I take it as read that HMRC’s tax gap data is nonsense: I have explained why that has to be the case many times, most
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I thought it worth posting some comparable data on the tax gap. This is how HMRC is saying today that it has moved over time:
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HMRC have issued their tax gap report for 2014, which relates to the tax year 2012/13. Predictably the figure is ludicrously low. They say it
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UK inflation has fallen to 1.2%, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), which is the government’s preferred measure. The retail prices index measure
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The Independent has first rate report on money laundering using UK front companies this morning. The report itself is detailed and well worth reading: billions
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I know it has been said I have called seven of the last three stock exchange downturns and I am, it is true, generally bearish,
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The following press release was issued by the EU yesterday: The Council agreed today on a draft directive extending the scope for the mandatory automatic exchange
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David Quentin tweeted during a tax discussion yesterday that companies “really are emanations of the state; creatures of statute”. David was absolutely right and he
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