This week, Colin has a bee in his bonnet over the amount of tax he’ll pay over his lifetime. Click on the cartoon strip above to see a full size...
View articleBack in the seventies, TS could often be found sporting its Che Guevara T-shirt and shouting anti-capitalist slogans. Now, we care more about how the ...
View articleEver a fan of modern technology (we’ve just purchased a Betamax video recorder) and a keen follower of football, TS was intrigued to hear that Premier...
View articleTS noticed there was no sign of David Varney, chairman of HMRC, at last week’s Hardman Memorial Lecture at the ICAEW. In fact, there is ...
View articleLast week, KPMG’s Loughlin Hickey made a John Lennon-style plea for peace, love and understanding in the tax world. He called for the media, in partic...
View articleSenior figures in the tax world sighed when they heard that the pre-Budget report was to be delivered on the 5 December. The Chartered Institute of Ta...
View articleColin has a devious plan in hand, but maybe it won’t be as tough as he thinks, or maybe he’s just too late. Click on the image above to re...
View articleYou know you are getting old when a week goes by and you are still recovering from the aftermath of the Accountancy Age Awards. It was...
View articleTS never thought accountancy would be the kind of profession to attract groupies, but was proven wrong at last week’s Accountancy Age Awards. Neil Woo...
View articleAwards ceremonies are all to often the place to witness emotional outbursts, even our own event can sometimes match the Oscars for touching moments. B...
View articleYou may have realised that relationships between some of the institutes aren’t exactly healthy at the moment. The fallout from the failed merger attem...
View articleBeing asked to participate on the Accountancy Age Awards judging panel ensures you are recognised as one of the top names in the profession. It doesn’...
View articleTS was mightily impressed with Steve Gazzard, young UK finance director of big business software company SAP. Read More...
View articleGetting drunk at award ceremonies can sometimes be a bit of a disaster, but occasionally it can work the other way, as Colin discovers. Click on the i...
View articleAs a fashionable London media type, TS was propping up a bar in Clapham one evening last week when our conversation (which ranged from the next Conser...
View articleConfession time. TS, in its early days, longed to star in school drama Grange Hill. Thoughts of that glorious theme tune, the sadly late Mr Bronson sh...
View articleThe annual VATRat award is Baker Tilly’s chance to honour someone who has made a significant contribution to the development of VAT. So practitioners ...
View articleTS is reluctant to point out the mistakes of other journals, but we just have to share the one made by The Independent, which featured Grant Thornton ...
View articleSince we launched our Compact Pussycat competition, TS has been inundated with suggestions for accountancy-related band names. Well, perhaps that’s a ...
View articleTS just loves a party, and is already feeling very excited about tonight’s Accountancy Age Awards – the most glamorous in the industry, of cours...
View articleWe are, if Ernst & Young is to be believed, to expect changes to the tax regime for North Sea Oil companies in the pre-budget report. Read More...
View articleFollowing some of the nasty things that the various accounting institutes have been saying to each other, TS thought that CCAB’s website, which ...
View articleColin keeps out the impending winter chill with a trip to a Guy Fawkes Night bonfire. Find out what happens by clicking on the image above… Rea...
View articleAs firm fans of smutty humour and questionable remarks, TS is not alone in the financial world. Attending the PwC Meet the Experts… Read More...
View articleKPMG partners are in a generous mood these days. Keener readers will recall how UK chairman Mike Rake sent his E&Y counterpart Nick Land a bottle ...
View articleTS has a sneaking admiration for the way Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger almost always manages to keep his cool (present Mourinho argument excepted), ev...
View articleIt seems that nasty Gordon Brown is targeting the humble British caff’s bacon and sausage sandwiches, in his inexorable drive to pay off government de...
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