I made this speech (or something very like it) at the PCS conference in Brighton this afternoon. My focus was, of course on the tax gap, but the big
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The Parliamentary Accounts Committee has issued a report saying it is not convinced by HMRC’s logic that sacking staff pays. It has said that if
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Zoe Williams has written an exceptional article on social mobility in the Guardian this morning. I strongly recommend reading it all but the kernel of her idea
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The Associated Press summary of the Parliamentary Accounts Committee report on the effectiveness of HMRC says: Job cuts among revenue officials meant GBP1.1 billion less unpaid tax was recouped than
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The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on the effectiveness of HMRC. Its chair, Margaret Hodge MP has said: There is at least £35 billion outstanding in uncollected
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As Owen Tudor has reported on the TUC’s Touchstone blog: The European Parliament voted yesterday — by a thumping 487 to 152 — for a Europe-wide Financial
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In May’s Taxcast: Tax haven insiders speak out, the co-founder of Facebook ‘unfriends’ the US, and Europe considers a Financial Transaction Tax.