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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HMRC can talk about individual taxpayer’s affairs – so what they’ve said to the PAC is wrong
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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Failing to enforce the national minimum wage is another of HMRC’s failings
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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Tax haven UK runs a voluntary box corporation tax system for those who’d like to pay
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 argument is over: HMRC understate the tax gap
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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Edward Troup’s defence should have been “I’ve changed my mind” but we never heard it
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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Some of us said the UK – Swiss tax deal was full of holes from the start and now we know that’s true
Amongst the outcomes of yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee hearing in which HMRC were interviewed about their performance was the revalation that the UK – Swiss
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Today’s Public Accounts Committee Hearing with HMRC – exposing the fact that we’re just not getting the service we need
I blogged twice this morning in anticipation of today’s Public Accounts Committee investigation of HMRC relating to its 2012/13 accounts. I suggested questions needing answers
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The PAC and HMRC this afternoon: questions for Edward Troup, the HMRC boss who does not believe in its right to tax
The Public Accounts Committee is interrogating HMRC this afternoon, as I’ve already noted. Principle witness for HMRC is Edward Troup, Tax Assurance Commissioner and second Permanent
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