Amongst the very limited good news in this week’s budget was the announcement that the likes of Amazon and eBay are to be made liable
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What I want for the Budget part 2: Some real wealth taxation in the UK
I have already noted some tax reforms I would wish for this morning. This is in anticipation of this week’s budget. Calls for technical reform though
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What I want for the Budget part 1: Some effective tax reforms to create tax justice in the UK
Budget week is coming. Following the Paradise Papers there will be hopes that more might be announced on steps to be taken to beat tax
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We’re heading for a Customs melt down as HMRC fail to plan for Brexit
The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has just (9am) published a consensus, all party, report suggesting that it would be catastrophic if
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The UK loses 20% of total corporate profits to tax havens but HMRC are in denial about the missing £7 billion
This is from Gabriel Zucman’s latest work: The UK is losing over 20% of all corporate profits that should be subject to tax before they
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The law we need to really regulate companies and trusts
John McDonnell appropriately called for proper registers of beneficial ownership for companies and trusts in the Uk and its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories today.
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Are the Commissioners of HMRC failing to protect the public revenue?
Jolyon Maugham has posted the following on his blog today under the heading ‘Something is very wrong at HMRC’. I repost it with his permission,
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I would love the Uk to have reliable tax gap data, but right now that still looks like an aspiration and not a reality
It has not taken me long to have my usual doubts about HMRC’s latest annual report on the tax gap. This is their summary of
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HMRC’s new tax gap data: too predictable to be reliable?
HMRC has literally just published its 2017 tax gap estimate. And, as I predicted to many, the answer is, as it has almost invariably been,
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