The government has today announced new figures for settlements made under tax disclosure arrangements created for Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The data is
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The first five years of tax collection by George Osborne: a progress report
The National Audit Office has published the following table of tax receipts over the five years of the Coalition government as part of its review of
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HMRC’s running away from you
HMRC published it annual report yesterday. One of its claims, styled as an achievement, was that it now has only 170 offices compared with 539
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Where does £5 billion of tax savings from beating avoidance and evasion come from?
This, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, is where a little over £5 billion of savings from tackling tax avoidance and evasion come from over
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Is there any real new investment in HMRC? I’m not convinced
This press release was issued by the Association for Revenue & Customs, the union that represents the tope grade of staff at HMRC this afternoon:
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Almost everyone in tax agrees that the time for reform of our tax system has arrived
The IFS issued the following statement yesterday under the title ‘Time for Tax Reform’: Our process for making overall tax policy is, and has been
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No way to run a tax authority
HMRC have an appropriately tough time in the press this morning. Many papers cover the fact that up to one third of calls to HMRC
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It’s time the government came clean on the tax gap
I see from Hansard that David Gauke, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, was discussing the tax gap in Parliament on Tuesday. Amongst the claims
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HMRC is under resourced – and it’s accountants saying so
Accountancy Age reported late last week that: A poll of 73 Accountancy Age readers found that … the majority of respondents felt the taxman had been
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