The following is reposted from the London School of Business and Finance website, in the public interest: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are looking for
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David Gauke needs to put £1 billion in contingent liabilities
HMRC issued a breathy press release overnight saying: HMRC has collected £1 billion in tax payments from users of tax avoidance schemes as a result
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HMRC is wide open to abuse because of a lack of staff
The Mail has reported that a carpenter in Hull has been convicted of defrauding HMRC by retrospecively adjusting his on line tax returns to claim tax refunds
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To prosecute, or not?
HMRC have published new qualitative research on the attitudes of those given custodial sentences for tax evasion. I have not read it all in detail
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That review of HMRC is still needed
Before the May election Labour promised that it would undertake a review of HMRC if it was returned to power. It wasn’t, of course, but
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Is the taxman really coming?
The FT has a ‘long read’ article this morning entitled HMRC: The taxman cometh By Tom Burgis and Vanessa Houlder the subtitle is: UK authorities
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Tax for our times
I was invited by the Fabians to contribute a chapter on the governance of HMRC for their new book on tax: You can download it
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Why, oh why, aren’t HMRC doing what is really needed when it comes to data collection?
The government has issued a flood of new tax consultations, almost as if they wish to overwhelm the market and make sure only very limited
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HMRC and I are singing from a hymn sheet, if only for the first verse
HMRC published a new consultation document on increasing large business tax compliance yesterday. I welcome it. Tax avoidance or ‘aggressive tax planning’ Tax avoidance or
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