Hairy times for Guilfoyle
Administrators expect a certain amount of stick when they're doing administrations or restructuring jobs...
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Tinker, tailor, accountant, spy
It seems CIA agents have been secretly moonlighting with American fund managers to catch out fraudsters.
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Deloitte vs E&Y; construction face-off
It's trowels at the ready for press release juxtaposition fun again here at TS Towers.
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KPMG needs I.T. to phone home
TS hears some of the Big Four firm's IT and expenses queries are going to M3 Consulting, a property development company based in the Square Mile...
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PwC's Sexton treads the boards
TS might need a few mental-health days to recover from the sight of Richard Sexton shaking his groove thang in a one-night-only performance at PwC's annual panto extravaganza.
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HMRC call centre brainbox challenges Mannion
There are some tales you hear which produce belly laughs of the most raucous order and the one told by tax bod Richard Mannion is right up there.
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Guilfoyle plucks Eagles' star player
Blimey. We all thought that footy insolvency practitioner extraordinaire Brendan Guilfoyle might be a dab hand as club manager, but we never thought he'd go for it as Crystal Palace administrator.
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LDA rails at TfL
TS strolled along to the latest audit committee meeting of the London Development Agency to hear their thoughts on the Audit Commission's qualification of the 'use of resources' part of its annual accounts, and its late filings.
The committee members weren't particularly happy bunnies, however member and Barnet Council leader Mike Freer raised a giggle or two.
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Hartnett remembers the good old days
TS was summoned to Whitehall last week for a no-holds-barred meeting with our favourite tax gamekeeper Dave Hartnett.
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Tax defenders put boot into Maradona
The Hand of God must be shaking all the way to the bank now the South American authorities have demanded he pay back tax from his stint at Napoli in Italy's Serie A football league.
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