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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HMRC’s tax gap data implies they are more than 100% efficient in beating big business avoidance each year and that’s just not credible
I have posted HMRC’s response to the Public Accounts Committee on this blog this morning: it seemed only fair to do so. That said, I
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HMRC’s right of reply
I think it only fair to publish here the following press release issued by HMRC yesterday before commenting on it: HMRC has responded to today’s
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Public Accounts Committee slams HMRC – but now it’s time for solutions
The Public Accounts Committee has published its report on HMRC this morning and it is damning. The summary says: In pursuing unpaid tax, HM Revenue
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Tackling false self employments in one easy step
The government announced in the Autumn Statement last week that: As the next step [in tackling abuse of employment taxation], Autumn Statement 2013 announces action
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HMRC staff are not being protected by the autumn statement – they’re being invited to leave, right now
It was said in the autumn statement that the HMRC budget was being protected from cuts. That must come as news to many in HMRC
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The Swiss tax agreement – £3.2 billion in a year has suddenly become £1.4 billion, at best
Famously the UK Swiss tax agreement was supposed to generate £3 billion of tax receipts this year. Even in June 2013 the OBR was saying
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