2014 May 21

Is corporation tax now an ‘honesty box’ tax – paid only by the willing and unenforced on the rest?

Posted on May 21 2014

In my new report ‘In the Shade: the UK’s missing economy’ I suggest that HM Revenue & Customs are lax, in the extreme, in their efforts
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If HMRC are so good at collecting corporation tax why don’t they collect 99.9% of all corporation tax penalties?

Posted on May 21 2014

Over a number of months Carline Lucas MP has asked a series of parliamentary questions seeking to secure information regarding the penalties paid by companies
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Why Â£40 billion of tax evasion in the shadow economy matters

Posted on May 21 2014

I had this column on the Independent website yesterday: It was just chance that I decided to publish my new report on the size of the UK’s
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