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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A ticking tax timebomb waiting to undermine the Tories
This amusing in the Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of families losing child benefit payments this year need to “get off their backsides” and fill in extra forms
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Venn diagrams for our times: tax policy making
In this parliament HMRC will lose 26% of its staff and £5.5 billion of its budget
The above numbers were quoted by Catherine McKinnell MP, shadow treasury secretary, at the ARC tax gap conference I attended this morning. The data is
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Big company tax investigations yield less cash, and HMRC aren’t offering the real reasons for the decline
As the FT notes this morning: The amount of additional corporation tax collected through investigations into Britain’s largest businesses has fallen to its lowest level
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