Earlier this year, I was browsing my local Waterstones, when I came across a copy of ‘Blair Inc.’ on the shelf. I have to admit to an enduring curiosity in our former Prime Minister, and so picked up the book and parked myself in the attached Costa to start reading. To those of you that […]
International taxation used to be the purview of a number of niche tax specialists, rarely catching the interest of national government’s or gaining significant public coverage. All of this changed in April 2016 with the advent of the Panama Papers – an enormous leak of documents from the firm Mossack Fonseca, detailing the intimate financial
With the most recent Conservative Outrage being the upending and reduction of working and child tax credits, an often heard argument is that if the government were serious balancing the books and creating an equal society, that they would go after tax evaders, rather than the defenceless working poor. One of the most interesting facets
Today, it was announced that the Greek government and the institutions of the EU had finally come to terms over a third bailout for the heavily indebted country. As an outsider with only limited information on the negotiations available, I can only speculate at the exact contents of the negotiations, but it seems clear that
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As is so often the case, in the last few weeks, I found found myself somewhat oversubscribed in terms of meetings, phone calls and evening engagements. As such, this post is a little later than anticipated, but I was inspired to finish it yesterday after attending District Officer Training as part of my role as
One of the most well developed dichotomies of the modern world is the division between successful business and social responsibility. For me the most important debate during the 2015 UK Elections was about big businesses, and the wealthy members of our society paying their ‘fair share’. As ’ The Ethical Entrepreneur’, I believe that the success
