I liked this, from the Channel 4 Factcheck website: The analysis is based on Cameron’s claim that the government were reinvesting £900 million in HMRC
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Average cost of local authority benefit fraud per case, £2,166. Average cost of tax avoidance, per case, £248,780
I thought the astonishing average £248,780 cost of each tax avoidance case identified as outstanding at H M Revenue & Customs by the National Audit Office should be benchmarked for
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HMRC’s failure: tax avoidance is increasing year by year
HMRC has said for the last few years that closing the tax gap is its number one objective. I think that appropriate. The tax gap is
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Every one of the 41,000 tax avoiders identified by the National Audit Office is costing the country £248,780
The National Audit Office published the following key facts in its report on H M Revenue & Customs’s management of marketed tax avoidance schemes: I hate to say
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The NAO verdict is that HMRC is in denial about tax avoidance
I was out and about yesterday and so had little time to read or comment upon the National Audit Office (NAO) report on HMRC and marketed tax avoidance schemes.
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If we’re to beat the tax avoidance crisis the National Audit Office identify then we must have a General Anti-Tax Avoidance Bill
The National Audit Office report on HMRC’s performance on tax avoidance, issued today, is an important document, not least because it makes it very clear that HMRC
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If Cameron wants to use the G8 to tackle tax abuse, I’m all for it
David Cameron, yesterday: But it’s not right if you have businesses instead of paying some taxes somewhere are paying no taxes anywhere. And the G8
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The state of the world this morning – fraud, fraud and more fraud
A Tory MP backs country-by-country reporting
I was delighted to see this report in the International Tax Review: Stephen McPartland, a Conservative member of the UK parliament, told International Tax Review
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