Accountants seem less worried these days about getting themselves into hot water. John Cooney, tax partner at Ernst & Young, recently addressed recruiters at a breakfast seminar. Rather then a lengthy intro, he decided to get started promptly and said, "As Robert Maxwell [former owner of the Daily Mirror who drowned in 1991] once said, "Let's plunge in."
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Composite services firm Gabem was in court before the Special Commissioners this month, appealing on the tax status of contractors.
No one would call it the most entertaining event in the world, as lawyers spent days wrangling over the precise meaning of words.
Still, the chairman lightened up proceedings, with a barbed comment on the reliability of that much-maligned professional,
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