Not really about tax, but I thought I’d post this column here, so that if people feel that way inclined, they might post more reasons why accoun...
View articleThe talk about a clampdown on private equity tax rules is, it seems to me, raising hopes on the part of the unions that are likely to be disappointed....
View articleThere’s a comment on a post by Dennis Howlett about the tax ‘amnesty’ that’s interesting, from Simon Sweetman. Read More...
View articleA while ago I wrote about moves by the government to suggest that the tax profession saw carousel fraud as some kind of tax planning, rather than the ...
View articleThere has been some interesting comment in The Times about the suggestion, emanating from ACCA, that buy-to-let landlords are to be hit for tax bills....
View articleWho would have thought that you could glamorise the tax-man? Two identical twins have, in a book about a Customs investigator called DJ Smith investig...
View articleI bring news of the 34th most important man in Gloucestershire, Mike Warburton. I attended a rival magazine’s awards do last night (oh, go on, i...
View articleI know tax advisers like to avoid all sex scandal stories, so few of you will have noticed the Lord Browne episodes of the last week or so. You’...
View articleWhat is significant about the latest Special Commissioners’ judgment on inheritance tax? Well, some people are saying that it devalues the wife&...
View articleSome days you think that the things you write have an impact. Some days you wonder. I wrote in June of last year that the government was considering d...
View articleThe tax credits row engulfing Gordon Brown is quite absorbing from a tax perspective, and quite frustrating at the same time. Read More...
View articleA week after the Budget, I think it’s time for some cynicism. Read More...
View articleCourtesy of Accountancy Age’s new stablemate Legal Week comes this story: that European Court of Justice cases are now taking less time than the...
View articleFurther to my post about interest relief being on the government’s agenda, the noises coming from the Treasury appear to suggest something of a ...
View articleEd Balls said in a speech the other day that the government was not intending to clamp down on interest relief in the UK. Speaking about private equit...
View articleReading about the road pricing petition filed on the Number 10 website, I wondered whether there would be any interesting petitions on tax. Surely the...
View articleI find the Institute of Directors report into CGT and IHT curious. The main question I have is not related to its conclusions, which are the usual men...
View articleMuch has been written about Sir Mike Rake’s elevation to BT, and much will no doubt still be written. I think some of it is a bit unfair. Read M...
View articleThe latest judgment from the Court of Appeal on Marks & Spencer is, I think, more significant than some are suggesting. Jonathan Bridges of KPMG s...
View articleI interviewed Lloyds TSB group FD Helen Weir this week (sorry for the tardy link). She had some interesting comments to make about tax, especially wit...
View articleAfter scooping the Jeremy Newman website the other day, here’s another site you might not have seen, courtesy of the excellent web searching ski...
View articleRight, back to tax. Mentioning Jeremy Newman’s blog just now made me remember something I’d been meaning to blog about: the lack of blogs ...
View articleI’ve been ‘tagged’ by Dennis Howlett. Well, actually, it happened before Christmas, but holidays and ceaseless scandals to write abo...
View articleSelf-referential and slightly off topic this may be, but it’s a question worth asking. Are Big Four staff at all cheesed off that their pay has ...
View articleJust to show what a thrusting, modern and high-tech department HM Revenue & Customs is (stick with me), it might be worth noting that it has ditch...
View articleA quick merry Christmas to all readers of this blog and Accountancy Age in general. To celebrate the festive season, we’ve got a special interac...
View articleThe blogosphere has enthusiastically embraced the funny distinction the Treasury made last week about controlled foreign companies. Embraced in that i...
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