tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post6912449200653275696..comments2023-09-20T13:32:30.933+01:00Comments on Scottish Law Reporter: ‘A bigger racket than legal aid’ as MSP asked to call for removal of contract from AIB Accountants who seized disability benefits, wrong house in sequestration scandalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-55939602658395178782012-11-28T15:06:08.681+00:002012-11-28T15:06:08.681+00:00£5200 to Perth law firm Kippen Campbell for coveri...£5200 to Perth law firm Kippen Campbell for covering up occupational injury. <br /><br />RSA insure Kippen Campbell.<br /><br />RSA insure Reg Vardy Motors, most employers Mr Gordon's employers.<br /><br />RSA insure Law Society of Scotland.<br /><br />RSA insure sheriffs and Judges too.<br /><br />Doctors including your to GP insure by RSA. All Evil scum.<br /><br />Remember these professions pay premiums to the insurance company you will be claiming against. They are evil life destroyers. Don't try to sue your employer. You will lose, guaranteed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-87896478600788612742012-11-19T13:27:08.268+00:002012-11-19T13:27:08.268+00:00Am I the only one thats missing the obvious here, ...Am I the only one thats missing the obvious here, just what the hell is this Park character doing, buff all??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-74501157487819391342012-11-19T11:45:08.671+00:002012-11-19T11:45:08.671+00:00A firm of Glasgow accountants doing well from the ...A firm of Glasgow accountants doing well from the public purse under Scottish Labour and the SNP..<br /><br />I think we all know where this is going..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-87900954786682618422012-11-19T03:21:15.630+00:002012-11-19T03:21:15.630+00:00Let's be honest here, this is not bigger than ...Let's be honest here, this is not bigger than the Scottish legal aid fraud but it does point to the elephant in the room....that is that why are the AIB out-sourcing this work to accountant firms in the first place?<br /><br />Could it be that the AIB do not have any chartered accountants as staff?<br /><br />Also, could it be that the AIB have no systems and procedures in place to effectively control and manage these out-sourced accountants because of a lack of knowledge and skill?<br /><br />Is this work being contracted out as an attempt to avoid corporate responsibility, giving the AIB an excuse to apportion blame to the out-sourced firm when their corrupt practices are exposed, thereby providing an artificial screen to protect the AIB from being pursued or criticised?<br /><br />This is a wickedly devised cabal?<br /><br />The Law Society of Scotland must be heavily involved here as part of their increasingly insidious creeping role in corporate interference?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-69946390962668345762012-11-18T16:40:12.679+00:002012-11-18T16:40:12.679+00:00November 17, 2012
good point about kpmg so Mr Swi...November 17, 2012<br /><br />good point about kpmg so Mr Swinney why is the SNP supposedly Mr Squeaky clean Scottish Government handing out public money to a firm who admit they are criminals in the USA??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-81326841320347536882012-11-18T12:08:51.385+00:002012-11-18T12:08:51.385+00:00Freezing a disabled person's access to their b...Freezing a disabled person's access to their benefits is not acceptable treatment anywhere so I am copying links to this story round disability forums in the hopes people will join together against these accountants and their allies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-31848497755706445972012-11-17T18:59:38.612+00:002012-11-17T18:59:38.612+00:00Should companies like KPMG get any public money fr...Should companies like KPMG get any public money from taxpayers or the Scottish Government or be involved in any kind of personal bankruptcies after being accused of systematic fraud by US regulators ?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG_tax_shelter_fraud<br /><br />The KPMG tax shelter fraud scandal involves allegedly illegal U.S. tax shelters by KPMG that were exposed beginning in 2003. In early 2005, the United States member firm of KPMG International, KPMG LLP, was accused by the United States Department of Justice of fraud in marketing abusive tax shelters.