These worrying statements are included in the autumn statement: The privatisation of tax collection in the UK continues apace – undermining the quality, credibility, privacy
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The Public Accounts Committee is having a hearing on Gift Aid this afternoon. I made my views on this known a year or so ago. As
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HM Revenue & Customs admit the UK tax gap exceeds £35 billion a year. I argue it exceeds £95 billion on top of which there
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I have discussed this morning the Judicial Review of Ingenious Media – in which it has been found that HMRC do have the right to
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As many readers of this blog will know, the standard response of HMRC when asked about the affairs of companies like Google, Amazon and Starbucks
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As Polly Toynbee argues in the Guardian this morning: Welfare dependency isn’t Britain’s gravest economic problem. Pitiful pay is. If the government really wanted to cut
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The extent to which the UK has become a tax haven became apparent yesterday at the Public Accounts Committee Hearing when Margaret Hodge asked why
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The tax gap debate in the UK was pretty much first sparked by my February 2008 paper for the TUC entitled The Missing Billions. Old
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I wrote yesterday referring to a 1999 Financial Times article by Ed Troup who is now the permanent secretary for HM Revenue & Customs in which
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