conference today that many of the non-doms are nurses and won’t pay the £25,00...
View articleI really am struggling to believe the unbelievable delusions the Brownites are suffering under as a result of the Tory tax proposals. Did anyone see t...
View articleSo you write about non-doms for years and nobody, apparently, listens. And then suddenly, after a week in politics that has witnessed the most sensati...
View articleI feel I should say something by way of clarification to the discussions about non-dom statistics that are being bandied about. We found we were famou...
View articleThe Tories have some ideas out on tax today, and lo and behold, there’s a pledge to tax non-doms! Heaven be praised! They will have to pay £25,0...
View articleI think that’s the phrase you’re supposed to use, isn’t it? Anyway, Alistair Darling yesterday called for greater openness in intern...
View articleI’ve not just been thinking about the credit crunch this week. One of the big corporate tax avoidance schemes, cited by Dave Hartnett as an exam...
View articleThe story in The Times this morning about the Lib Dems is further proof of just how knee-deep in non-dom money the political parties are. I suppose in...
View articleVery off-topic, but the sub-prime crisis is the biggest accounting story around, so I’m not spending much time thinking about tax right now. Leh...
View articleI see that Dave Hartnett and Paul Gray have both done podcasts, answering questions put by ‘agents’ (tax advisers to you and me). Most not...
View articlePrem Sikka has posted on his blog on the Guardian website today, with a trenchant critique of the segmental accounting changes being brought in by the...
View articleClosely fought, some excellent touches, and wonderful entertainment. Wasn’t the football good yesterday? Oh, no, I meant to say the Hecklers deb...
View articleWhat will you be doing at 8pm tomorrow evening (Wednesday)? Probably watching the football, I’d have thought. But if you can’t be bothered...
View articleThe tax-man has put out a very stern and unforgiving briefing on taxis home, and when they qualify for tax exemptions. By the standards of tax briefin...
View articleThere’s an interesting piece in Taxation this week about the Drummond case, recently before the Special Commissioners. For those who don’t...
View articleAccountancy Age gets an interview with Alistair Darling! Not quite the first (it will be a while before the chancellor comes to us before the Financia...
View articleI’m going to be bold, and say where I think the argument on private equity taxation is going to end up. Read More...
View articleI see that director general of HM Revenue & Customs Dave Hartnett is calling for questions that he will answer on the next series of podcasts that...
View articleThe Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIoT), the body that keeps all tax advisers honest (ish), held a media reception last night at the House of Commo...
View articleWhoever said Wikipedia was no use? A contact has directed me to a full list of all the Paymaster Generals there have ever been!… Read More...
View articleRobert Peston at the BBC has an interesting story about Saga and the AA. They paid no corporation tax while owned by private equity, despite making hu...
View articleJane Kennedy is, we are told, set to take on HM Revenue & Customs from Dawn Primarolo under the new regime under Alistair Darling. Read More...
View articleKitty Ussher is the new economic secretary to the Treasury, the post previously occupied by Ed Balls. Read More...
View articleI mean that headline. The government has announced its Treasury team, and in amongst them is Angela Eagle. Read More...
View articleThe unions are rampant, baying for private equity blood. No image sums it up better than Paul Moloney saying in The Observer that ‘we will chase...
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