The Public Accounts Committee for this parliament has published its swan-song tax reports. It’s good enough to share in full. It makes a compelling case
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The long term tax reforms that we need
This is the final part of my series on UK tax reforms (at least, for now). I would stress, I do not think this list
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Of course the number of staff at HMRC matters when it comes to collecting tax
This exchange from Hansard a couple of days ago is interesting: Kelvin Hopkins(Luton North) (Lab): The Treasury’s problems are, above all, about income, not expenditure.
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HMRC is making fewer demands for information to tackle offshore tax cheats
International Tax Adviser has given publicity to Pinsent Masons in their secondary role as HMRC’s press agency, noting; During the 2012-13 tax year, the Revenue
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Those who say we will only have deflation for a few months are denying the facts
George Osborne has claimed 0% inflation in the UK is good news this morning and that this wholly unintended circumstance is part of the Tory economic
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The Finance Bill 2015: an exercise in democratic failure
If you want to know whether UK politicians hold parliament in contempt or not then the evidence from today is pretty compelling. The Finance Bill
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Tax avoidance and the NHS – my report for Unite
My report for Unite the Union on tax avoidance in privatised suppliers to the NHS is now available here. As I say in the forward: If
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Ranting on non-doms
A clip from yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing with Edward Troup (HMRC) about the 114,000 non-domiciled people living in the UK. This is a great, and
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