I’ve been asked to draw attention to an invitation to attend a free public event at the European Conference on Banking and the Economy (‘Banking: Seeking a New
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I am well aware that ministers and HMRC’s senior management like to say my criticism of their tax gap figure is misplaced. After all they say, admitting
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There was a recent discussion on this blog about the history of Low Value Consignment Relief – the VAT system that has been systematically abused
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I’ve finally had a chance to have a quick look at what Nick Clegg said yesterday. This jumped out, when he was Labour bashing (which
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As the Telegraph (a paper I’m liking more and more now Sean O’Hare is working for it) has reported: The US pledged yesterday to participate in the Extractive
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HMRC have been issuing massively misleading reports that the tax gap fell by £7bn last year. It didn’t, and I have explained why here. Using
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I’m going to repeat the HMRC tax gap table just published:                            
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I now have details of the 2011 tax gap estimates, based on the tax year 2009-10. The table looks like this: This is in itself
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