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Fiscal fidelity
The motto of the family of The Duke of Westminster, arguably one of the richest men in the world, is virtus non stemma - virtue, not ancestry. The...
Accountancy SA, 05/01/09 by Webb, Penelope; Coates, Willi · More from publication -
noble lie, The
It was Plato, writing in the fourth century BC, who advanced the concept of the 'noble lie'. It was part of a proposition that lying is not merely...
Accountancy SA, 04/01/09 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
Why do taxes increase?
If a competition were held to find the most common rhetorical question, there is little doubt that this one would win -why do taxes increase? How...
Accountancy SA, 03/01/09 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF AN UNREASONABLE MAN, THE
It was the gifted Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw who said that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts...
Accountancy SA, 02/01/09 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
CURSE OF MACBETH, THE
Readers may be forgiven for wondering whether they have stumbled into a high school English class discussing dreaded Shakespeare, but there is a...
Accountancy SA, 12/01/08 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
DIE SWAKKE BTW
Readers will, I hope, forgive the weak pun about VAT or BTW. Members of the profession that relax by playing golf or tennis or succumb to a beer or...
Accountancy SA, 11/01/08 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
STRIP CLUBS, stealth & hot air
Take it on trust. All will be revealed - in a taxation sense I hasten to add. In our fiscal world we are familiar with dividend stripping, but what...
Accountancy SA, 10/01/08 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
Blessed Beyond All Bliss
O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas Oh, blessed beyond all bliss, the farmers - did they but know their happiness. This was...
Accountancy SA, 09/01/08 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
Tea with a crocodile
We all know that tax evasion is criminal and that tax avoidance, if it is not a sham, is lawful. But what of tax avoision? This is an expression...
Accountancy SA, 08/01/08 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication -
A Comedy of Errors
Readers may be forgiven if they believe that the title of this article refers to Eskom. It does not, although Eskom's proposed savage increases in...
Accountancy SA, 07/01/08 by Webb, Penelope · More from publication
