This photo is in a lot of papers this morning: The picture has been issued by H M Revenue & Customs. These people are alleged to
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1,000 new staff are welcome at HMRC – now can we have the other 19,000 please?
The Press Association has reported: Revenue and Customs is to recruit up to 1,000 extra staff to tackle delays in getting through to call centres. The
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Hartnett’s farewell is about as honest as a tax evader’s return
No one seems to have paid much attention to Dave Hartnett’s long awaited retirement from HMRC. He left on 31 July, but nor before posting
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Secrets of the Taxman – Dispatches, Channel 4, 8pm this evening
Dispatches on Channel 4 this evening is on what it calls the Secrets of the Taxman. As the Mail noted about the programme yesterday: When
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Another tax amnesty that just shows HMRC is too understaffed to collect tax
H M Revenue & Customs has announced another tax amnesty – this time for anyone who is a higher rate tax payer who has forgotten to submit a tax
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You couldn’t make it up – new chair of HMRC is former KPMG senior partner
After the scandals surrounding HMRC during the Hartnett era you’d think a new culture was needed in the organisation. One that was strongly pro-tax, against
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For those who argue VAT is simple to collect, a sobering message
This table comes from HMRC’s 2011-12 accounts, just published: Note which tax has by far the biggest write offs: it’s VAT. OK, 200 million was
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HMRC have only got 4,000 companies under investigation? That’s one in 700
The FT’s reported on yesterday’s Parliamentary Accounts Committee hearing on HMRC’s handling of tax cases, noting: More than 4,000 companies are currently under investigation by
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UK Uncut: challenging the dangerously cosy relationship between HMRC and big business
I have already noted that HMRC’s settlement of five major tax cases on little stronger basis than a negotiation recorded on the back of a
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