In my opinion, the tax justice movement in the UK, at least, needs to start addressing some new themes. Those it has been working on have been, and are, important. But there are few signs of new themes being worked on, and there are big ones to address still.
This video looks at one of those themes, which is that our tax authority - HM Revenue & Customs - is not fit for purpose because it does not even try to represent the interests of all taxpayers. And the result is that some get better deals than others. I'd suggest that the day when that should happen has passed.
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Well for me its run the way it is for obvious reasons,its a corrupt organization and has been for decades,you wonder why heads of co,s are on the board?i don,t i know why,only the plebs pay taxes, and no amount of writing about it is going to change anything.
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Illuminating ,thanks for posting, much food for thought there. We could say pretty much the same about the MPC at the Bank of England. We need a much more diverse make up in both these organisations, though I did check and see that half of the 14 HMRC board are women. Better than the ratio at the current MPC at the BoE which has only one woman out of nine.
It’s not an excuse not to campaign for it, but the professional bodies and the Big 4 usually respond to the prospect of reasonable change to any part of the tax system with: “No point doing it. The public wouldn’t understand.” See any number of reactions to even a little bit of tax transparency or a role for NGOs and civil society in discussions about international tax reform. That excuse has no standing in the face of the need for pensioners, charities and employees to be represented on HMRC’s board.