I gave a presentation at the Social Market Foundation this morning. Xxxxxx Xxxxx was there. She is the Director of xxxxxxxxxxx at HM Revenue &
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It’s extraordinary to note that on the day before the government supposedly announces a big crack down on tax avoidance by the wealthy in the UK it has today
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I have been musing on how and why H M Revenue & Customs might suggest that the 50p tax rate does not work and has only raised a
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H M Revenue & Customs will issue 850,000 penalty notices for late income tax returns this year. It sounds an astonishing number but actually about
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As the BBC reports this morning: Almost 100 permanent posts at local councils are being filled by people paid through limited companies, the BBC has
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I’ve already noted that in 2011/12 H M Revenue & Customs forecasts it will collect £6.7 billion from the 50p tax rate. As their data shows,
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The Treasury Select Committee is issuing a report in the morning on the tax gap. I gave evidence at the hearings that resulted in this
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Perhaps the most important part of my new TUC report on the 50p tax rate is my new estimate of the tax that this rate
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I was very amused to meet David Gauke in London today. He has long avoided such a meeting, but when we walked slap bang into
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