As The Independent has reported: Taxes totalling £800m could go unpaid this year because of border checks on lorries being scaled back to avoid queues
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Alienation of the taxpayer is no way to run a tax system. HMRC should take note.Â
The FT has reported this morning that HM Revenue & Customs are refusing to extend the tax return submission deadline this year. As a result
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Time to move on from the straitjacket of the limited company
In 2007 I wrote the blog post that follows. This afternoon I am presenting the paper that is linked within that post to the Loan
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We don’t need more threats to prosecute tax cheats to increase tax revenue: we need a general anti-avoidance principle
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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