I mentioned I’d done an FoI request of HMRC earlier today. I’ve now done another: How many people employed by the Large Business Service of HMRC have
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The Guardian has reported, following the Reuters report to which I referred this morning, that: Google and its auditor Ernst & Young will be recalled to parliament
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Many will be familiar by now withe the Google tax story. If you’re not, I’ve written an ebook on it, available here. As I explain there, the
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Following my article in the Guardian yesterday I have made this Freedom of Information request of H M Revenue & Customs this morning: I am not optimistic
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This article of mine has been published on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site this afternoon: The news that HM Revenue & Customs used privileges granted to it under
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The Guardian has just reported that: Tax officials used intrusive investigative powers meant to catch serious criminals to try to prove that a whistleblower who
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Ivan Horrocks, for whose thinking I have much regard, wrote this as a comment on the blog this morning, responding to the story about the Public Accounts
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The Public Accounts Committee has spoken: the relationship between the Big 4 firms of accountants and HMRC is far too close and is a threat
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Discussion of the appointment of nPower’s Volker Beckers as a non-executive director brings back into sharp focus the very odd pattern of appointments to the HMRC board of directors.
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