It would seem that I walked into another minor hornet’s nest when tweeting, and then blogging, about Tax Watch UK director George Turner’s suggestion that
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Why is HMRC so sure that there is more tax to collect from multinationals?
The Financial Times has suggested this morning that: The British government has launched a crackdown on multinationals suspected of wrongly reducing their UK tax bills
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HMRC represents the interests of big business, and unsurprisingly they get the best deal from it as a result. The time for that to change has arrived.
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
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The Public Accounts Committee do not believe HMRC’s tax gap data, as I’ve been saying for years
The Public Accounts Committee has published a report this morning on HM Revenue & Customs’ approach to estimating the U.K. tax gap. It is pretty
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The tax gap: why HMRC has always seriously underestimated it
The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on HM Revenue and Custom’s tax gap estimates this morning. As I will note in a
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Reforming the tax gap calculation is long overdue, but not if the result is just another set of fixed data
I missed this in The Mail on Sunday last weekend: The Government’s claim that £31billion of taxes go uncollected each year is based on a
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It’s time to review tax reliefs – because they could be hopelessly misspent
As the Public Accounts Committee has noted this morning: The Government knows too little about the tax reliefs it provides: whether they work, or offer
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Is HMRC being Orwellian?
It’s easy to forget that the day job of Winston Smith in 1984 was rewriting history. As Orwell said: Who controls the past controls the future.
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