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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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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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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The Independent has made a bit of a splash this morning on the fact that George Osborne has mislead parliament on the amount of tax
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HMRC’s senior management have done some quite bizarre things over they years since it was created to the point that I presumed that there was
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I have not commented in any depth on the newly contentious issues of follower notices and accelerated payment notices that have, as a result of
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Tax barrister Jolyon Maugham is rapidly becoming one of the leading commentators in the tax debate in the UK, with a welcome left of centre
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A month ago I wrote that HMRC’s claimed ‘compliance yield’ was, to be polite, pretty much made up. The National Audit Office put it more
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The National Audit Office’s report on HMRC’s 2013-14 accounts includes some pretty damning commentary on its work in closing the tax gap – or increasing
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