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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HMRC and Amazon at the Public Accounts Committee this afternoon: what I’d like to see asked
Margaret Hodge’s Public Accounts Committee have both HM Revenue & Customs and Amazon before them this afternoon. Of the two, HM Revenue & Customs is much the
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Time to end HMRC’s recognition of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange
The Jersey Evening Post has published a long article tonight which both defends and criticises the Channel Islands stock exchange. Since they never miss a
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If 100 new tax inspectors have brought in tens of millions, why can’t we have many more?
As International Adviser has reported: According to data released to UK accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young, HMRC’s yield from compliance work related to personal tax
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In the interests of honest, fairness, business and the services we all depend upon the time has come to close the tax gap
It would be all too easy to dismiss anything Chris Huhne writes as being from the mind of a man show revealed a less than
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HMRC’s new tax gap report: a work of fiction and guess work
HM Revenue & Customs have published this year’s tax gap report. If anything these reports get more ludicrous by the year. The methodology – much
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