My Tax Justice Network colleague has a typically thoughtful and measured article in the Guardian this morning discussing how we tackle tax havens. Having considered many of the
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Guernsey admits it is in the Black Hole I predicted in 2005. Jersey’s still in denial
There was a fascinating comment article in the Guernsey Press yesterday which said: The States need to fill the black hole, it also needs to
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Labour wants your opinion on the tax gap and tax havens
Labour has launched a new consultation on tax as part of its Stability and Prosperity Policy Commission process. In its call for submissions it says: The
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Concerned Africa Scholars: the benefits of country-by-country reporting
Channel 4 FactCheck provides the evidence that Cameron’s claims on tackling tax avoidance are just a work of fiction
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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