I was amused by the presentation of this Guardian article this morning: I did wonder if there was an implication that I was now the
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You can’t run a tax system on the cheap
HMRC has sent out thousands of incorrect tax statements, and made refunds of tax that are wrong. Time and again I have said you cannot
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From tax avoidance to tax evasion: the new front for UK tax justice
We have been used to talking about tax avoidance as a focus for the UK Tax Justice campaign for a long time now. Companies like
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Tackling smaller business tax abuse by fundamental reform
Right wing ‘usual suspect’ trolls have been out in force on the comments section of the blog in the last day or two saying I
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HMRC’s Westminster Abbey service
HMRC held this service on Tuesday: I’ve read the whole order of service. I am a Quaker and Christian, plus occasional Anglican. I think this
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May HMRC’s sins be forgiven
HMRC’s new directors: white, male and from big business
HMRC has announced the appointment of two new executive directors. They are Simon Ricketts, who I gather is from Rolls Royce, and Mervyn Walker who
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The UK’s corporation tax statistics are just incredible. Or wrong, if you’d prefer to put it that way
New corporation tax statistics are out from HMRC this morning. They can be looked at from all sorts of directions of course, but one of
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HMRC’s tax yield in 2013/14 was worse than 2012/13
I have already mentioned the political furore slowly developing over HMRC’s bogus claims of compliance tax yield this morning, but I also think it important
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