Michael Noonan recently announced the Jobs Initiative. The scheme is an attempt to boost economic growth and incentivise job creation. The minister announced several measures they hope will thrust the economy forward. The Finance Bill (No.2) 2011 was published today setting out the legislative provisions...

We don’t normally do 2 blogs on one day but this is just a quickie to say that BBC’s Watchdog will be looking at HMRC’s recent debt collection practices. For those of you that may have missed it there’s been a good bit in the media about...

As a restaurateur, my job is to control the chaos and the drama. There’s always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. Rocco DiSpirito So we’ve had doctors, dentists and plumbers all under HMRC’s microscope. We’ve also have a few amnesties for offshore evaders...

The sun is shining, the days are long and the new government is making big efforts to make improvements. Just 9 weeks since the change of government, Michael Noonan announced the jobs initiative. They certainly have (as they said they would) “hit the ground running”.  The purpose of the jobs initiative...

  All generalizations are false, including this one – Mark Twain False self-employment is back in the news courtesy of the Mirror’s “Gizza Proper Job” campaign. The campaign was launched back in 2010 as an attempt to highlight what the Mirror termed the ”exploitation of workers”. The...