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My Diigo Bookmarks 07/31/2008

The construction industry. By Simon Sweetman – 24 Jul 2008
This UK perspective on the construction industry makes interesting reading when taken alongside the US $40 billion payroll tax hole
tags: tax avoidance

Businesses deliberately cheating U.S. out of $40 billion in payroll taxes – Financial Week
What surprises me is that the figure isn’t higher.
tags: IRS, payroll, fraud

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Proctologist or dental surgeon?

An interesting Twitter conversation broke out earlier today when the effervescent open source hand waver aka James Governor drew a comparison between his firm Redmonk and Gartner. I argued the comparison is suprious because they do different things – better to think about proctologists and dental surgeons. He replied with chiropracter and hospital GP.
I prefer [...]

Where to next for HMRC’s IT plans?

John Stokdyk’s excellent analysis of HMRC’s IT woes should be required reading for anyone attempting to either work with HMRC’s electronic ‘facilities’ or those wondering how and why large scale IT projects are so prone to failure. I was aprticualrly drawn to one of John’s last conclusions:
But the auditor has made a fundamental mistake in [...]

My Diigo Bookmarks

HMRC Is Shite: IT Is Not Our Business – PAYE Cock Up
Ken taking the pish – in his own inimitable style
tags: hmrc

Seth’s Blog: Are you in the tribe?
I’m wondering whether Seth has jumped the shark with this stunt
tags: godin

Businesses deliberately cheating U.S. out of $40 billion in payroll taxes – Financial Week
What surprises me is [...]