The All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax is holding the following event:
How do we build public trust in HMRC?
10am, Wednesday 16th November 2016
Committee Room 6, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
HMRC has received sustained scrutiny in recent years about its ability to collect tax fairly and effectively while providing good customer service. Hosted by the APPG on Responsible Tax, this seminar will examine how we can build public trust in HMRC.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax are holding this public seminar as part of our consultation on public confidence in HMRC. This is the first of a series of events.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Margaret Hodge MP, Chair, APPG on Responsible Tax (event chair)
- Jolyon Maugham, Barrister, Devereux Chambers
- Professor Kimberley Scharf, Warwick University
- Richard Murphy, Director, Tax Research UK
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
CoVi is the co-Secretariat of the APPG on Responsible Tax
The All-Party Parliamentary group on Responsible Tax was established in September 2015. Chaired by Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge MP, the other officers are Lord Stewart Wood, Richard Bacon MP, Charlotte Leslie MP, Ian Blackwood MP, Mark Durkan MP, Caroline Flint MP, Craig Mackinlay MP, and Seema Malhotra MP. The group also has thirty Parliamentary members.
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Good luck with the speech, Richard, but to be honest in the current climate of sweetheart deals by a government desperate to stop the “flight of the makers,” I can’t see May and co. paying much attention to any report that suggests greater fairness. And even if HMRC is reformed, the current very right wing crew are unlikely to make taxation as a whole more progressive – quite the opposite in fact. Sorry if this sounds gloomy; it’s that kind of day (Trump and snow).
Perhaps some publicity could be given to the judicial reviews that looked at the details of the so-called sweetheart deals and concluded that they were no such thing?
Perhaps publicity could be given to the reason behind so few prosecutions? Official government policy via the Hansard extract rather than any failure to act by HMRC?
Perhaps publicity should be given to the non-stop recent series of court wins by HMRC against tax avoidance schemes?
All these things would help restore some faith in HMRC.
Alas it seems that MPs and activists seem to have their own publicity seeking agenda. I guess “HMRC doing rather well” doesn’t attract attention or grants.
Perhaps you might question why policy favours the well off
Perhaps you might question why big business gets access that small ones do not
Perhaps you might ask why there have been so few prosecutions on tax but many on benefits
Perhaps you might consider unanswered mail and phone queues
Perhaps you might take off your blinkers
Gosh – I’m so glad Caroline Flint is on this working group!!
The HMRC is regarded by the public as an organisation that is ‘strong with the weak and weak with the strong’, until there is an independent ( not the big accountancy firms) board to represent the good taxpayers of this country to direct the HMRC, nothing will change.
The way small business and PAYE employees are treated as opposed to corporates is a national disgrace, and the complacency and conspiracy of our governing classes over the past 20 years quite appalling. No wonder people are angry, if the HMRC are as ‘bent as a nine bob note’ what respect can be given to our parliamentary system and government?
It’s a great list of speakers, and our rabid media will be against you all, but good luck.
P
Thanks
And….. 10 a.m. on a Wednesday?
Obviously not interested in having those who work for a living coming along to express their view!
It is a parliamentary group….
They are working for a living
Is this linked at all with http://www.responsibletax.org.uk? I ask as I’ve just had an invitation from them to ‘get involved with our work on how business and civil society organisations can work together to achieve a better tax system’. Not sure if I have time to get too involved but just wondering how closely they’re connected.
It looks like it’s the same people as there’s a link to covi.org.uk but not totally clear to me.
I consider this a KPMG front
Covi is a shared link but they are different