Business or Russian Roulette?
Western businesses have an uphill struggle to get on in post-Communist Russia. Chris Wilkins reports.The papers are full of it; television documentaries extol it - Russia is the place to…
Taxing Times
In April, the Inland Revenue issued the new income tax self assessment forms which we all fully expected, but for which we are almost certainly unpreparedThere is something about the…
Doing Business in Russia
Chris Wilkins FCCA has clients in St Petersburg, Moscow and Kazakhstan. He has travelled on business in Russia and regularly grapples with the vagaries of Russian taxes. Here he explores…
The Chinese Puzzle
"It's Norman on the line", my secretary said."Hi Chris, how's it hanging?", Norman always started his conversations with the same opening gambit.The phone line from Toronto was crackling, so he…
Cash or Crash
How often have you seen a seemingly solid company go under – not because it hadn’t a wealth of assets, nor because it was not making healthy profits, but merely…