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Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 118 – Shawn Kanungo – Try to Get Fired
Shawn Kanungo is an innovation strategist from Edmonton, Canada. He helps companies (incl. many Fortune 500) to create value in new ways. Shawn spends a lot of time speaking about disruption, innovation, AI, and the future. He was working for a Big4 audit company for 12 years. Just before his unforgettable performance on the big […]
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Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 104 – Four Interviews from Writers’ Retreat
This is a bit different episode of Tax Stories Podcast. For your attention – four interviews with four amazing people I had a chance to meet at writers’ retreat in Portugal this spring. Watch the video recording here. Nick Hughes, UK has made his career in finance. He has been working for big names like McKinsey, American […]
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Tax Stories: From Ancient Rome to 19th Century England
We continue our exploration of tax evolution in F.H.M. Grapperhaus’s wonderful book on the history of taxation, Taxes Through the Ages. Contents: The reform that destroyed Ancient Rome We are more equal! Magna Carta Fight or pay Capital tax But how to determine the value of property? The emergence of income tax What is profit […]
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Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 94 – Philippos Aristotelous – on educating lawyers
Philippos Aristotelous is a lawyer who until 2018 was leading the tax practice in the largest law firm in Cyprus. Then he switched to become a law firm management and leadership consultant and wrote a book about happiness. Watch the video recording here. In this episode we discussed: regrets of leaving the legal practice; a look from […]
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Tax Stories: Comparison of Baltic salary taxes
As an example, I took a gross salary of EUR 3,000 to put together a table showing what the Baltic States’ payroll taxation looks like after Lithuania’s 2026 tax reform. Read the full story by tax expert Jānis Taukačs here.