£2.9bn, the cumulative worth of the 92 league clubs in England and Wales for 2010/11, up 9% on the previous season. Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance showed that despite…
In the Volokh conspiracy blog, the question about marriage being a contract is asked. He responded "I thought I’d respond to this on-blog because it illustrates a considerably broader point:…
Leverage is the mantra of the times in philanthropy, and rightly so. People want to know that the charities they support are using donations as effectively as possible. Donors and…
It is well known in the international tax forums that US citizens tax planning is an impossible mission. As reported in the LA Times: Facebook's Eduardo Saverin gives up citizenship:…
10/05/2012 - The OECD’s Task Force on Tax and Development, meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, has launched the concept of Tax Inspectors Without Borders/ Inspecteurs des impôts sans frontières – a…
As reported by FC Business, Football League clubs took a huge step to self sufficiency when they agreed to the implementation of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations last week. Based…
The average tax burden on earnings in OECD countries continues to rise Published in OECD Tax News - 25/04/2012 25/04/012 - The average tax and social security burden on employment…
The latest edition of Tax Justice Focus explores how the Occupy Movement has changed public attitudes, not least to tax justice. In Autumn 2010 demonstrators from UK Uncut started to…
As part of a delegation of the Bar Council, I just returned from Qatar and was very pleased with the visit. We saw an energetic and enthusiastic country with a…
05/04/2012 - The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes has just completed peer reviews of another 11 jurisdictions. Reports on Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Guatemala, Malta, Mexico, Saint Vincent and…