<br /><br />Deferred prosecution agreement (after they admitted criminal wrongdoing)<br /><br />Under a deferred prosecution agreement, KPMG LLP admitted criminal wrongdoing in creating fraudulent tax shelters to help wealthy clients dodge $2.5 billion in taxes and agreed to pay $456 million in penalties. KPMG LLP will not face criminal prosecution as long as it complies with the terms of its agreement with the government. On January 3, 2007, the criminal conspiracy charges against KPMG were dropped.[1] However, Federal Attorney Michael J. Garcia stated that the charges could be reinstated if KPMG does not continue to submit to continued monitorship through September 2008.[2]<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3475284/ns/business-corporate_scandals/t/senate-probes-kpmg-tax-shelters<br /><br />Senate probes KPMG tax shelters<br /><br />Senate investigators review accounting firm’s tax shelters<br />By Mary Dalrymple<br /><br /> WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 — One of the largest accounting firms promoted dubious charitable deductions and complicated transactions to generate phony paper losses for clients, say Senate investigators who spent a year unwinding four tax products that KPMG sold to more than 350 individuals in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The firm says it no longer offers the tax strategies.<br /><br />The four shelters once sold by KPMG will be scrutinized this week during two days of hearings of the Senate Governmental Affairs investigations subcommittee.<br /><br />Tuesday’s testimony is to give an inside look at tax-shelter development and marketing. Thursday’s aims to reveal roles played by other financial institutions that support and enable tax sheltering.<br /><br />Subcommittee aides, who handled the project with the help of anonymous whistle-blowers inside KPMG, said the transactions had virtually no business purpose other than to reduce taxes for individuals who used them.<br /><br />The Internal Revenue Service ruled in 2000 that the basis for three of the four transactions make them potentially abusive shelters. The fourth, subcommittee aides said, is under investigation by the IRS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-40874535972633413552012-11-17T14:18:51.168+00:002012-11-17T14:18:51.168+00:00I hear ICAS (Institute of Chartered Accountants of...I hear ICAS (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland) like to shake palms on behalf of all the firms you mentioned.This may explain how easy it is for them to scoop up all those millions from the taxpayer unnoticed.<br /><br />Mr Swinney must be a keen ally of ICAS he likes to speak there and make ridiculous claims about Scotland taking on the state banking debt http://www.telegraph.co.uk/financialservices/9561480/Scotland-could-take-on-state-bank-debts.html <br /><br /> Mr Swinney, who is campaigning ahead of a 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, insisted that Scotland could cope with taking control of Scottish assets and liabilities, including RBS and Lloyds.<br /><br />Speaking at the Institute of Chartered Accountants conference the SNP minister said that had Scotland been independent at the time of the £62bn bailouts of RBS and HBOS, now Lloyds, it would have happily jumped to rescue of its financial services industry.<br /><br />However Mr Swinney pointed out that although both banks were headquartered in Edinburgh 90pc of their business was conducted in England. “We would have to have discussions about how to divide up Scotland’s assets and liabilities.” <br /><br /><br />What a ridiculous idea.Mr Swinney and his SNP will bankrupt Scotland the first chance they get but you can rest assured no member of the SNP Government will suffer financially as a result.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-25181204963223161882012-11-17T11:36:10.107+00:002012-11-17T11:36:10.107+00:00Oh dear why have our rubbish newspapers not caught...Oh dear why have our rubbish newspapers not caught up on this one?Is it because their accountants have threatened to pull advertising just like the lawyers do when reports of dodgy solicitors make their way into the headlines?<br /><br />Come on you lot - 6 firms taking £8mil from the public coffers and no rags covering it?May as well not buy a paper then because the real news is online!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-39601478657444706032012-11-16T19:07:44.748+00:002012-11-16T19:07:44.748+00:00So is Park going to do something or what?Taking so...So is Park going to do something or what?Taking someone's benefits away from them is a pleasure reserved for DWP not some jumped up firm of accountants who also happen to be on the public payroll for reasons not exactly clear Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com