As almost all of the media report, former Formula 1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone pleaded guilty to tax fraud yesterday. He won’t go to prison: the
Read the full article…
Increasing the corporation tax rate for the UK’s largest companies could raise £7 billion a year in tax
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note,
Read the full article…
Automatic information exchange works
Over many years, I argued for automatic information exchange of data from tax havens to authorities like HM Revenue & Customs. This means that the
Read the full article…
Reforming the administration of corporation tax in the UK might raise at least £6 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will together make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this note, I suggest that
Read the full article…
The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: the UK needs better estimation of its tax gap to prevent the illicit accumulation of wealth
I have this morning published the next note in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 series. In it, I suggest that it is essential that the UK
Read the full article…
Launching the Taxing Wealth Report 2024
I have this morning begun publishing the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: This introduction says: Brief summary This note summarises the issues that the Taxing Wealth
Read the full article…
The case for investment in HMRC is overwhelming
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales published an article this week in which they noted: Since 10 July 2023, an HMRC taskforce
Read the full article…
HMRC have marked their own homework on the tax gap again and have awarded themselves a nice mark, as usual
Yesterday was HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My standard joke
Read the full article…
HMRC dissembled (at best) when proposing Making Tax Digital, as I exposed in 2017. Now it is time to end this fiasco.
As the FT noted yesterday: HM Revenue & Customs omitted key figures from its business case about how much its Making Tax Digital programme will
Read the full article…
-
Richard Murphy
Read more about me
-
Support This Site
If you like what I do please support me on Ko-fi using credit or debit card or PayPal
-
-
Follow me
Buy me a coffee!