The New York Times has an article on Gabriel Zucman’s estimates of the sums hidden in tax havens this morning. I recommend reading it although
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HMRC and the minimum wage: more questions than answers on why some abusers aren’t named and shamed
HMRC has published a list of minimum wage offenders this morning. It has responsibility for policing enforcement of the minimum wage on behalf of the
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HMRC are losing their dawn raid touch
Accountancy Age had an interesting article yesterday (and it’s not often I say that these days). As they reported: The number of dawn raids carried out
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Information needed: just what was in the £23.9bn that HMRC claimed it had collected?
I wrote last week about how inappropriate I thought HMRC’s claims with regard to £23.9bn of extra tax collected by it as a result of
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HMRC’s claim to be collecting £23.9 billion a year from compliance is about as bogus as a fraudster’s tax return
I commented a couple of days ago about the story circulated to the press by HMRC in which it claimed that it had collected £23.9
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HMRC can’t close the tax gap by making numbers up
Ths FT reports this morning that: HM Revenue & Customs booked more than £8bn of extra tax from big businesses in the year to April,
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HMRC really do not want to collect corporation tax
I have mentioned this week that corporation tax is being turned into an honesty box tax. This is an obvious conclusion from the work in
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Is corporation tax now an ‘honesty box’ tax – paid only by the willing and unenforced on the rest?
In my new report ‘In the Shade: the UK’s missing economy’ I suggest that HM Revenue & Customs are lax, in the extreme, in their efforts
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If HMRC are so good at collecting corporation tax why don’t they collect 99.9% of all corporation tax penalties?
Over a number of months Carline Lucas MP has asked a series of parliamentary questions seeking to secure information regarding the penalties paid by companies
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