Many newspapers give appropriate attention this morning to a new report from the Public Accounts Committee that says HMRC is struggling with its workload and that
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HMRC’s office closure programme is about to be revealed as the disaster it’s always been
The Harwich and Manningtree Standard is not a usual source here, but a news report it covered seems highly pertinent in the light of the
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The madness of HMRC and Border Force cuts as we face Brexit
According to Theresa May austerity has ended. According to Philip Hammond it has not. I know who I believe. And it is not the Prime Minister.
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HMRC have lost touch with the reality of what is happening on the ground with regard to VAT
A month or so ago I made a series of Freedom of Information requests of HMRC with regard to VAT. They are all summarised in
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The investigation of 839 offshore tax cheats proves that change is possible
In 2005 I wrote this with John Christensen: Automatic information exchange between countries would go a long way towards tackling the culture of tax evasion and
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The UK’s VAT gap – my evidence to the Treasury Committee
I gave evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap. This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them
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We’ve all paid a massive price for UK politicians failure to believe in tax justice
The Times has reported that: Amazon has shut down the accounts of thousands of Chinese companies that use the website to sell cheap products in
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It’s time HMRC joined tax reformers in recognising the changes needed to tackle the tax gap
The very fact that videos like this can be and are made is some indication of the change in tax culture over the last decade.
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HMRC’s failure to come to terms with the tax gap represents gross negligence on its part, and that of its political masters
The government was not meant to make any announcements yesterday so that nothing distracted from the Grenfell Tower anniversary. So HMRC published their latest tax gap
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