I was amused by David Gauke’s entry in the Accountancy Age financial power list for 2013, in which I also appear. They said of him:
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High-Earning UK Taxpayers Opting Out of Child Benefit Charge Could Lose State Pension Rights
I reproduce the following press release from Accountancy Magazine because I think there’s a public benefit from doing so. I was not aware of this: High-earning child benefit recipients, who have until 6
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If the Danish tax authorities can publish a list of precisely what each company pays in tax, why can’t HMRC do the same?
For the first time ever the Danish tax authorities started publishing information on the taxes paid by all Danish companies today. You can see a sample here.
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Why tackling tax avoidance is vital if we are to have justice in this country
The PCA report’s forward summarises just why tax avoidance is such a problem in this country. The committee says: Transparent, predictable and fair taxation is
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The Public Accounts Committee is being fair: it lacks confidence in HMRC but has no more faith in multinational corporations
The Public Accounts Committee has little faith in H M Revenue & Customs’ willingness to collect corporation tax from multinational corporations, and I think rightly so. In fairness, it has no more faith
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The Public Accounts Committee “lacks confidence” in HMRC
The Public Accounts Committee has held its review into H M Revenue & Customs’ management of the tax affairs of multinational corporations and now it has spoken
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What the Public Accounts Committee had to say about HMRC, Starbucks, Amazon and Google
I suspect most people will not get to see the full press release issued by the Public Accounts Committee on its findings on H M Revenue
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Channel 4 FactCheck provides the evidence that Cameron’s claims on tackling tax avoidance are just a work of fiction
I liked this, from the Channel 4 Factcheck website: The analysis is based on Cameron’s claim that the government were reinvesting £900 million in HMRC
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Average cost of local authority benefit fraud per case, £2,166. Average cost of tax avoidance, per case, £248,780
I thought the astonishing average £248,780 cost of each tax avoidance case identified as outstanding at H M Revenue & Customs by the National Audit Office should be benchmarked for
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