I gave evidence to the Treasury Select Committee in February, during the course of which I was asked to clarify what I meant by tax
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The crackdown on tax abuse is failing because HMRC don’t have the resources to chase the crooks
The Mail has reported: A clampdown on tax evaders who have salted cash away offshore will fail to hit its target of more than £1
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I think Lin Homer, George Osborne and David Gauke owe me an apology
The budget announced a might big crack down on big corporate tax avoidance in the UK. And quite a lot of other tax avoidance too,
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George’s tax fiddling does not work
The Daily Mail has a headline this morning that says: Savings tax shambles: New rules will soon let you earn £1,000 interest tax-free – yet
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The UK’s country-by-country reporting regulations look set to let most foreign companies off the hook
The UK published its final country-by-country reporting regs for tax purposes last week. They do, unfortunately, include this provision: 5.–(1) “United Kingdom country-by-country report” means a
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HMRC should stop lying on behalf of tax cheats
I am grateful to Jolyon Maugham for noticing an issue in one of the many publications put out by HMRC this week; the plethora presumably
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£2 billion of VAT fraud and where are HMRC?
Why does HMRC need a boss who thinks tax is legalised extortion?
Ed Troup is the new boss of HMRC, it has been announced. I wrote this of him in 2013: What worries me is when those [like
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Osborne’s forecasts for self assessment tax look as ropey as I forecast in 2013
HMRC have published new figures on tax receipts today that let me look at one of the critical assumptions underpinning George Osborne’s plans for a
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