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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The FT reports in an email this morning that: A whistleblower who helped expose false accounting at Deutsche Bank has turned down a multimillion-dollar award
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The FT has reported this morning that: The decision to scrap paper tax discs from British cars cost the government more than £400m in its
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I posted some comments on HMRC’s lax attitude towards self employment in the so-called gig economy on Twitter a couple of days ago. This was
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