I will be on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 today at 1pm discussing the fact that HM Revenue & Customs is shutting
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Are HM Revenue & Customs intent on making the right amount of tax as hard as possible?
One of my arguments in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 was that HM Revenue & Customs should be transformed to make the UK tax system
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Removing the domicile rule would be a rare smart move by Jeremy Hunt
As the Guardian reports this morning: Jeremy Hunt is considering scrapping Britain’s non-domiciled tax rules in next week’s budget, it has been reported, in a
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Reforming the organisation, goals and funding of HM Revenue & Customs
I have this morning published the last substantial chapter of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. Some introductory and concluding sections have still to be completed,
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HMRC have deliberately taken tax collection out of our communities and the price that we are paying for that is very high
I am continuing to work on data from HM Revenue & Customs on its accounts, the tax gap and other issues related to its management
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Why can HM Revenue & Customs restate its account for the tax gap fourteen times in fourteen years?
I am now working on the last major section of the Taxing Wealth Report. This refers to the administration of HMRC. My focus was initially
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The current tax scandal was avoidable – and major reform are still required so that small business is taxed fairly
The so-called loan scheme tax charge imposed by HM Revenue & Customs mainly on those who had, in my opinion, undoubtedly engaged in tax avoidance
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Why are HMRC understating the number of Tax Commissioners by 14%?
An, as yet, unpublished part of the Taxing Wealth Report is on the governance of HM Revenue & Customs, which I have long felt to
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Why won’t UK politicians address the biggest part of tax evasion in the UK, which is caused by the absue of limited liability companies due to poor state regulation?
As the Guardian notes this morning: Anyone selling used clothes on Vinted, renting out their home on Airbnb, or getting rid of old camera equipment on
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