HMRC has said for the last few years that closing the tax gap is its number one objective. I think that appropriate. The tax gap is
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Every one of the 41,000 tax avoiders identified by the National Audit Office is costing the country £248,780
The National Audit Office published the following key facts in its report on H M Revenue & Customs’s management of marketed tax avoidance schemes: I hate to say
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The NAO verdict is that HMRC is in denial about tax avoidance
I was out and about yesterday and so had little time to read or comment upon the National Audit Office (NAO) report on HMRC and marketed tax avoidance schemes.
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Corporate tax avoiders get away with it because HMRC is toothless in its opposition
Private Eye has scored another extraordinary scoop following all the commotion in Britain (and other countries) about corporations like Starbucks, Google and Amazon using tax
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Who leaked on the HSBC Jersey list that’s been supplied to HMRC?
I note in the Telegraph story about HSBC in Jersey that it is said: The Telegraph has established from public records that HSBC has opened
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One one point we were all agreed at the ICAEW last night – we need more tax inspectors
There was a point of clear unanimity at the ICAEW New Era meeting last night (well, all bar David Gauke, I guess it’s fair to
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HMRC want plaudits for collecting a tiny amount of the tax due by multinationals? I don’t think so
I can only presume that Lin Homer, new boss of HMRC, thinks we all have remarkably short memories. She told the Treasury Select Committee this
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What will happen when sometime soon when a large number of our most able tax inspectors will have retired?
As the Telegraph reports: Around one third of staff at HMRC’s enforcement and compliance division will be eligible for retirement in the next five years, figures in
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HMRC says “don’t blame us for tax avoidance by multinationals: we’re only playing by the rules”
HMRC, by some strange coincidence, published a briefing last week called ‘Taxing the profits of multinational businesses’. There’s a copy here. It’s truly appalling. This is the best they
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