Reuters reported this morning on yesterday’s National Audit Office report on Dave Hartnett’s settlement regime at HMRC. As they, kindly, summarise it: While the NAO
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How can HMRC be serious about large company tax abuse when they’re cutting the staff who tackle it by 20%
Graham Black of the Association of Revenue & Customs – the union for senior staff at H M Revenue & Customs – had a first rate
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Hartnett’s worst moment?
This comes from the new HMRC business plan, published today: I’ve just posted on the battle to tax offshore accounts. This was the moment when
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HMRC say their vision is to close the tax gap – by sacking 10,000 of their staff
H M Revenue & Customs published their new business plan this morning. I got sent a copy by a friendly MP. They say their number
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The Association of Revenue & Customs say the government’s anti avoidance rule may actually help the cheats
The Association of Revenue and Customs is the part of the First Division Association the senior staff and managers at H M Revenue & Customs. In
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The UK may have signed a dodgy deal with the Swiss but the Germans are seeing sense
It now looks likely that German opposition party leaders have continued to oppose the signing of a “Rubik” tax deal with Switzerland. As has been
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Tories believe in tax simplification – like heck!
Tax simplification is a Tory mantra. Which is why the Finance Bill, published today is at 670 pages (plus 16 extra pages of padding), longer
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HMRC now subscribes to La-La Laffer and to the idea that companies don’t pay tax
This budget was notable in that for the first time that I can recall we saw the Treasury subscribe to the Laffer curve. As has
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HMRC don’t want to be quoted
I mentioned in two blogs earlier today that I spoke at an event at the Social Market Foundation this morning. In one of those blogs I referred
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