HMRC’s new tax gap data, on which I wrote last night, is wrong. I can say that with considerable confidence, having torn it to shreds
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HMRC has published this year’s version of their Tax Gap report. The supposed Tax Gap that they report is £36 billion. This is the table
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Anyone who has observed HMRC’s continuing management debacles since its shotgun birth more than a decade ago will know that one name dominates its lists
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If Theresa May is serious about the reforms she announced yesterday then she could prove it very easily by starting with a radical overhaul of
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The All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Taxation has a new call for papers out. Their plan is to hold an inquiry into public confidence
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I addressed a group of parliamentary researchers who were meeting at the National Assembly in Cardiff yesterday. Drawn from all of the UK’s parliaments and
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Labour’s Tax review, published yesterday, includes the recommendation that: Tax returns, related computations and documents of all large companies must be made publicly available. The
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Labour has published the first stage of its review of HMRC, written by my old friend Pro Prem Sikka of Essex University. The Review recommends:
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According to an HMRC press release issued yesterday that announced new obligations on tax evaders if they were to avoid tax geared penalties of up
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