http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/banks/windfall-tax-banks-4258554/ Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance Thu, 17 May 2012 04:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/banks/windfall-tax-banks-4258554/#comment-10762 Director of Finance Online - Blogs - The Edge » Blog Archive » The windfall banks tax is gaining support Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:07:40 +0000 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/?p=368#comment-10762 [...] it time for a new windfall tax on banks?” asked this blog back in the summer. It seems so. The Westminster press briefing is that the chancellor is [...] [...] it time for a new windfall tax on banks?” asked this blog back in the summer. It seems so. The Westminster press briefing is that the chancellor is [...]

]]> http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/banks/windfall-tax-banks-4258554/#comment-9333 Jim May Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:15:19 +0000 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/the-edge/?p=368#comment-9333 Actually HSBC would have hardly made any profit at all if the £4.7 billion cost of the rights issue had been included on the balance sheet. I thought the Government was going to toughen up the the rules on companies' financial reporting but has all that been forgotten now in their political need to hype up rate of gowth of "the green shoots"? Actually HSBC would have hardly made any profit at all if the £4.7 billion cost of the rights issue had been included on the balance sheet. I thought the Government was going to toughen up the the rules on companies’ financial reporting but has all that been forgotten now in their political need to hype up rate of gowth of “the green shoots”?

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