In January this year HM Revenue & Customs launches a new tax amnesty for large businesses in the UK. As I noted at the time:
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The world really is full of crap. That’s my abbreviation for Completely Rubbish Approximations to the truth. Take this report I saw yesterday based on
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HMRC have announced a new tax amnesty. And this time it is for big business. It’s called the Profit Diversion Compliance Facility, and what it
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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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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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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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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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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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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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