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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Nigel Farage wants to abolish the US Internal Revenue Service. Has he got it in for H M Revenue & Customs too?
I don’t often feature the UKIP website here. In fact, I’ve never done so before. But this caught my eye from 2 April: Two of the
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It’s time to shake up the management at HMRC
I have argued for some time that the management of HMRC needs to be radically reformed. My focus has been on the non-executives, whose collective
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Were the Vodafone and Goldman Sachs tax settlements really value for money?
The Guardian makes new revelations this morning on the Vodafone and Goldman Sachs debacles that cam to characterise the closing years of Dave Hartnett’s time
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HMRC’s logic for closing 281 tax advice centres is utterly bankrupt – and all to save less than Starbucks are paying over the next two years
The FT has repeated HMRC’s justification for announcing the close of 281 tax advice centres, saying: HMRC blamed a lack of demand from taxpayers for
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Closing 281 tax advice centres is another sign of the failed management logic of HMRC
The Guardian has reported this morning that: HM Revenue and Customs is shutting all of its 281 inquiry centres, which provide face-to-face help on tax, and replacing them
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Could HMRC be trusted to oversee auditors when it’s now dominated by the Big 4 and commercial interests?
There’s an interesting comment on the blog this morning from Tim Knight that says: It seems to me that the auditor of an enterprise ought to be
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