HMRC announced to its staff this lunchtime that it is closing 281 Face to Face Enquiry Centres by June this year. As PCS, the union
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When HMRC’s most senior staff strike for the first time the time for change has arrived
As Accountancy Age have reported: An HM Revenue & Customs strike involving members of the Association of Revenue and Customs union is to take place
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Why doesn’t HMRC think our opinions count?
I was sent a report by HMRC yesterday on what it called its ‘Stakeholder Research’. You can find this here. This is how the short
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If you want a tax refund you can have one
This Friday is tax return final submission day so let me share a fact about tax returns that few people seem to know. Every single
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HMRC evidence on the state of the economy
HMRC have just published data on tax receipts for 2013. Playing with their spreadsheet for just a few minutes I came up with the following
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Tax evasion in the Cayman Islands? Surely not…
This headline in Accountancy Age made me smile for a number of reasons: Why? First of all because HMRC are doing something about tax evasion.
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Why is Volker Becker of Npower on the board of HMRC?
The Mirror reports this morning that: A fatcat who helped energy firm Npower’s owners avoid millions of pounds in tax now sits on the board of HM
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The pressure of trying to collect tax when the government doesn’t want you to succeed
There was a shocking report in Wales Online yesterday: More than 17,000 days have been taken off work as a result of stress-related illness at
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HMRC begin 2014 behind….again
This report came from AccountingWeb, just before Christmas: HMRC’s large-business service, which deals with the tax affairs of the UK’s 770 largest companies, had 2,314 unresolved
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