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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Tackling tax evasion via debit cards
The Times and, more accessibly, Credit Today have both reported new powers that HM Revenue & Customs have enjoyed since the beginning of September. As the
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It’s time HMRC started applying the standards required of tax returns to its own press releases
An odd dispute has broken out between the Local Government Association and HMRC on who is the better tax collector; central, or local government. The
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Late, but welcome none the less: the government cracks down on the suppliers of tax abuse
I have long argued, as have others, that tax avoidance is a supply driven market. Without the activities of what Prem Sikka calls the pinstripe
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How to make sure almost every buy-to-let landlord is taxed in two easy steps
Buy-to-let property ownership is rising, most of it fuelled by cheap loans. According to HMRC this is a major area of tax fraud. Large numbers
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Rentier Britain booms as the rest suffers
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Britain’s buy-to-let mortgage market has surged to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crash, prompting fears that
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It’s time we had a proper pro-business agenda in this country. It’s called tax justice.
I’ve been on both Sky and BBC Scotland this morning talking about the fact that HM Revenue and Customs has today again published the names and photographs of
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