In 2015 I worked with the BBC Today programme on an investigation into a recruitment agency called the Anderson Group that looked as if it
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I was asked recently how effective the so-called Google Tax had been at beating corporate tax abuse. More correctly called the Diverted Profit Tax, this
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I have come across a curious anomaly in HMRC’s statistics. I am publishing this commentary in the hope that an explanation is available that I
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The National Audit Office report into HMRC’s mishandling of online VAT fraud, which it suggests has been costing the country at least £1.5 billion a
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Labour has announced that it is making it policy that large companies should publish their tax returns alongside their accounts. I wrote about this issue
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Concerns over HMRC’s IT ability should be growing rapidly. Recently it was revealed that some taxpayers are being asked to submit paper tax returns this year
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Worth listening to:

As the FT reports this morning Software glitches are putting thousands of people at risk of paying hundreds of pounds too much tax next year,
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Comments from me were included in a report on HMRC’s failure to collect customs duties owing at UK ports on Radio 4 on Wednesday night.
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