As the Guardian reports this morning: Proposals by the UK government to stop collecting information showing how the wealthy pass on their assets from one
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Online VAT fraud goes unpunished
The following press release was issued by Labour Front Bench Treasury spokesperson Rob Marris MP, working in association with long term anti-VAT fraud campaigner Richard
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How many HMRC tax investigators does it take to change a light bulb ?
Q : How many HMRC tax investigators does it take to change a light bulb? A : Sorry that information is subject to taxpayer confidentiality
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The Public Accounts Committee is deeply unimpressed by HMRC’s performance on tax abuse
The following press release from the Public Accounts Committee seems to be worth sharing in full because it reflects a great deal of what I
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Can a government committed to closing all but 14 of the UK’s tax offices be serious about tackling tax abuse?
One of the regular commentators on this blog who does, I believe, work for HMRC made this comment last night: And then there is the
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If the government is serious about collecting tax it needs people at HMRC who believe in tax
I have to admit that I have form with Ed Troup, the executive chair of HMRC. As the Guardian has noted this morning, it was
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Some get it on the Panama Papers
John McDonnell MP has written this in the Guardian this morning: There is no reason why the UK cannot use its relationship with these tax
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Failing to provide the resources HMRC needs to tackle tax abuse is in itself a form of corruption
I wrote this on March 20 this year: The Mail has reported: A clampdown on tax evaders who have salted cash away offshore will fail
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HMRC’s offshore helper
The Times has reported: A multimillion-pound Revenue & Customs publicity campaign to stamp out tax evasion and avoidance used an advertising agency ultimately controlled in
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