This chart comes from a National Audit Office publication issued today as a result of their review of HMRC’s 2013-14 accounts. I cannot as yet
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If the ICAEW wants a better tax system it should demand more resources for HMRC
I took part in the annual Wyman tax debate at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales last night. The debate was on
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HMRC’s revolving door is still working
I was assured last night by a former very senior member of staff at HMRC staff that he thought much of what I said was
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A society that fails to fight widespread tax evasion proclaims its own corruption
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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