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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HMRC, whistleblowing, and the need for accountability
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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If the Revenue has abused its powers in pursuing Osita Mba then prosecutions should follow
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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The Public Accounts Committee is fighting 21 century feudalism
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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HMRC and the Big 4: the process of corporate capture of our tax authority has reached danger point
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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Who should be running HMRC if it isn’t to be the Big 4 and ‘senior business people’?
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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HMRC should be run by people who are committed to the social value of tax, not by people who believe it is best avoided
Last week I discussed nPower’s tax. Of course its affairs are all legal, but I made the suggestion that it seems its UK operations are structured to
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The argument that tax avoidance is legal is now dead and gone, for good. The world of tax abuse changed today, for the better.
The new Guidance on the new General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) in UK taxation has been published today. I sat on the committee drafting this guidance,
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KPMG cannot be put in charge of the hen house, let alone HMRC and financial regulation
KPMG are one of the Big 4 firms of accountants. As such they have a lot to answer for. They’ve been guilty of tax crimes in the
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