As the Mail reports this morning: George Osborne’s plan to raise billions from a tax raid on secret Swiss bank accounts has been cast into
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There is a fascinating, and worrying, article in The Scotsman this morning, saying: The taxman has denied that there has been a change in its
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According to the Guardian: HM Revenue and Customs’s resource budget will be cut by 5%, but extra resources will be provided to tackle tax evasion.
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I mentioned in my last blog the claim by the Treasury that £3.2 billion has been received from Switzerland – which is being much trumpeted in the
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There’s a fascinating article on the Tax Justice Network blog today, which says: There’s been a fair bit of news about a supposed £3.2 billion windfall for the
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The FT has reported this morning that: Cases of serious tax evasion in the UK have hit their lowest level in the past five years
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The Scotsman has reported: A TEMPORARY employment agency has gone into liquidation owing HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) £58 million in unpaid tax. Edinburgh-based Employ-E,
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The G8 will talk about tax automatic information exchange today. And it will talk about disclosing the beneficial ownership of companies and trusts and I welcome both moves.
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Following Dave Hartnett’s move to Deloitte I made an FoI request. The request and the answer are summarised here:   So, we now know people do leave HMRC
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