The Fair Tax Mark has issued a new report on the tax strategy reporting of the largest 50 companies in the FTSE 100. As it
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What to do about the tax gap
It so happens that the day before the new UK tax gap data was published by HMRC my suggestions on how this issue might be
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Public Accounts Committee say HMRC must be tougher on online marketplaces
The Public Accounts Committee has now reported on its hearings on online VAT fraud. The summary of their report, which will be issued this morning,
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Three things I did not write about this week
I am aware that I have an above average blog posting rate, even if the sample base is restricted to bloggers. But there are still
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HMRC’s offshore paper tigers
The FT has an article today on the requirement that tax advisers write by the end of this month to all their clients who they believe
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Collecting tax due on rent and buy-to-let gains is not hard but the government refuses to do it
The London Borough of Newham has suggested that its research has shown that half of all its buy-to-let landlords were not registered for self assessment
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Making Tax Digital – time for more simplification
I thought it worth sharing what follows on HMRC’s Making Tax Digital programme, on which I wrote quite a lot earlier this year. Making Tax
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Why are HMRC planning to fail?
HMRC’s 2016-17 accounts open with this statement: In fairness they put most of this increase down to external factors. But I don’t. I think this
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The average member of staff at PWC is paid twice what the average HMRC employee earns
I was reading HMRC’s accounts for 2016 – 17 yesterday (as one does on a Saturday afternoon) when a data curiosity hit me with regard
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