Both the FT and the Guardian note criticisms of HM Revenue & Customs raised by the National Audit Office this morning. As the NAO says:
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HMRC’s steady decline continues
As the FT noted a couple of days ago: The number of HM Revenue & Customs investigations into serious tax fraud and avoidance has fallen
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Will Reeves reform HM Revenue & Customs?
Yahoo News appears to be just about the only media with this news story this morning: Tax dodgers will be targeted by Rachel Reeves, who
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Who and what should Labour tax?
Labour gave no positive clues on where they might raise revenue during the election campaign. So, what might they do in the October budget? And
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Labour should be picking on tax cheats
In this morning’s video, I argue that instead of picking on children in poverty and pensioners needing support with fuel bills to pay the price
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If Rachel Reeves wants more money she needs to crack down on small business tax evasion
The National Audit Office (NAO) published a report this morning that says: The UK is losing billions of pounds a year in revenue due to
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We need to reform inheritance tax now if rising inequality is to be tackled
The FT had an article yesterday in which it referred to what it called the great wealth transfer. As it noted: Over the next 20
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Labour could make business publish what it pays
This morning’s ‘Labour could’ video has now been published. In it, I argue that big business pays a large proportion of the UK’s taxes. They
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The last thing this Labour government needs to deliver is austerity
We have a new government that is dedicated to austerity on the basis of its claim that ‘there is no money left’. It seems like
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