Happy 92nd Birthday June
Link from Tara Street Have Our Book Critics Gone Soft? (What Happens When “Every” Book Is Worth Reading?)
Multinational tax avoidance cost Australia $6bn in 2014, Oxfam report claims
BHS: Sir Philip Green claims he moved to Monaco for health reasons
Networking overseas too, that is important for a crime that has no borders via JB
The following is a guest blog by my friend Dr. Atul K. Shah of Suffolk Business School:
Margaret River, Western Australia courtesy of Katrina
MARGARET RIVER
Busselton was lovely...
Busselton was lovely...
Link from Tara Street Have Our Book Critics Gone Soft? (What Happens When “Every” Book Is Worth Reading?)
“Nearly all of the more than 100 books graded by Book Marks seem to be worth reading, which renders it somewhat useless as a recommendation resource, which wasn’t lost on many of its early readers. But that’s not how Lit Hub editor-in-chief Jonny Diamond pitches the site anyway.” The New Republic
Multinational tax avoidance cost Australia $6bn in 2014, Oxfam report claims
BHS: Sir Philip Green claims he moved to Monaco for health reasons
Networking overseas too, that is important for a crime that has no borders via JB
The following is a guest blog by my friend Dr. Atul K. Shah of Suffolk Business School:
Over the weekend, I came across a tweet from Edward Snowden that caught my eye. He mentioned the Scottish governments use of the UK meta data. What was surprising to me is that the data was shared not only with the policing authorities, but also, with the tax authorities.
In this article, there is a claim that “[t]he confirmation that UK state spy agency GCHQ ran a specific programmed, called “MILKWHITE”, to share data with devolved policing and tax authorities is the first Snowden leak to directly implicate Scottish authorities in the controversial policy of ‘bulk data’ collection.” The entire article is devoted to the problematic practices of meta data collection and sharing. Further, it only mentions the tax authorities once. But what is especially intriguing to me is that the taxing authorities are part of data analysis.
I would have suspected that the taxing authorities would want to use data to verify taxpayer movement. For example, if you are avoiding US taxes because you claim a non resident status (I know it is a rolling calculation), wouldn’t it be nice for US to use your cell phone records to catch you spending 220 days a year in the US. But I never thought they the IRS, let alone other countries, had either the desire or funds to do data harvesting. The idea that the Scottish taxing authorities are part of the data distribution protocol now gives me pause. I wonder if taxpayers now need to be worried about taxing authorities starting to use meta data?
Lew Taishoff, THE FRAUDSTER’S TOOLBOX. A case where preparer fraud left the client return open to examination beyond the normal statute of limitations.
How Canada got into bed with tax havens
Nordea Reported to Police for Bank's Money Laundering Breaches Lew Taishoff, THE FRAUDSTER’S TOOLBOX. A case where preparer fraud left the client return open to examination beyond the normal statute of limitations.
How Canada got into bed with tax havens
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