HM Revenue & Customs published its new tax gap figures yesterday. They are nonsense, as they always have been. I have explained why here as
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It’s time to get rid of the UK’s tax anomalies
I have posted this video this morning. In it, I suggest that the UL tax system is riddled with anomalies and loopholes and that if
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We have found the limits of the digital world. There is still a need for human beings. HMRC should acknowledge the fact
The National Audit Office has issued a damning report on HM Revenue & Customs telephone support services, saying: Customers cumulatively spent 798 years on hold
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Tallking to AccountingWEB
AccountingWEB published this podcast interview with me yesterday. We talk about the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 in the main, but also about my concerns about
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The Guardian agrees: Labour’s tax problems can’t be solved by a cosy coterie of old insiders
This comment was posted on the blog overnight by long term occasional commentator Jonathan: Interestingly, now the Guardian have discovered your Taxing Wealth Report it
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Why has Rachel Reeves appointed as her tax adviser a person who has said that tax is extortion and told parliament that he was not too worried about small businesses not paying their taxes?
Rachel Reeves has appointed Sir Edward Troup to be one of her four new tax advisers. He might be a former boss of HM Revenue
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The Taxing Wealth Report and tax justice
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is as follows: Right at the very heart of the Taxing Wealth Report is the
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We need the tax system to work, which means Rachel Reeves will have to do a lot more than she’s planning
The Guardian has reported that: Labour has appointed an expert panel to advise the party on ways to tackle tax avoidance following its plan to reap
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Rachael Reeves will not close the tax gap by looking overseas. Pretending that the problem is elsewhere is no longer realistic. It’s in her own backyard.
Rachel Reeves is making an announcement today on how she will plug the gap that she thinks exists in her financial plans as a consequence
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