Lin Homer is the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs. It was announced that she is to become Dame Lin Homer in the New Years
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HMRC don’t prosecute the right people – and almost no one for corporate tax fraud
There are two charts in the National Audit Office report on HMRC’s abysmal record on estimating the scale of and then tackling tax fraud that
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The National Audit Office fails to ask the right questions of HMRC on the tax gap
The National Audit Office has published another dire report, only a day after it completely missed the target with its review of NHS trusts. This time
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The Office for Budget Responsibility have their doubts about HMRC’s digital plans
I am not a fan of HMRC’s plans to digitise tax services. I note I am not the only one with doubts. The Office for Budget
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When HMRC can do basic tax calculations they can go digital but right now they can’t
I have been commenting on HMRC’s plans to make all tax services digital. I do not believe this will (and maybe even can) work. Let
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HMRC’s new digital burdens on business agenda only applies to small businesses. Why are big ones to be let off?
If you read HMRC’s plan to impose the burden of quarterly digital accounting on business with care you rapidly realise it is only going to
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HMRC’s digital accounting will become the biggest obstacle to small business growth in UK history
I wrote a lengthy note on Friday about the plan that I knew HMRC would be announcing today that it calls Making Tax Digital: The
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Take HSBC, add Jersey and mix with HMRC
The FT has reported this morning that: Jersey bank account holders have been invited by the UK tax authority to declare any undisclosed tax liabilities
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HMRC’s new quarterly accounting proposals are just wrong and could backfire badly
There is some anger in the tax profession at the creation of a strict liability offence for offshore tax evasion at present, but if I
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