The US Treasury issued, on 8 February 2012, a notice relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA).
How Not To Be A Money Launderer, a straightforward guide to detecting and deterring fraud and money laundering in organisations, has been reissued in paperback.
The UK's HM Revenue and Customs is to begin a new approach to the recovery of tax evasion which it has begun to call tax fraud.
Taxation: UK Treasury forces businesses to use the internetIf you are a small business and don't have a computer or internet access, obviously, you can't read this. You can't fill in on-line forms and you can't use on-line banking. But you can still pay...
Taxation: UK mulls general anti-avoidance ruleHM Treasury says that an independent study on the general anti-avoidance rule recommends a "narrow focus."
Taxation: Is Obama's "Buffett Rule" a meal or a snack?It makes a good headline, and US President Barack Obama needs as many of those as he can get. A campaign of promise has turned into a litany of broken promises - and his strength has turned out t...
Taxation: UK to reduce top rate income taxHow much tax does a top rate UK taxpayer pay? Shockingly, depending on the method of calculation, he is paying more than 100% of earnings in tax of one kind or another. The UK's Chancellor, a Con...
Taxation: US IRS issues reminder regarding declaration of offshore holdingsUnder the heading "Reminder: Report Certain Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts to Treasury by June 30," the USA's Inland Revenue Service has issued a statement aimed at all US tax paye...
"The only certain things in life are death and taxes" - Benjamin Franklin
"The taxpayer is liable to pay the tax due - and no more" - Lord Denning
Governments have no money except that which they raise by taxation. There is a constant tug-of-war between governments trying to raise taxes and taxpayers trying to reduce what they pay. Yet populations resent tax - and don't understand it.
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