It's probably reasonable to say that governments around the world have an uncomfortable relationship with sinners. By which I mean those who prefer a chocolate cake for desert, rather than an apple, or who end the working... Read Full Article »
Survey after survey shows that business taxpayers all over the world are experiencing rising levels of uncertainty with regards to their future tax obligations. Yet policy makers seem either blind to the problem or wilfully ignore it... Read Full Article »
Bashing big business is de rigueur these days an appropriate use of a French phrase considering the recent early morning raid by (reportedly) around 100 investigators and five magistrates on Googles offices in Paris... Read Full Article »
I caught up with an old American friend of mine during a shopping trip to New York recently. She has relatives in England and the last time we met she excitedly told me about her plans to buy a little bolt-hole in the Cotswolds for her... Read Full Article »
Anyone noticed how popular free zones are becoming? Rarely a week seems to go by without a report about one country or another preparing to launch new free zones. Since the turn of the year we have seen Costa Rica explore the... Read Full Article »
Credit to the tiny Caribbean territory of Antigua and Barbuda, which is doggedly continuing to stick to its guns in a trade dispute with the mighty United States; if ever there was a David versus Goliath contest between nations... Read Full Article »
A bit of a theme this week: how the powerful like to bully the small and the weak. And we start with Spain, which, according to one senior figure in the Spanish Government, is deprived of EUR1bn every year in tax revenue as a result of Gibraltar's... Read Full Article »
A bit of an individual theme to this week's blog, and we start in the United Kingdom where Prime Minister David Cameron would "love" to give financially hard-pressed Middle England (in the income sense) a tax cut by raising... Read Full Article »
One swallow doesn't make a summer, but two are a bit more promising, and that's what we are seeing in the EU/China tradasphere, with harmony breaking out on the oenophile and polysilicon fronts. In a parallel WTO case... Read Full Article »
By George! The UK's Chancellor (Finance Minister) seems to have brought off the impossible by announcing a budget which everyone agrees with. Of course the Opposition (its duty is to oppose, as they always say) sent up some... Read Full Article »
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