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How Not To Be A Money Launderer : Cover

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.


 
Taxation: UK Treasury forces businesses to use the internet

If 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 rule

HM 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 tax

How 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 holdings

Under 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...

Taxation: UK arrests in GBP20m tobacco fraud

HM Revenue and Customs have arrested five people accused of orchestrating a tobacco fraud that is estimated to have resulted in GBP20 million in unpaid excise duties.

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Taxation

"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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