Radio 5 Live has been asking the questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PWGP0t7I4 <ore good work by the tireless Richard Allen.
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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HMRC survey finds that people think that tax avoidance is unacceptable
HMRC have published the results of a survey that they have undertaken on people’s attitudes towards tax avoidance this morning. This is, perhaps, the most
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Fisking HMRC claims on multinational corporations
HMRC has issued a ‘fact sheet’ on why they are good at dealing with multinational corporations. There is a problem with it. Most of it is
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Tax avoidance does not work unless you’re a big business, when it’s just fine
Greg Wise’s Dispatches on Channel 4 last night showed that the tax avoidance industry is alive and well and exploiting tax loopholes. Afterwards HMRC issued
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I would really rather HMRC did not seize tax
HMRC issued the following press release in the last few minutes: The release relates to sums collected using the new Accelerated Payments procedure that requires
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Today’s Treasury Select Committee: my speaking notes
Treasury Select Committee Hearing 2 February 2016 Speaking notes prepared by Richard Murphy FCA Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University, London and
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Labour calls on National Audit Office to intervene on Google tax
I noticed this letter on my Twitter timeline last night: Writing to the National Audit Office, Seema Malhotra, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said:
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